Rehabilitating Johnny Castaway for the browser
Bringing the '90s screensaver to modern browsers meant recovering the story clock and scene director that made his island feel alive.
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NewSheep: forking SheepShaver to boot New World Mac OS 9.2 on Apple Silicon + JIT
A fork of SheepShaver itself, not QEMU, reaches a Mac OS 9.2 desktop on Apple Silicon through the New World path, with a native JIT.
Field notes on Mac OS 9.2, New World ROMs, and Apple Silicon
SheepShaver boots Mac OS 9 with a native JIT. Getting it on Apple Silicon? That took work. Full native 9.2? Even harder.
Feedback buttons without JavaScript, using a 1990s web pattern
A Cloudflare Worker is just a CGI script, and that's exactly what a static site needs.
Your browser utility wants to be a floating palette
The floating palettes and window chrome of late-90s Mac OS may suit single-purpose browser utilities better than today's minimal UI.
