news-os
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
news-os
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MAME 0.247
No problem. It is less straightforward, but if you are handy with NetBSD, you can also use this script to build a hard drive image for 68k NEWS (4.1C): https://github.com/briceonk/news-os/tree/master/src/news-inst
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MacX turns Mac OS 9 into a pretty good X Server!
Yeah, as i find things I post them here. I also (slowly) have been working on a branch of MAME to emulate it. I've only gotten the monitor ROM booting though, so it is very, very incomplete.
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What are some alternatives?
azpainter - Full color painting software for Unix-like systems for illustration drawing. This is un-official little fixed repository for package maintainers of image editor AzPainter (based on "mlib" toolkit). Official repository - http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/azpainter.html
IBM-PC-BIOS - This is a reconstruction of the original 1981-82 IBM PC BIOS source code using scanning and transcription of the BIOS listings found in the IBM Technical Reference manuals.
pwntools - CTF framework and exploit development library
USB4VC - USB Keyboard/Mouse/Gamepads on Retro Computers!
millfork - Millfork: a middle-level programming language targeting 6502- and Z80-based microcomputers and home consoles
AgonORIGINS - A stand-alone, BASIC-programmable microcontroller and microcomputer in one! The fastest, cheapest, most hackable 8-bit computer ever.