Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct...

Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct access to the awesome software library from the Macintosh Garden.

https://infinitemac.org/1997/Mac%20OS%208.0?library=true gets a new drawer that lets you browse and "download" into the Mac any application or game from the Garden. This should make it easier to play around with almost any classic Mac software.

Let me know what you think! And many thanks to fogWraith (the Garden's maintainer) for the site catalog dump and enabling this to happen.

Like 29 September at 18:06 | Open on hachyderm.io

11 comments

Mihai Parparita

P.S. This should work with any instance running System 7 - Mac OS 9.0.4 (i.e. emulated by BasiliskII or SheepShaver), just append the ?library=true parameter to its URL.

29 September at 18:07 | Open on hachyderm.io

Jonathan Holbert

@mihaip Nice! Thank you for the work you’ve put into this.

29 September at 19:29 | Open on appdot.net

🦿 Gödel Escher Spock

@mihaip Might need a little bit of de-bounce for the Filter text field. It locks up a bit when typing the first 3 characters - Edge / MacOS Sonoma / Intel i9

29 September at 19:35 | Open on hachyderm.io

Mihai Parparita

@adamhill Made some tweaks (there already was debouncing, but the first time a search fired it would build an index), let me know if it feels any better.

29 September at 21:00 | Open on hachyderm.io

Tom Brand

@mihaip when will we see infinite Newton?

29 September at 19:41 | Open on mastodon.mit.edu

Mihai Parparita

@Eggfreckles No plans for now, but a few others have requested it. You can subscribe to https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/292 to get updates.