Jul 29, 2020 19:02:00

'Macintosh.js' that can emulate Mac OS 8 that appeared in 1997 appears

GitHub is a software framework of open source developed '

Electron using a', of Apple, which was released in 1997 OS ' Mac OS 8 has been published has been to the' emulate 'macintosh.js'. Note that macintosh.js was developed by Felix Rieseberg, who works as an app developer at Slack .

GitHub-felixrieseberg/macintosh.js: A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron.I'm sorry.
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

You can download the installer from 'Downloads' in the middle of the above page. This time, click 'Setup, 64-bit' to download the 64-bit installer for Windows. The size of the installer was 239MB and it took over 10 minutes to download.

Double-click 'macintoshjs-1.0.2-setup-x64' of the downloaded installer to start it.

When the installation is complete, 'macintosh.js' will start automatically. The following is the startup screen of 'macintosh.js'.

First, click 'Apple System Profiler' from the Apple icon in the upper left of the screen.

Then the system specifications were displayed like this. According to this, macintosh.js emulates Mac OS 8.1 running on the Macintosh Quadra 900 . The CPU of Macintosh Quadra 900 is MC68040 of Motorola, the clock frequency is 40MHz, and the memory (RAM) is 256MB. Compared with the latest CPU etc. at the time of article creation, the difference in specifications is obvious.

To close the window, click the red frame on the upper left.

In the case of the latest

macOS Big Sur , you can close/shrink/enlarge the window using the red/yellow/green buttons in the upper left corner of the window, similar to Mac OS 8.

You can use some games, apps and movies on macintosh.js. For example, games are stored in a folder called 'Games', and you can play ' Dungeons & Dragons ' ' Oregon Trail ' and demo versions ' Damage Incorporated ' ' Alley 19 Bowling ' ' Duke Nukem 3D ' ' Civilization II '. ”In total.

However, when I actually started it, I could not play due to lack of memory across the board.

In the 'App' folder, Adobe software and multiple web browsers are available.

Succeeded in running the tryout version of 'Adobe Illustrator 5.5'.

Web browsers such as

Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are also available. However, when I try to open the website with these browsers, I get an error. According to developer Rieseberg, 'The web 30 years ago was completely different from the current one, so even Google could not open it', so it is impossible to actually browse the web.