Get the latest tech news

Fresh Tools That Keep Vintage Macs Online and Weirdly Alive


With macOS now 24 years old and Apple officially designating all Intel-based Mac minis as "vintage" or "obsolete," The Register takes a look at new internet tools that help keep vintage Macs online and surprisingly relevant: Cameron Kaiser of Floodgap Systems is a valuable ally. His retro computing...

Back in 2020, he revived the native Classic Mac OS port of the Lynx web browser, MacLynx. If you're not up to git pull commands and elderly Mac OS X build tools, then there is a fork of TenFourFox that may be worth a look, InterWebPPC. That may be part of the motivation behind the newly announced and still incomplete SDL 2 "rough draft" that appeared a week ago.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of Fresh tools

Fresh tools

Photo of vintage Macs

vintage Macs

Related news:

News photo

Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive