Not gonna lie, this is pretty great. Just like the Performa I used to play this on in 1997.
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Mac OS 8 Emulator Available as a Downloadable App
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And the whole Infogames catalog.Tass Times in Tonetown. Loved that one!
Howa re things in Charm City?
Has anyone figured out how to get the browsers (ex. Netscape) to be able to connect to the modern Mac's network for internet access? Can't figure that one out.
This is awesome!!! So many fond memories of my first forays into Mac! Is anyone else having a hard time launching their own games? I've followed the instructions in Help, but none of my games launch! Any suggestions?
Just got back into The X-Files Game. Tried using Sheepshaver on Catalina, couldn't run it. Kept getting an error when I tried to open up the game. Transferred it to my Windows 10 partition, same files and setup exactly, and worked like a charm. Curious to see how this would work.
So how long before Apple lawyer teams put an end to this emulator........
Because it’s going to happen sooner or later.
Because it’s going to happen sooner or later.
Well, I agree. In many ways, world was so much nicer then.... !
Was going to ask if it had a driver for a USB floppy disk drive.
Those are the OS installer disks.
if you want to get just about any old Mac software visit Macintosh Garden or Macintosh Repository.
I used to use WriteNow to write short pieces back in the System 7/OS 8 days in the 1990s. Loved it. My PowerBook 100's screen died so I can't use WriteNow on that any more. Back then, whenever the little computer store in my local Mall had copies of WriteNow on sale in its Macintosh section I would buy a copy, hoping that it was an upgrade, but it never was. I probably have WriteNow on my old blueberry iMac but I haven't powered that up in a decade. Very slow the last time I used it, with Mac OS 9 and an early version of OS X on it.
I finally switched to Mariner Write, which was very similar to WriteNow and just as fast! But last year Mariner Software pulled Mariner Write off of the Mac App Store when Mac OS Catalina came out, since Write is a 32-bit app. But I still use it occasionally, for old times' sake, on my MacBook Air running Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, and it's still a lot of fun. (I can still run AppleWorks 6.2.9 using Rosetta in Snow Leopard, which is REALLY fun!)
You can still download Mariner Write from the Mariner Software website at
< https://marinersoftware.com/discontinuedproducts/ >
and they link to a TidBits article on running 32-bit apps in Catalina using Parallels. I've been running Mariner Write version 3.8.0 on Snow Leopard, which they don't have among their downloads, but one of those listed should work on any Mac running Mohave or older. Older versions of Mac OS X are probably better, since Mariner hasn't updated most of their software in quite a while.
Since the '90s I've been using Nisus Writer Pro when I need to write something linearly (i.e., not with Scrivener), and it still looks a lot like WriteNow, but it has most of the capabilities of Microsoft Word, which you can ignore and hide if you don't use it. Nisus Writer, available on the Mac App Store, is just as fast as WriteNow was back in the '90s, as are most word processors these days.
I'm going to enjoy using this Mac OS 8 Emulator, for sure!
In the Q&A:
Should this have been a native app?
Absolutely.
Well done by the devs!
Should this have been a native app?
Absolutely.
Well done by the devs!
I’m guessing it is because Basilisk, which this is based on, emulates a 68k processor. Anything beyond 8.1 required a PowerPC processor.
Its amazing that a complete operating system that used to cost thousands of dollars now operates as an app, I think there are some that operates in browser! Just shows you how far we have come...I bet back then they were boasting how powerful this OS "beast"" is.
The other amazing thing is there are coders out there that create decade old OS replicas for kicks, meanwhile people like me struggle to adjust the image placement on a website. Thats just too much effort for "fun"...
To be fair, all advanced OS's crashed back then. I think Mac Systems were much more stable than Windows that turned to blue screen of death for no obvious reason.
The other amazing thing is there are coders out there that create decade old OS replicas for kicks, meanwhile people like me struggle to adjust the image placement on a website. Thats just too much effort for "fun"...
To be fair, all advanced OS's crashed back then. I think Mac Systems were much more stable than Windows that turned to blue screen of death for no obvious reason.
Meh. Unix systems were more advanced, and rarely crashed. Windows and Mac were trying to figure out things Unix had perfected years earlier.
Well that's just absolute nonsense, what kind of whackjob...
Oh. Ok, that makes sense.
