Felix Rieseberg, a senior staff engineer at Slack, has developed an app that emulates Mac OS 8. The software runs on current iterations of macOS as well as Windows and Linux operating systems.
Felix Rieseberg, a senior staff engineer at Slack, has developed an app that emulates Mac OS 8. The software runs on current iterations of macOS as well as Windows and Linux operating systems.
The app is called «macintosh.js.» The «.js» suffix is appropriate, since the entire program is written in JavaScript. It is essentially a virtual machine that emulates a 1990’s pre-PowerPC era Macintosh Quadra 900 equipped with a Motorola processor. The Quadra 900 was launched in 1991, so we’re stepping back almost 30 years.
