The series of Rieseberg’s transformations date back to 2018 when he first transformed the old classic Windows 95 into an app. Now going one step ahead with his genius-ness, he has turned the entire 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 into a single Electron app which includes all the apps and games which were originally a part of the operating system back in the days. Much of the credit has also been given to the old MacWorld demo CD from 1997 that has helped Felix a great deal in making this all a possibility.
Called as the macintosh.js app, the foundation of it is set on JavaScript. The app also uses a virtual machine that imitates the working of Macintosh Quadra 900 with the Motorola CPU - yes, the ones Apple used to operate with before moving to IBM’s PowerPC chips.
Once installed on your PCs, Mac or Linux, users would be able to enjoy a blast from the past in the form of games like Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Dungeons & Dragons, Namely, Oregon Trail, Alley 19 Bowling, and Damage Incorporated. There are also pre-installed apps inside like Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, and Apple’s Web Page Construction Kit.
Even though you will get the Internet Explorer and Netscape as a part of the app but according to Rieseberg, some of you might not get to open the softwares because the versions are too old.
Nevertheless, it still is a remarkable achievement to port 90s version of macOS and make it run in Javascript as well.
If any of you wants to try out the app for a trip down the memory lane then, fortunately, the complete versions are less than 250MB and you can download the app from GitHub.

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