• Fully-working Mac OS 8 now available for Windows 10, macOS and Linux

    From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Thu Jul 30 00:47:43 2020
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    https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js from https://betanews.com/2020/07/29/mac-os-8/
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Thu Jul 30 19:16:35 2020
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    On 2020-07-30 05:47:43 +0000, Ant said:

    https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js from https://betanews.com/2020/07/29/mac-os-8/

    Emulators have been around for years, but the fools on various websites
    are giddy at this one, which is reportedly a bit pathetic due to being JavaScript. :-\

    Just download a proper emulator if you want to run old Mac software.


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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Thu Jul 30 17:04:26 2020
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    Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:
    On 2020-07-30 05:47:43 +0000, Ant said:

    https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js from https://betanews.com/2020/07/29/mac-os-8/

    Emulators have been around for years, but the fools on various websites
    are giddy at this one, which is reportedly a bit pathetic due to being JavaScript. :-\

    Just download a proper emulator if you want to run old Mac software.

    Which emulator?
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Fri Jul 31 16:21:06 2020
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    On 2020-07-30 22:04:26 +0000, Ant said:
    Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:
    On 2020-07-30 05:47:43 +0000, Ant said:

    https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js from
    https://betanews.com/2020/07/29/mac-os-8/

    Emulators have been around for years, but the fools on various websites
    are giddy at this one, which is reportedly a bit pathetic due to being
    JavaScript. :-\

    Just download a proper emulator if you want to run old Mac software.

    Which emulator?

    For Mac users there is Basilisk II (which the slower JavaScript version
    is based on) or Sheepshaver. Both can run OS 7 to OS 9, and the various
    old Mac apps, with better performance and better compatiblity. For
    System 6 you can use Mini vMac instead.

    For Windoze or Linix users ... well, who really cares, but there is
    probably something out there.


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  • From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Fri Jul 31 18:44:19 2020
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    In comp.sys.mac.vintage, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2020-07-30 22:04:26 +0000, Ant said:
    Which emulator?
    For Mac users there is Basilisk II (which the slower JavaScript version
    is based on) or Sheepshaver. Both can run OS 7 to OS 9, and the various
    ...
    For Windoze or Linix users ... well, who really cares, but there is
    probably something out there.

    I have used Basilisk II for System 7 under Linux and had it mostly work.
    Some programs sensitive to colors available (eg games) had issues, which
    I suspect were related to 256 color mode emulated under a 24 bit
    windowing system.

    I'm blanking on the name now, but there was an old commercial product
    for Windows for System 6 that was eventually made free. I've tested it,
    but not used it much.

    Ah, Wikipedia search to the rescue: Executor.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

    I'd really be interested in an A/UX emulator, but not enough to buy
    Apple hardware to run it on.

    Elijah
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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sat Aug 1 02:22:59 2020
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    In article <eli$2007311444@qaz.wtf>, Eli the Bearded
    <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

    I'm blanking on the name now, but there was an old commercial product
    for Windows for System 6 that was eventually made free. I've tested it,
    but not used it much.

    Ah, Wikipedia search to the rescue: Executor.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

    executor was awful.

    I'd really be interested in an A/UX emulator, but not enough to buy
    Apple hardware to run it on.

    why?
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  • From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sat Aug 1 20:48:05 2020
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    In comp.sys.mac.vintage, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
    I'd really be interested in an A/UX emulator, but not enough to buy
    Apple hardware to run it on.
    why?

    Because my first Unix system was A/UX and I'd like to (a) revisit it and
    see how it feels now that I'm ~ 30 years more experienced with Unix, and
    (b) mount my A/UX disk images and see if there are any files on there
    that I would like to keep but don't have archived in other formats.

    I was pretty good about using tar balls to move stuff around and keep it
    in cross-system usable format, but disk was tighter then and I may have
    not gotten everything.

    Elijah
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sun Aug 2 10:13:23 2020
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    On 2020-08-01 20:48:05 +0000, Eli the Bearded said:

    In comp.sys.mac.vintage, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
    I'd really be interested in an A/UX emulator, but not enough to buy
    Apple hardware to run it on.
    why?

    Because my first Unix system was A/UX and I'd like to (a) revisit it and
    see how it feels now that I'm ~ 30 years more experienced with Unix, and
    (b) mount my A/UX disk images and see if there are any files on there
    that I would like to keep but don't have archived in other formats.

    I was pretty good about using tar balls to move stuff around and keep it
    in cross-system usable format, but disk was tighter then and I may have
    not gotten everything.

    Elijah
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    has an account at panix.com because panix was originally an A/UX based service

    I don't know anything about it so can't vouch for how good or otherwise
    it is, but there is "Shoebill" (hasn't been updated since 2015) which
    is an A/UX emulation available for MacOS X 10.8 and the slightly older
    0.0.4 version is also available for Windows and Linux. <https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill/releases/>


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  • From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sun Aug 2 02:02:51 2020
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    In comp.sys.mac.vintage, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    I don't know anything about it so can't vouch for how good or otherwise
    it is, but there is "Shoebill" (hasn't been updated since 2015) which
    is an A/UX emulation available for MacOS X 10.8 and the slightly older
    0.0.4 version is also available for Windows and Linux. <https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill/releases/>

    I'm aware of Shoebill, I didn't get it to work when I last tried.

    Elijah
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    admittedly has not tried recently
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  • From Aramis to Eli the Bearded on Sat Jan 23 05:20:30 2021
    Re: Re: Fully-working Mac OS 8 now available for Windows 10, macOS and Lin
    By: Eli the Bearded to comp.sys.mac.vintage on Sun Aug 02 2020 02:02 am

    Thats just awesome to hear. Going back to those vintage operatings systems is truly a nostalgic trip down memory lane.