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Mihai Parparita Mar 28, 2023

For #MARCHintosh this year I’m launching https://infinitemac.org. It features runnable versions of almost every classic System Software/Mac OS release, from 1984’s System 1.0 to 2000’s Mac OS 9.0.4.

This involved porting another emulator to the web (Mini vMac), tracking down 35 install disks, and the usual fighting with file systems. The blog post at https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.html has more details.

Infinite Mac

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.

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Eli the Bearded Mar 29, 2023

@mihaip Wow, impressive.

Looks like Apple's dabbling with A/UX is not "notable". Or more likely, just too hard.

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Mihai Parparita

@elithebearded it’s definitely notable, but would require a different emulator. https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/129 is tracking this if you’d like to get updates.

A/UX · Issue #129 · mihaip/infinite-mac

I'd love to run A/UX through this! Unlike NeXTSTEP, this is actual Mac OS.

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Eli the Bearded Mar 29, 2023

@mihaip Yeah, Shoebill never ran for me, and thus I pegging it as too difficult. Last Mac I owned ran A/UX 2. (Since then I've used a bunch of newer Macs, but all $WORK property.)