

Oddly enough, it runs on PPC Macs, in addition to Intel Macs. In the past, hobbyists have decided to make classic versions of macOS available on modern devices, such as the Internet Archive collection of classic Macintosh software that can be emulated in a browser. Q is a great lightweight CPU emulator for OS X.
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Mac OS 8 was the holdover from Copland OS, and is credited with helping modernize Mac OS while Apple developed Mac OS X. Mired in delays, missed deadlines and dysfunctional management, Copland was never marketed and is considered one of the biggest IT project failures in history. Originally released in 1997, Mac OS 8 represented a major overhaul of classic Mac OS software and incorporated many technologies developed for Apple’s canceled Copland operating system. Although Internet Explorer and Netscape are preinstalled, Rieseberg says the versions are so old that “you couldn’t even open Google.” The app can also run classic games like Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Dungeons & Dragons, namely, Oregon Trail, Alley 19 Bowling and Damage Incorporated. The macintosh.js app includes a number of apps and games from a 1997 MacWorld demo CD, as well as Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, and Apple’s Webpage Building Kit. The project has not been approved by Apple and is provided for educational purposes only. The application, titled “macintosh.js”, is written entirely in JavaScript and uses a virtual machine to emulate a Macintosh Quadra 900 with a Motorola processor used by Apple prior to its transition to IBM’s PowerPC architecture.

Having previously turned Windows 95 into an application in 2018, Rieseberg focused on transforming a 1991 Macintosh Quadra complete with Mac OS 8.1 into a single Electron application. Unlike VMware and parallels, which use a combination of virtualization (abstracting the physical devices on your Mac) and emulation (using software. Slack developer Felix Rieseberg turned Mac OS 8 into a single downloadable app for modern macOS, Windows, and Linux devices.

Mac OS 8 is now available as an app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, reports The edge.
