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🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-07-28 · latest 2025-11-17

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  1. …the author written something like this only for (classic) MacOS instead of Windows 95, also yes -- https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/
    comment by jhbadger · 2025-11-17 · in Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows
  2. macintosh.js is an alternative that runs as an Electron app https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js
    comment by flashman · 2025-03-18 · in SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator
  3. macintosh.js ( https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/ ) is an Electron packaged version of an earlier iteration of the BasiliskII Emscripten port.
    comment by mihaip · 2022-12-05 · in Mac OS 9
  4. Reminds of this https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/ Had a lot of fun with this some time ago.
    comment by Not_John · 2022-12-05 · in Mac OS 9
  5. …https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs https://github.com/whscullin/apple2js https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/ https://github.com/1j01/98 Thanks for supplementing my notes stran
    comment by matrix8967 · 2022-10-28 · in A Curated Collection of Websites That Look Like Desktops
  6. Some interactive nostalgia is available here: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/ "This is Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Yes, it's the full thing."
    comment by andreasley · 2021-12-22 · in (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
  7. Cool, but isn't this problematic? Maybe you should have the user provide a ROM https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/blob/master/s...
    comment by mzs · 2020-07-29 · in 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
  8. …of the project source, you can see that the author of this project considers that the "real work": https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/blob/master/C...
    comment by hoistbypetard · 2020-07-29 · in 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
  9. https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/blob/master/C...
    comment by steviedotboston · 2020-07-29 · in 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App