Mac hacker Josh Juran has built an emulator, dubbed Advanced Mac Substitute (AMS), which promises to run old Mac apps compiled for Motorola 68000-series CPUs on modern hardware. With Apple's Macintosh today marking the 35th anniversary of its launch, the project could offer fans of Mac apps from 1984 a chance to relive the experience on Linux, Mac OS X, and Android devices. One of the key goals of the AMS project, spotted by Ars Technica, is to run the apps without needing a copy of old MacOS installation CDs as is needed for other Mac OS emulators. Juran describes AMS as an 'API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS'. The only hardware AMS emulates is the 68000 CPU, and it's built to work without an Apple ROM or system software. Old games that Juran demos working in AMS to varying degrees include The Fool's Errand, the Amazing maze puzzle, Solitaire, Missile, and an animation of NyanCat. Apps that come with AMS available on GitHub include … [Read more...] about As Apple Macintosh turns 35, Android, Linux, OS X users get to run its classic apps
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From Win32 to Cocoa: A Windows user’s would-be conversion to Mac OS X
Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. Could this lifelong PC user really have been pushed to the brink? Was he considering a switch to... Mac OS?!? While our staff hopefully enjoys a less stressful Memorial Day this year, throughout the weekend we're resurfacing this three part series that doubles as an existential operating system dilemma circa 2008. Part one ran on April 21, 2008, and it appears unedited below. A couple of Gartner analysts have recently claimed that Windows is "collapsing"—that it's too big, too sprawling, and too old to allow rapid development and significant new features. Although organizations like Gartner depend on trolling to drum up business, I think this time they could be onto something. "Collapsing" is over-dramatic—gradual decline is a more likely outcome—but the essence of what they're saying—and why they're saying … [Read more...] about From Win32 to Cocoa: A Windows user’s would-be conversion to Mac OS X
Google Chrome 65 Released – Install on RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 27-20
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. Google Chrome team proudly announced the release of Google Chrome 65 on March 13, 2018. The actual version is 65.0.3325.162 for Linux and Mac OS X/Windows operating system. This new version bundled with a number of exciting fixes, features and improvements. If you would like to know more other cool features of this release, please visit at Google’s Chrome Features. In this tutorial we will show you how to install Google Chrome 65 browser in RHEL/CentOS 7.x and Fedora distributions using Google’s own repository with Yum tool. Important: Google Chrome support for all 32-bit Linux distributions is deprecated from March, 2016. By using Google’s official repository you will keep your Chrome browser up-to-date. # yum update google-chrome-stable However, same instructions should also work on RHEL 7.x, CentOS 7.x and Fedora 27-24 versions as well. Step 1: Enable Google YUM repository Create a file called … [Read more...] about Google Chrome 65 Released – Install on RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 27-20
Play games on your Mac installed on another computer with Steam In-Home Streaming
Tips By Malcolm Owen Thursday, March 15, 2018, 11:25 am PT (02:25 pm ET) If you want to play games on a Mac that has lower specifications than ideally needed to play properly, it is possible to take advantage of the hardware of a more powerful Mac or PC elsewhere on the home network to have a more enjoyable gaming experience. AppleInsider explains how to set up Steam's In-Home Streaming function to remotely play your game collection. As newer games are released, the specifications needed to play them smoothly continue to rise, and can end up being unplayable on some desktops. In the event that there happens to be a second computer that's more powerful and more suitable for gaming, the obvious answer is to use that one, but there are situations where it is unfeasible. For example, the more powerful computer could be in a completely different place in the house to where you would prefer to play the game. Maybe there's a Mac mini connected to a large living room TV that isn't great … [Read more...] about Play games on your Mac installed on another computer with Steam In-Home Streaming
Zero Install
It allows software developers to publish programs directly from their own web-sites, while supporting features familiar from centralized distribution repositories such as shared libraries, automatic updates and digital signatures. It is intended to complement, rather than replace, the operating system’s package management. 0install packages never interfere with those provided by the distribution. Zero Install does not define a new packaging format; unmodified tarballs or zip archives can be used. Instead, it defines an XML metadata format to describe these packages and the dependencies between them. A single metadata file can be used on multiple platforms (e.g. Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD and Mac OS X). Zero Install also has some interesting features not often found in traditional package managers. For example, while it will share libraries whenever possible, it can always install multiple versions of a package in parallel when there are conflicting requirements. … [Read more...] about Zero Install