My Favourite Computer, an Old Mac

• OpenEmu

  225 15,763 8.2 Swift

  🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

  

A slightly more modern equivalent of this is a 2009 Mac mini running Snow Leopard. You can find these machines for around $50 on eBay and they are very snappy.

I am waiting for someone to start a business turning old Mac mini's into dedicated retro gaming machines. This would be done by pre-installing OpenEMU and HaloMD on one partition, and Mac OS 9 on another partition to run old games like Lemmings, etc although emulation could also work for some of these.

https://openemu.org/

https://www.halomd.net/

• webone

  35 457 8.4 C#

  HTTP 1.x proxy that makes old web browsers usable again in the Web 2.0 world.

I’ve got the Mac hooked up via an esp8266 running a SLIP server. Most of what I do on it web wise is through Gopher, it’s just the best overall solution for a computer of that age imo.

Things like HNGopher and 68k.news are great, those kinds of services make it very usable even in the modern world. I had no idea lynx ever had a 68k release, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

I have an HTTP proxy setup[1] which will downgrade https to http so that Netscape on the Mac can load sites, if for some reason I need to do so.

Thanks again for the links. Someday I’d like to get a version of my site on gopher too.

[1] https://github.com/atauenis/webone

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• aamath

  2 10 10.0 C++

  ASCII art mathematics

What I miss from Gopherpedia it's math support. It if had some support thru aamath it would be heaven.

https://github.com/gchudnov/aamath

• payphone

  6 246 1.4 Perl

  notes and code for my payphone project

I hope the author has found their way to joshua stein's blog: https://jcs.org/

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