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bensyverson 8 hours ago [-]
This is fantastic. To me, this is one of the greatest side-effects of agentic coding; adding new functionality to vintage, abandoned or obsolete hardware. It gives me hope for a solarpunk future where e-waste gets a more functional second life.
bbbbbbbbbbbvyt 6 hours ago [-]
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manytimesaway 8 hours ago [-]
So, making obsolete hardware relevant by using the technology that's accelerating their "irrelevanceness" ?
chongli 4 hours ago [-]
There's no acceleration here. Vintage Macs are 100% obsolete. They can't get any more obsolete than that. They can, however, become MORE relevant for hobbyists through the development of new software for them.
What could be better than that?
pndy 5 hours ago [-]
You are aware that there's a huge retrocomputing community around the world that with hearts and passion preserves old machines and software?
yjftsjthsd-h 6 hours ago [-]
How is AI making old hardware obsolete faster?
pqtyw 4 hours ago [-]
If anything it's the opposite (by making new hardware unaffordable)
bensyverson 6 hours ago [-]
Life isn't black & white
hyperhello 7 hours ago [-]
To me it proves that a technology can be understood and implemented by one person.
prokopton 7 hours ago [-]
Can hardware became more obsolete?
addaon 4 hours ago [-]
Yes. Discrete 74 series TTL logic ICs were quite obsolete; CMOS versions replaced them. But now with new generations that are not level-compatible with the TTL versions, the TTL versions are even more obsolete.
Cyan488 10 hours ago [-]
When I owned a iMac G3, the Classilla browser was surprisingly good. Looks like development ended in 2021.
Also, the branding was "Mac OS 9".
felixding 9 hours ago [-]
Exactly. I don't know why some people'd change the branding.
ndiddy 7 hours ago [-]
Apple keeps changing the name of their desktop operating system, so Hacker News has some sort of filter to automatically change "Mac OS" to whatever the newest name is in order to fit Apple's brand guidelines. This has the consequence of making some submission titles read as anachronistic when the sumission is about an old OS version.
Springtime 9 hours ago [-]
The project didn't, only the HN submission title.
gattilorenz 5 hours ago [-]
Not the submission title, just the automatically revised submission title. Pretty sure I submitted it with the proper casing/spacing
grishka 2 hours ago [-]
HN has this thing where it would automatically "fix" submission titles.
manoDev 7 hours ago [-]
That's impressive, too bad modern web requires more than 2000x the transistor density to run JS at decent speed. We really f*** up.
pndy 5 hours ago [-]
Anyone had luck running it under infinitemac? I can't boot anything beyond 9.0 and it throws some error upon launch - seems it needs at least 9.1.
mplsllc 4 hours ago [-]
It needs carbonlib - is that installed on the OS? I was able to get it to work on 9.1 with the last released CarbonLib.
pndy 4 hours ago [-]
Yes, some older version but I've grabbed carbonlib 1.6.1 from macintoshrepository and that helped with launching MacSurf under that premade 9.0 machine
simgt 9 hours ago [-]
Cool! I've been wondering for some time if a good low-distraction but pleasant environment could be an old Mac OS on a (good looking) Hackintosh. The UI was baked with UX research at least.
Wowfunhappy 7 hours ago [-]
It's a significantly newer Mac OS than Mac OS 9, but this is basically my life. Mavericksforever.com.
simgt 3 hours ago [-]
That's awesome, thanks for sharing.
grishka 2 hours ago [-]
I always enjoy it when someone makes "obsolete" hardware natively talk to modern network services that it was never meant to talk to. And bringing an entire browser to a system this old is a serious achievement. I don't own any hardware that can run classic Mac OS, but I'm gonna try it on an emulator later, really curious how it handles several of my own websites.
Though the fact that the author uses AI is kinda meh.
LoganDark 5 hours ago [-]
That would be "Mac OS 9"
gcp123 10 hours ago [-]
Freaking love it! Gonna put this on my 1998 Bondi Blue iMac G3 today.
SoftTalker 4 hours ago [-]
Let us know how many minutes it runs before you get a system crash and a sad-face Mac icon.
Torwald 5 hours ago [-]
This is what the Amiga is missing!
mplsllc 4 hours ago [-]
Have you tried the Netsurf port for it?
hyperhello 10 hours ago [-]
Absolutely love it.
iwontberude 8 hours ago [-]
Time to fire up the ol PowerMac G4 MDD (last native support for Mac OS 9)
mplsllc 4 hours ago [-]
Hey everyone! This is my project, I've been working really hard (yes using AI to help) for about two months straight now. I am not just letting it be, I am going to keep tooling with it every day to make it better and better.
The latest version uses real, third-party verified, TLS 1.3 so I am pushing all the limits that I can. Thanks for sharing!
gazook89 3 hours ago [-]
Always surprising but fun to see a "MPLS" MN state flag graphic in some random github readme. Then I see the username "mplsllc" :) Hello neighbor!
What could be better than that?
Also, the branding was "Mac OS 9".
Though the fact that the author uses AI is kinda meh.
The latest version uses real, third-party verified, TLS 1.3 so I am pushing all the limits that I can. Thanks for sharing!