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Mac OS 8 Emulator Available as a Downloadable App

Aston441 said:
wow

I think i still have everything saved off my old PowerBook 165...

Wonder if I can get it up and running again.

I turned off off for the last time about 1999.

America was so much nicer then. Wonderful beyond what those who never experienced it can imagine.

Before the shift.
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Don't worry, America is going to be great again soon ;)
 
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ksgant said:
I'm old enough to remember System 6 and later it's "Multifinder", which allowed the running of two programs at a time. Then the complete mess with multiple crashes with System 7. When System 8....sorry, "OS 8" came along, it fixed a lot of things, but it was still coopertative multitasking with no memory protections, which meant if something crashed, it could crash the entire system. So it was always "save save save" when working on anything. Do something, save. Do something a little more. Save. Etc etc.

We didn't get true multitasking until OS X, which was like a breath of fresh air, but even than took time to get everything over to it. And I realized I'm really old.
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Oh my gosh, are iPadOS/iOS based on System 6????
 
These good ole’ times are coming back when the US decouples from China…

jlocker said:
My largest Apple computer sale at the store was to our main heart surgeon in our town in 1983.

2 Apple LISA computers $20,000
2 Apple Profile 5mb external hard drives $7000
2 Apple Imagewriter printers $1300

$260,000 in today dollars and people think the new Mac Pro cost a lot of money :)
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Only reason I could think of is running Spaceward Ho! Very addictive game…

00001000bit said:
Might be fun to fire up for nostalgia. A few years back I had a System 7.5 image running in BasiliskII so I could recover old files created in WriteNow (loved that app) and get them into something portable to modern systems.
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Tried it out, very cool. But dang, that's a lot of CPU usage. Probably equivalent to a million times what my old PowerMac that ran this OS did. I'm guessing CPU sleep cycles weren't really implemented, so it's just spinning all the time, plus of course JS.
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CarlJ said:
Meh. Unix systems were more advanced, and rarely crashed. Windows and Mac were trying to figure out things Unix had perfected years earlier.
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Well, except for a GUI.
 
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I found 8 and 9 very buggy on my iMacs etc but 7 was solid as a rock on my lc2 then q840av

I particularly loved Claris works , best multi use app ever

Did things I can’t do nowadays tbh . Floor plans etc were easy-easy in the draw app . Miss it tbh 😰
 
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centauratlas said:
Strategic Conquest.
Wizardry.

I have Basilisk to run things like that occasionally. I don't have a copy of Wizardry anymore though.

Now we just need "Magic Windows" word processor for the Apple ][ from 1980 or 1981...
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Yes, I just got Strategic Conquest running. Its hardly playable due to the screen...it is too small for me to really see what I am doing. But I am a step closer.

Is there a way to make the screen bigger...it's like 1/3 of my actual screen size.
 
CarlJ said:
Meh. Unix systems were more advanced, and rarely crashed. Windows and Mac were trying to figure out things Unix had perfected years earlier.
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You are correct, but Unix was not a home operating system. In fact, its 2020 and almost all people don't know how to run Unix system, not even Linux Mint!
 
CarlJ said:
And yet, here in 2020, nearly everyone runs Unix (Android, iOS, macOS), they just don’t know it.
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Aha... its not Unix...its Unix-Like systems, even then its based on it with a lot of additions and alterations. Would FreeBSD Foundation accept MacOS customers as BSD users?
 
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CarlJ said:
And yet, here in 2020, nearly everyone runs Unix (Android, iOS, macOS), they just don’t know it.
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Android is built atop of a modified Linux kernel. Unix-like but not Unix ;)

macOS and iOS are built atop of XNU, which is a modified Mach kernel with BSD components. Since Leopard the BSD subsystem has received Unix 3 certification but it’s not entirely accurate to call XNU a ‘Unix’. The BSD sub-system used to be an optional install and wasn’t necessary for Mac OS X to run Carbon and Cocoa apps.

Anyway this tech jargon means nothing to users. As Steve said, macOS is built from the user perspective and then work backwards from there.
 
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RobertMartens said:
That's what MAGA means? 1999 and President Clinton and Mac OS8? Who knew?
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maybe you're not a fan of Clinton, it doesn't matter

the fundamental changes were starting to occur, but most of us were oblivious still, we couldn't yet see what was starting to happen

we had warnings from some prophets who were called kooks at the time
 
Does anyone know how to get .md5 files to run on this? Many of the files on Macintosh repository are in that format. Also Cant get the .ISO files to run either although it says ISO files are mounted
 
Has anybody managed to install Office 98 in this? I have a ton of writing as Word documents in a format that can no longer be opened. It would be a miracle if I can get Word to install. I've found old installers in repositories online, but none will install. Has anyone done anything like this with Macintosh.js or the other emulators out there (Sheepsaver, etc.)
Thanks!
 
I have bad news. You wouldn't want to take the Oregon Trail today. Just saying.
Just like I wouldn't want to walk to Baltimore's Inner Harbor today either from my birth place. :D

jlc1978 said:
MAME now supports the ][gs. Those were great games.
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I loved Tass Times in Tone Town by the way. I sold my IIgs to a family with a handicapped child for extra education at home and there was so much Apple II education software out there back in the day when Apple cared about education. Now its just an afterthought.
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I know I'm being pedantic, but the name was System 8. Apple didn't use the Mac OS name until pretty recently.
 
The only thing I remember about the IIgs (why do folks insist on using [] brackets when it was never done that way? BTW the //e was written that way, not ][e) were the many ports of //e titles that ran too fast to be playable:

1. Spell-a-vator
2. The Oregon Trail
3. Number Munchers
4. Odell Lake
5. Jenny's Journeys

If only a proper IIgs emulator existed that made all those crunchy disk sounds. Including that awful one that happened if you pulled the disk out while in-use!
 
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