Developer releases Mac OS 8.1 for Windows, macOS and Linux

Developer Felix Rieseberg released 1998 Mac OS 8.1 for Windows, macOS and Linux as Electron app. Mac OS runs emulated in Javascript within the Electron environment and is fully functional.

The operating system contains all elements of the operating system and third-party software, including trials of Adobe programs to be able to photoshop, StuffIt Expander to extract files, and more. In addition, there are two browsers, namely Internet Explorer and Netscape. Reading this article on Mac OS 8.1 will be challenging as those browsers do not support the web standards and web techniques currently in use.

The software emulates a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 with a Motorola 68040 processor at 25MHz. It is not the first time that Rieseberg has released an operating system from the 1990s as an app. He did this before with Windows 95. If you want to go back to the early nineties or if you want to see Mac OS 8.1 in action on your own desktop or laptop, you can install the app, which weighs approximately 250MB, from Rieseberg’s Github page.