larrybiggs
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)The best-kept retro-mac secret is that the following web sites exist:
https://system6.app/
https://system7.app/
https://macos8.app/
https://macos9.app/
If you ever wanted to play with an old MacOS, this is the least effort to get started.
By the way: Read the post-it notes on the screens (aka "Stickies"). You can work with your own files in this emulator, and you can even play networked games among a group of friends. It's really awesome!
Josh Justice@uliwitness the marathon games work networked on here?? aaaaah!!! 😍
Kaiyalai@uliwitness oh wow! I wonder if I could use that to read my old floppies from the Mac II SI I used while in high school.
Manton Reece@uliwitness That is great. Love that this is available so easily on the web.
Aslak Raanes@manton @uliwitness Ooh, AppleTalk zones! https://retrocomputing.system7.app/
> Networking is supported!
>
> Visting the same subdomain of the site as your friends (e.g. https://office.system7.app or https://thelair.system7.app) will automatically create an AppleTalk zone where you can interact with each other.
>
> Files can be shared between instances, and muti-player games like Marathon, Bolo and Strategic Conquest will also work.
12pt9@uliwitness omg Claris 😭
@12pt9 I loved their stylish app logos with the sketchy icon and the color splash behind it <3
sxpert@uliwitness wow… 😎👍🏻
Brian Moon
John Moltz
Rudie V.@uliwitness bookmarking all of these! Wow, what a trip down memory lane!
oshy
surching4me@uliwitness This is AMAZING!!!! so nostalgic!
Robert Petersen 
Charles Randall@uliwitness @desplesda what do you think would happen if I dug up my old system 7 code for software rendering 3d to the raw framebuffer address and ran it on this?
solient@solient @uliwitness @desplesda I'm actually pretty sure I lost all that code unless I manage to find a burned cd backup, but I'll keep an eye out for it.
@charlesrandall @uliwitness @desplesda I probably still have Director projectors on Zips at my parents place. xD
@solient @uliwitness @desplesda if you have data on zip disks no you don't
lol
@charlesrandall @uliwitness @desplesda it was transferred to cds years ago but those have probably bitrotted. Data prior to 2003 is… spotty.
@solient @uliwitness @desplesda pretty sure zip disks are the only 'write only' media that ever existed
@charlesrandall @uliwitness @desplesda they did have the highest failure rate of any media I've used other than IBM DeskStar drives.
@charlesrandall (deskstar failure rate for me was 100% out of a sample size of four or five; I had zips that were still readable when I stopped using them)
Peter Lustig@uliwitness Cool stuff. Much appreciated.
Ænðr E. Feldstraw@uliwitness Oh, wow. Nostalgia overload. Nice find! Thank you!
VirtualWolf@uliwitness Oh my god this is amazing!
Michael Seager
bazcurtis@uliwitness @mcelhearn I had forgotten how menus didn’t stay open, you had to click and drag, the release.
Mike Schnier
ContextSans@uliwitness It includes unlocked versions of Oregon Trail AND Secret of Monkey Island. Well there goes my productivity for the next few days :)
Cookies@uliwitness i tryed that before (look at my older posts)
Kevin Karhan 
@uliwitness is there also a #sys5init.app ?
Kit Rhett Aultman@uliwitness Ho lee smoke
Josh@uliwitness What on earth... This is amazing! 🤯😮
ĸurth
Simon Cox 
@uliwitness Wow - I’d completely forgotten about the extension icons showing up on boot!! Love it. Will have to unpack my old SE20 and have a play.
Mihai Parparita@uliwitness And now there's just one URL to remember: https://infinitemac.org
(more details at https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.html)
john spurling@uliwitness System 6! Font/DA Mover in the house!
Zperretta@uliwitness Holy shit that's cool
Rev. GothAlice@uliwitness See also: UTM (boxed-up QEMU) with pre-built images available: https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/mac-os-9-2-1 (PPC MacOS 9.2.1)
It's a valuable part of my archivist tool belt. Wish someone'd port SPICE tools to it, though! :glares at self not having sufficient free time:
@alice What's a SPICE?
@uliwitness "Guest tools" for virtualized operating systems. Provides things like file sharing, clipboard sharing, improved cursor integration (QEMU PPC is a bit rough without it; "cursor lock" and all that jazz) better I/O, possibly even including a "balloon" memory implementation? (Not sure about that last.)
@alice Ah, interesting. Been wishing for something like that in many Classic emus.