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infinitemac.orgthe infinitemac.org home page, a short blurb about running any classic mac os in a browser, then a timeline starting at 1984 with system 1.0 drawn as a beige compact mac with a run buttonfurther down the timeline, system 2.0 and 2.1 under 1985 and system 3.0 under 1986, each a beige mac with its release notes on screensystem 1.0 booted inside a drawn beige mac, a grey dithered desktop with the apple menu bar, a system disk, a welcome file and the trashthe floppies drawer slid up over the running mac, listing disk images to mount under developer, education and games, from macintosh pascal to dark castle

1 of 4 · 1984

2 of 4 · later years

3 of 4 · booted

4 of 4 · load various floppies

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jun 2021 · web

Infinite Mac

Mihai Parparita

run every classic mac OS in your browser

maker’s words

It’s a golden age of emulation. Between increasing CPU power, WebAssembly, and retrocomputing being so popular The New York Times is covering it, it’s never been easier to relive your 80s/90s/2000s nostalgia.

Mihai Parparita, 31 mar 2022 · source

Infinite Mac has a new home at infinitemac.org. Using a new Emscripten port of Mini vMac, it is now able to run almost every notable version of Mac OS, from 1984’s System 1.0 to 2000’s Mac OS 9.0.4.

Mihai Parparita, 28 mar 2023 · source

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also: writeup ↗ · all the blog posts ↗ · source code ↗ · a similar project for PCs ↗

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