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Windows 95 is 30 Years Old

Aug 31, 2025 - 1 Comment
Windows 95 is 30 years old

Windows 95 was made widely available to the general public 30 years ago this week, on August 24, 1995. 30 years! It might not seem too thrilling today, but Windows 95 was a pretty big deal back in the day, being the first half-decent (ie: Mac-like) GUI to arrive on PC and a huge leap … Read More

Retro: Get a Commodore 64, Modernized with HDMI, Wi-Fi, & USB

Aug 30, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Commodore 64 is being reborn

The Commodore 64 has been reborn from the dusty bins of nostalgia, with a slightly modernized twist. Retro computing enthusiasts and longtime computer users may recall the Commodore 64 as a fun way to tinker with tech, play games, and do some coding, and with the new Commodore 64 project you get all of that … Read More

Retro: 150+ Vintage Macintosh Programming Books Available in a Free Library

Aug 29, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Macintosh BASIC programming book from the 80s

VintageApple has long been a fantastic collection of retro Apple and Mac materials, including old magazines, catalogs, and user guides, and now they have added a whopper collection of over 150 vintage Mac programming books available for free.

Run Classic MacOS & NeXTSTEP in Your Web Browser

Jun 8, 2025 - 3 Comments
Classic Mac OS 9.1 running in a web browser

If you’ve been a reader of OSXDaily for a while you almost certainly have seen us mention some of the fun web apps that allow you to run full fledged versions of operating systems in your web browser, from Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, or Mac OS 7, to even Windows 1.0. Many of … Read More

Run Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar in a Web Browser

Apr 25, 2025 - 2 Comments
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar desktop crashing in a web browser but it runs

Mac OS X Jaguar 10.2 may have been released all the way back in 2002, but thanks to the InfiniteMac project, you can also run Mac OS X Jaguar on your modern Mac right now with just a web browser. Sure you might even have an old dusty Mac laying around in a closet that … Read More

Fun: Retro-fy MacOS with Old System Sounds, Tiling Wallpapers, & Classic Finder

Nov 25, 2024 - 2 Comments
Retro-fied MacOS Sequoia appearance

While the only Time Machine we know of is the easy to use and fantastic backup tool for Mac users, some of us have geeky dreams of digital time machines, where we can get lost in flashbacks to retro computing, like the early Macintosh days of Classic MacOS System 7. While there are ways to … Read More

Got a PPC Mac in the Closet? Check Out the Aquafox Browser for Tiger & Leopard

Nov 1, 2024 - 2 Comments
Aquafox

If you have an old PowerPC Mac laying around collecting dust in a closet somewhere, you might be able to get some use out of it today by installing a functional modern web browser, like Aquafox. Since so much of what many of us do on computers is done in a web browser, you might … Read More

Play the Classic Sci-Fi Shooter “Marathon Infinity” Free on Steam

Sep 2, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Marathon Infinity screenshot

The classic science fiction FPS (First Person Shooter) game “Marathon Infinity” is now available to play for free from Steam, for Mac and Windows. Marathon Infinity, originally released in 1996, is the third game in the Marathon series, and continues the theme of battling hostile aliens in unusual settings. Marathon Infinity introduced some intriguing and … Read More

Using an iPad Pro to Create 1-Bit Pixel Art in a Macintosh Emulator

Aug 16, 2024 - 1 Comment
iPad Pro running a System 7 emulator to create pixel art

An ex-Apple employee put together a rather incredible way to create 1-bit pixel art on a modern iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil by using a Macintosh emulator, and the results are very impressive! This super creative approach is the work of Matt Sephton (the same guy who re-made the nifty Stapler app!), who used … Read More

Watch Steve Jobs Speak at the 1983 International Design Conference

Jul 27, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Steve Jobs at Aspen 1983 international design conference

The Steve Jobs Archive, which was launched by Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook, and Jony Ive, has shared an hour-long video of a then 28 year old Steve Jobs speaking in Aspen at the 1983 International Design Conference, as well as some thoughts from Jony Ive, and a nice collection of old photographs and Apple … Read More

Fun: Emulate a Macintosh 128k on a Raspberry Pi Pico Microcontroller

Jun 23, 2024 - 1 Comment
Pico MicroMac Macintosh 128k

There are no shortage of interesting projects and things to do with Rasbperry Pi devices, but this one will be particularly intriguing to fans of retro Macintosh and emulation; you can emulate a Macintosh 128k complete with VGA video and keyboard/mouse input, using nothing but a Pico Microcontroller!

Play Apple Music in Retro Mac OS X Fashion with QuickTune

May 21, 2024 - Leave a Comment
QuickTune retro Apple Music player

Apple Music may be a modern offering from Apple, but a super fun project from developer Mario Guzman offers a very nostalgic interface to Apple Music, giving it a QuickTime lookalike appearance from 2005. Aptly named QuickTune, you’ll find QuickTune has a super simple and fun retro brushed metal interface to interact with Apple Music … Read More

Play the Retro First-Person Shooter Classics Marathon & Marathon 2 for Free

May 12, 2024 - 1 Comment
Play the Marathon series of video games for free

The Marathon series of video games are classic first-person shooters set in a sci-fi world, and longtime Mac users may have fond memories of playing Marathon, Marathon 2, or Marathon Infinitiy as single-player or multiplayer over a LAN in the mid 1990s. But you don’t need a time machine or to run Mac OS Classic … Read More

The Apple Pirate Flag – A Fun Story from Apple History, and a Free Wallpaper

May 4, 2024 - 1 Comment
Apple Pirate Flag or Apple Jolly Roger recreated

“It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy.” – Steve Jobs Have you ever seen the Apple Pirate Flag, sometimes called the Apple Jolly Roger, and wondered what the story was around that? I did too, so I dug into a bit to uncover a fun little part of Apple history.

Retro: Enjoy the 1993 Easter Egg Video from the Macintosh Quadra 840av Team in Apple

Feb 17, 2024 - 1 Comment
The Macintosh Quadra 840AV team toasting their success and accomplishment

If you’re a fan of Apple history and retro Apple stuff, you’ll probably appreciate this little blast from the past. Sometime in 1993, a small team of young developers at Apple built the Macintosh Quadra 840AV and Centris 660AV, and upon completion of their project, filmed a little celebration video, where they toast to their … Read More

Watch This 1984 Macintosh Promo Video, Featuring Bill Gates!

Jan 28, 2024 - 1 Comment
Bill Gates talks Macintosh in 1984 promo video

Would you believe that one of the original promotional videos for the Macintosh featured none other than Microsoft’s Bill Gates?! In this fun video from 1984 you’ll see a young Bill Gates from Microsoft expressing his enthusiasm and extolling the virtues of the Macintosh computer. The famous rivalry between Apple and Microsoft hadn’t quite heated … Read More

Scroll Through Every Mac Desktop & Laptop Ever Made

Jan 27, 2024 - 3 Comments
Mac40th website is a fun find for Apple fans

The Mac turned 40 this week, and if you’re still on an Apple history kick, there’s a fun website that’s worth exploring called Mac40th. Mac40th.com showcases every desktop and portable Mac ever made by Apple in a continuous stream of Macs, displayed in random order. But it’s not just Macs, interspersed with tons of photos, … Read More

Macintosh Turns 40

Jan 24, 2024 - 1 Comment
40th anniversary of the Mac

The Macintosh computer, which has played a pivotal role in shaping personal computing and design principles throughout the entire tech industry, has turned 40 years old.

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