It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux… and JavaScript. I put an entire 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 into an Electron app, together with a bunch of apps and games. It’s even got pre-installed software like Oregon Trail, so you don’t have to worry about searching for long-defunct companies to use your new-to-you Macintosh. He has lovingly packaged an emulated Macintosh Quadra running Mac OS 8.1 into an Electron app, the same technology that packages Slack’s desktop app, and many, many others. Now you can relive that horror, thanks to Felix Rieseberg, a developer at Slack. Mac OS 8, for example, was a perfect example of both ’90s style and digital function, with solid-looking window frames around programs, icons that actually looked like things, and a lovely bomb that appeared when your Macintosh inevitably crashed. That’s the design language of making digital things look like their real-world counterparts, in case you didn’t already know. It wasn’t always like that, though, with Apple leaning heavily into skeuomorphism for most of its lifetime. Nowadays, the operating system on Apple’s computers is a slick, well-oiled system of mostly-flat design.
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