Mac OS 9

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  • macintosh.js

    🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry.

    macintosh.js (https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/) is an Electron packaged version of an earlier iteration of the BasiliskII Emscripten port.

  • infinite-mac

    A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want

    I'm the creator of the site, thanks for the submission.

    This is an in-progress port of the SheepShaver emulator to WebAssembly/Emscripten, https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/34 is tracking the remaining work.

    If you're interested in running older Mac software in the browser, the BasiliskII-based sites at https://system7.app/ and https://macos8.app/ may be better bets. They will boot faster and have fewer compatibility issues (especially System 7).

    The main thing that Mac OS 9/SheepShaver brings is PowerPC support. There is also a variant of System 7 for PowerPC with more esoteric mid-90s Apple projects like OpenDoc and QuickDraw GX installed available at https://system7.app/?domain=system7-ppc.app.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • endless-sky

    Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

  • alephone

    Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie’s Marathon 2 game engine.

    Just FYI, anyone who wants to play any of the Marathon games, be advised that they have been available open source for a long while now:

    https://alephone.lhowon.org/

  • nomulus

    Top-level domain name registry service on Google App Engine

    Indeed that is correct. For more information see:

    https://registry.google

    https://nomulus.foo (our open source software that runs our TLDs)

  • WorkOS

    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.

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