Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU
The magazine archives linked from the article really take me back. I like how colorful they are. I like the weird studio photography they would do with a bunch of hardware on weird pedestals.https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine?&sort=datehttps://archive.org/details/macaddict?&sort=dateThis was how we knew what Apple was doing, how to keep computers running, etc.There are some things I really miss about the classic Mac era. Computers were cool. The entire experience of using a computer was very consistent. Poking around in MacsBug or ResEdit was interesting. Install an app by dragging it to your hard drive, uninstall it by dragging it to the trash. Word 5.1a, a.k.a. the best version of Microsoft Word ever made. Still waiting for Google Docs to catch up in terms of feature parity, it’s not even close.Plenty of things I don’t miss. No memory protection. Cooperative multitasking. Open Transport. As much as Unix is a bit of a mess, it doesn’t have any of these problems.The only reason I still go back is for the games. A few of the old games can be played on new computers—if it ever got a PC port, there’s a chance you can run it in DOSBox, but the Mac exclusives got left behind, and a bunch of them were just cute little shareware pieces that never had a bunch of money behind them.