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Could you imagine if, back in the day, someone told you that you could run a full operating system in an emulator, fully within a web browser? Today, we're taking a look at the Infinite Mac, a collection of 35 installs of every significant Mac OS through the year 2000, fully bootable and emulated within the browser!
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@derekdziobek5998 Год назад

I like how the virtual screen bezel changes to match the OS being emulated. That's a nice touch.

@hydroponicgard Год назад

I love the "high budget" special effects, it makes your videos more charming, and feel like you are just having fun! Keep it up Action Retro! :D

@burrocakes8048 Год назад

I expected a foot to drop out of the top of the video screen. :D

@charlesswansonii9319 Год назад

Marathon multiplayer between Infinite Mac instances would be amazing to see.

@thargok Год назад

Warcraft 2 is on there as well, I may throw together an impromptu (remote) LAN party of old games.

@kramerdesign9443 Год назад

Came here to say the exact same thing!

@TheMalMeninga Год назад

Escape Velocity! I played that so much on my Dad's Performa 630 that it ended up being the first (and as far as I can remember, only) shareware game I ever bought. I remember having to call Ambrosia's office from the UK to get my license key. Ah, memories...

@monkeyman767 Год назад

I loved Escape Velocity, in fact, the forklift cheat in one of them is part of the inspiration for my name hahaha "Ares" also from Ambrosia was a great one

@Kosakate Год назад

I have 3 performa 630 :) Now imma Run this on it

@madmax2069 Год назад

@@monkeyman767 now that's hilarious

@idlewildwind Год назад

I'm about to cry from nostalgia! Thank you for sharing this. I just hung out in some OS's from my childhood/teens and it was wonderful!

@OfficialGH98 Год назад

Nice review of Infinite Mac there, Sean! I've been using Infinite Mac a lot of times, exploring around System 7, KanjiTalk 7, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9.

@USFrozen Год назад

Escape Velocity was exactly why i got excited to see this video and then boom there it was. RIP AmbrosiaSW!

@dataterminal Год назад

So we run mac OS 9 in our browser, then we install Virtual PC on OS 9, and run Windows 98 in a virtual machine, so we can run WinUAE to run Workbench and then emulate an Apple ][ on the Amiga? How deep can we go ?

@spingleboygle Год назад

so, so deep. you could even try going til you reach the old IBM supercomputers from the 60s-70s.

@TheSulross Год назад

finally a legit social positive purpose for Internet/Web tech stack - emulating vintage computers from '80s and '90s

@nrg753 Год назад

I wonder how the Mac version of Descent runs on there. Man that version had awesome Redbook music that the DOS version didn't have.

@nrg753 Год назад

But seriously, check out the track "Ether in the Air" on Mac, it might be my favourite 😅

@alextirrellRI Год назад

I was ready to be mildly amused by this and skeptical of the performance in a browser, but I am seriously impressed by all the added features and ease of use. Some of this really needs to get backported to the actual emulators because I don't know how on earth you'd do this so easily in them. Also very curious how the disk images work and how your data gets stored, unless it doesn't? Time to explore it.

@halfsourlizard9319 Год назад

You're underestimating how much slower old hardware was ... I ran the 7.6 VM in Firefox ... on a 7-year-old Android tablet.

@orchestratedpassage9468 Год назад

Wow, this is gonna change the reason for some of my collection. The old machines are fun but this makes some of what I've been doing so much simpler. Drag and drop files without converting..just too nice

@CommodoreFan64 Год назад

This is awesome, and it's really going to be handy for us retro geeks who just don't have the time, money, and/or space to keep a bunch of older hardware around.

@adamburgess1287 Год назад

I started on 7.1. Was my MIDI sequencer for 5 hardware keyboards! What a great little time machine! 🙂

@JoelRosenfeld Год назад

Hey! Found you through r/NewTubers (or was it r/RU-vidrs?) Love your channel! I grew up on MacOS 7-9. Gives me such nostalgia watching these, and catching the Ambrosia SW logo. I just happened to pick up Antares (the Ares recreation) this week.

@ActionRetro Год назад

Hah thanks, sweet!

@pseudotasuki Год назад

Whoa, those special effects!

@derpsquad3306 Год назад

Shenanigans idea: Try to upgrade one of the machines as far as you can, software-wise

@fimo0299 Год назад

This is amazing, i really hope that something like this will soon be available for MacOS X !

@a4e69636b Год назад

I was thinking the same idea.

@LightTheUnicorn Год назад

The work gone into this is insane, what an amazing project! Genuinely awesome stuff!

@killahcavalry Год назад

The nostalgia is melting my brain... I love this so much. Thanks for showing it off

@JaredConnell Год назад

I'm watching this while at the park with my dog, and pulled infinite mac on my android phone and it works pretty well on here too. I'll have to check it out more when I get home but I'm very impressed so far. Thanks for sharing!

@nickthaskater Год назад

Used it on my Fold 4 with a folding Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad at a cafe. It's pretty great having a pocketable vintage Mac.

@3rdalbum Год назад

"This is utterly amazing for people wanting to write software for retro Macs" I thought, seconds before you said it. And yeah, I'll be hopefully getting back to my project soon, and I'll be using Infinite Mac for testing.

@cigarr0000 Год назад

This is amazing! my first memories of using Mac OS 7.5.1 was in elementary in the early 2000's. Yeah they were old Performa 5200, but they worked great for MS Word which taught us how to type and after the lessons they let us play games like Swoop and Mario Teaches Typing.

@50shadesofbeige88 Год назад

Hey, nice meeting you at VCF today! I love my new shirt. Albeit, it is a little snug... Motivation to lose some weight.

@rickkarrer8370 Год назад

I love how there's only 2 to 4 people working on the classic Finder, but now there's probably 100 people all over the world working on it.

@sbeehre Год назад

I still really like MacOS 9's interface... i wish someone would create a linux distro that perfectly copied it with maybe a few modern nice to have's

@Xe4ro Год назад

Thanks for showing this, I think 8.0 was the first one I saw. I can't quite remember a grey/ b/w background.

@bobert2999 Год назад

This is awesome!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!! The functionality just doesn't stop!

@dwarftoad Год назад

This is amazing! I really hope that younger designers and programmers explore this and get a feel for the humanist ethos that was behind all aspects of the classic Mac OS and Apple stuff in general (which has been thoroughly replaced by a much more sterilized and shiny style.) E.g. note when the understated "Welcome to Macintosh" startup dialog box with the original line art logo (multicolor on color Macs) starts getting pushed aside by the big dumb blue face logo (And even that is gone now in OSX of course, along with the happy mac icon.)

@dwarftoad Год назад

Anyway, enough complaints from an old fart like me. Off to play Glider, Shufflepuck, Prince of Persia, and Out Of This World (aka Another World) and re-learn my forgotten Hypercard authoring skills.

@BrianJones-wk8cx Год назад

Wow-this is a brilliant project, thank you for covering it!

@pete3897 Год назад

Ahem. "System 3", not "Mac OS 3". We didn't get that parlance until Mac OS 8. I think. :)

@livefreeprintguns Год назад

Okay that AppleTalk option/web feature is actually quite amazing, ngl...

@pete3897 Год назад

I enjoyed the video :) One little nitpick - it wasn't every major version, 9.1 and 9.21 were missing. I remembered how much of a dog 9.0 was when watching it boot in the montage :) Great work anyway

@01302 Год назад

Escape Velocity!! One of my all time favourites. I don't think many people played the original. I was wondering what Ambrosia software you were loading, great choice :)

@cobaltblue1975 Год назад

There was only one multiplayer game for my friends and I back in 91'. We were in good with the computer lab staff, and there was sooooooo much NetTrek over AppleTalk.

@WhatALoadOfTosca Год назад

This is brilliant! The top and bottom of the screens are cut off on full screen on my RU-vid for some reason.

@zaxchannel2834 Год назад

I'm happy to have seen your presentations again this year :)

@retropuffer2986 Год назад

Nettrek, Bolo, F16 & Robosport were some of the network games my circle of friends played.

@mattsword41 Год назад

the localtalk feature really is impressive!

@grandmaster101587458 Год назад

I wonder if the AppleTalk on there would work with a real Mac on your local network, between the emulation in the browser and real hardware. That'd be neat to see.

@ccdbcvtrider1 Год назад

so amazing that someone did this. think anyone did this for windows? probably not

@tenminutetokyo2643 Год назад

Steve Capps also worked on Newton.

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 7 месяцев назад

i have an iPhone 13 Pro and an iPad 13 Pro Max which is brilliant and it just works but a few times I thought that something was wrong and I would not be able to connect to my phone provider but it seems to be working quite well now.

@JJfromCowtown Год назад

I saw Bolo. We played Bolo at lunch time in high school using an AppleTalk network built on simple telephone cables. Now I can do that over the friggin Internet ????????

@retropuffer2986 Год назад

It even had the correct folder with the tank on it!

@GaryBeltz Год назад

I would love to be able to get those retro icons on my current system. I like the way the old trashcan looked better than the current one.

@pgknippel Год назад

Can’t think of anyone I’d rather hear about this from than you. Thank you, sir!

@0nlyThis Год назад

Why only up to OS 9.0.4 - or can 9.0.4 be upgraded to 9.2.0 etc. and saved separately?

@Fractal_Nomad Год назад

SheepShaver only supports up to 9.0.4. It doesn't emulate an MMU, which is needed for 9.1+ iirc.

@0nlyThis Год назад

@@Fractal_Nomad Interesting. Thank you. That also explains the absence of the early OSX's.

@softer166 Год назад

And also, if you click "Done" directly, it takes you to the gallery

@awsomewe360 Год назад

I've always been a fan of Apples Platinum design. My first Mac had system 7.5. We didn't have internet at the time, but my mom had alot of those subscription mac magazine shareware disks. Its where I first tried Realmz. Such good times!

@JessicaFEREM Год назад

I could only imagine what kinda shenanigans I could've had in school if this was released back then, we could've had a classic mac lan party in class

@calebhogue23 Год назад

The first thing I did while watching this was play Missile Command on my iPhone. Pretty sweet!

@GalenlevyPhoto Год назад

It works on my iPhone but trying to navigate with touch is tricky. It’s much easier on laptop or desktop computer though.

@another3997 Год назад

I can't imagine why old desktop Macs, that had mouse and keyboard as standard, wouldn't work well on a touchscreen phone... anybody would think old versions of MacOS wasn't designed for use with just touchscreens. 😁

@parkerlreed Год назад

@@another3997 It's not that. It works well if you don't go full screen. Going full screen on any platform screws with the touch input because it appears to not recalculate the canvas coordinates. Created an issue on the GitHub explaining it.

@parkerlreed Год назад

This is now fixed!

@charliesretrocomputing Год назад

So funny, I just heard about infinite Mac 20 minutes ago and then you posted this!!

@amoeba23 Год назад

Outstanding life choices from that man who coded this...applause from a system 3 head.

@RobertNicholas Год назад

Awesome! Thanks for this video.

@bad_collector Год назад

video request: 10 hours of you playing Escape Velocity

@marchettejw Год назад

oh god escape velocity, between that and marathon pretty much defined my early teens...

@georgesenda1952 Год назад

I could never get sheepsaver to work on my 2008 and my 2009 Imac. No sheep available I guess. I love old games and software. Does your emulator show System 7 ? I have the original floppy disks for it.

@TheJoMan2 4 месяца назад

They recently added nextstep too

@georgesenda1952 Год назад

I would love to have a way to play Diablo 2, Command & Conquer & Civilization 3 Complete again. I never could finish Diablo 3 and love older Imac software. I wonder how far your emulator will work. I doubt it will work on my Silicon M1 Mac Mini but don't know for certain.

@nsputnik Год назад

When you go to close a window with Command W you close the browser tab. Dealbreaker. Otherwise, AMAZING!

@MegaManNeo Год назад

The Mac OS version of SimCity 2000 is on my CD-ROM of the SC2000 Collection, next to the DOS and Win9x versions, that is. I wonder if I could turn that into an image and play with that emulator.

@AiOinc1 Год назад

For some reason, I was expecting infinite recursion of Macs. Like, each pixel of the screen is an emulated macintosh drawing full black or full white, and each pixel of that mac is likewise emulated etc etc etc

@michaelpickerstudios8625 2 месяца назад

We have next step support in infinite Mac.

@orestes1984 Год назад

Can you imagine while Apple was still promoting OS 9 in the year 2000, Microsoft had a fully working 32bit multitasking environment that was extremely lightweight and underrated called Windows 2000 Professional?

@devcybiko Год назад

Great video. I'm previously subscribed and continue to enjoy your work. Continued Success!

@TaijanDean Год назад

Great stuff, as always! Speaking of Internet based Mac shenanigans, I've been toying with my Mac Plus since December to get it online using TheOldNet's WIFI Modem. I know you covered both the modem and Internet functionality of the Plus (in your FrogFind video), but I still don't understand how you got it to work. I've asked around, I've followed other guides, but nonatter what I try, my Plus won't have any of it. No doubt I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what. Could you give me a "Mac Plus Internet for dummies" guide? I'd be forever grateful, and so would my Mac. 😊

@IanOS-UK Год назад

Loving your vids! This one is fascinating! How totally cool 👌🏻😎💻🖥️🧑🏼‍💻

@MichaelEilers Год назад

I’m trying to remember which Classic version was so unstable and constantly crashing on my Power Mac 7600 and Power Computing 233 that I honestly lost interest in computing for a while and worked on other hobbies instead. I think it was 8.0.5 or 8.0.6, or maybe 8.6. All I knew at the time was OS9 could not come fast enough!

@westtell4 Год назад

Something like this but for early OS X would be cool

@ran2wild370 Год назад

Previously tried that site a few months ago. Not all the machines were stable. Yesterday tried again - had some apps not starting in latest macOS9 :-)) and those demo video files supplied on virtualdisk didn't play

@jimthain8777 Год назад

Not all those Operating Systems were stable! I particularly remember having a devil of a time in the original MacOS 6.

@RETROMachines Год назад

100% Apple "Juice"

@MSmith-Photography Год назад

That's Mactastic!

@RichsRandomRetroReviews Год назад

I don't know why but it makes my eye twitch when you say Mac OS on pre Mac OS 8 systems.

@kid.forever Год назад

So sick! Thanks for sharing. :)

@ZiggyTheHamster Год назад

If AppleTalk works cross browser, then that means that AppleTalk works cross-OS as well, I assume? If so, that allows for some potentially cool stuff. One thing that would be pretty crazy would be if there were a IIgs instance you could net-boot off of a Mac.

@stephanemignot100 Год назад

I still have my Physical copy of Rune, wish me luck!

@toonman361 Год назад

So, If I wanted to run an old App on OS8 like "Macromedia Freehand" for inclusion in a graphic media workflow, could I?

@sugargliderdude Год назад

not sure if its possible, but would love to explore windows XP again, miss that OS sometimes

@jimthain8777 Год назад

Someone's gonna want to do this for PC operating systems too. So I think it will happen.

@aetheralmeowstic2392 Год назад

FrogFind works in the Wii's Internet Channel

@term-827 Год назад

Now, if there was a way to do appletalk with actual hardware, then this would be perfect!

@animeaspie9635 Год назад

Haha michael mjd did a video on this I love how tight nit the vintage computer community is

@TheMetrored Год назад

Well there goes my weekend! Also BOLO!!!!!!

@TechAmbr Год назад

Time to get a vintage Mac enthusiast multiplayer Bolo game going!

@oscodains Год назад

There are a few bugs I seemed to have found: Sound is iffy and only works on some versions. I tested it as for no-distraction writing, and the word file corrupted as I was writing in the document, leaving half of the text as squares. idk if it’s a word 5.0 thing or emulator thing. But overall it’s surprisingly great.

@SproutyPottedPlant Год назад

It does not seem to work very well on iPad, out of memory errors and the mouse messed up especially in full screen. Perhaps a physical mouse attached will fix it and a more powerful iPad but I don’t have that.

@neongenesis2979 Год назад

I REALLY need to know if you can play Minecraft on this Emulator... It would be AMAZING to see...

@ryanzmuda3167 Год назад

Can you use direct attached devices and software you download or have on disk with them.

@georgesenda1952 Год назад

What Macbook are you using to do this ?

@andresbravo2003 Год назад

Holy dell it’s huge.

@antonydick6057 Год назад

That's cool... Thanks...

@andrewhill9568 Год назад

Shenanigans Tech tool of the day.

@spingleboygle Год назад

i’ve also seen this emulator! it’s really nice, especially since i dont wanna download things ang get my pc pwned.

@V1VISECT6 Год назад

I really want a Retro Mac OS emulator that has MIDI support. We have been able to figure it out in Atari ST emulators but not SheepShaver. I'm gonna need to upgrade my old eMac or grab an old Titanium Powerbook G4. I really don't want a 50lb computer on my desk lol.

@dennisud Год назад

I have a burned CD of maps for Duke Nukem Doom and Shadow Warrior. If I go to Macintosh Garden and use this online interface for, say System 7.6 Will I be able to run those maps on my M1 Mac Mini??? And will this 'Infinate Mac' Create a folder on my SSD for this to work.