(Confident nerds who want to revive Netscape Navigator can play around with the Web Sharing Server inside the emulator. And while Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer come preinstalled in the emulator, they can’t connect to the web or work with modern web pages. It’s a JavaScript app, so it’s naturally clunky and inefficient. Considering that the free macintosh.js comes with a copy of Photoshop 3.0.5, it’s quite a good bargain.īut you may not want to use macintosh.js as your daily driver. That’s around $13,600 if you adjust for inflation. Launch aiStarter (Windows & GNU/Linux only) On a Mac, aiStarter will start automatically when you log in to your account and it will run invisibly in. Accordingly, Shockwave Player currently runs well on Windows 7 64-bit using any of these 32-bit browsers. Andrew HeinzmanĪccording to Wikipedia, the Quadra 900 launched with an introductory price of $7,200 in 1991. For example, most browsers on Windows are 32-bit (such as Internet Explorer 32-bit, Firefox, and Chrome), and they run well on 64-bit Windows with Shockwave Player today. This 24-year-old copy of Photoshop feels surprisingly modern.
You can even transfer files between your computer and the macintosh.js emulator, or mount a disk to the emulator for a hardcore file-transferring experience. “Turning off” macintosh.js from its file directory saves your virtual desktop, so you won’t lose your fancy drawings or word documents.
It works flawlessly with OS 8-compatible software and comes with Oregon Trail, Photoshop 3.0.5, and other apps preinstalled. Browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer Firefox. If you want to run Internet Explorer on Mac without installing Windows on it, some cloud browsing solutions allow you to access websites in IE from within any. But like Felix Rieseberg’s Windows 95 emulator, macintosh.js works incredibly well. Windows: Macintosh OS X: WSFTP CuteFTP Transmit Fetch AceFTP Filezilla. The macintosh.js app is available on Github and works on macOS, Windows, and Linux.įrankly, the idea of emulating a 29-year-old computer within JavaScript is terrible and ridiculous.
Thanks to Slack developer Felix Rieseberg, you can now run Mac OS 8 on a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 in a single JavaScript app.
Forget the complicated virtual machines and OS installers.