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.
manytimesaway 34 minutes ago [-]
So, making obsolete hardware relevant by using the technology that's accelerating their "irrelevanceness" ?
hyperhello 23 minutes ago [-]
To me it proves that a technology can be understood and implemented by one person.
prokopton 25 minutes ago [-]
Can hardware became more obsolete?
Cyan488 3 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 2 hours ago [-]
Exactly. I don't know why some people'd change the branding.
ndiddy 20 minutes 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 2 hours ago [-]
The project didn't, only the HN submission title.
manoDev 22 minutes 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.
simgt 2 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.
gcp123 3 hours ago [-]
Freaking love it! Gonna put this on my 1998 Bondi Blue iMac G3 today.
iwontberude 1 hours ago [-]
Time to fire up the ol PowerMac G4 MDD (last native support for Mac OS 9)
hyperhello 3 hours ago [-]
Absolutely love it.
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Also, the branding was "Mac OS 9".