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Infinite Mac: Macintosh Garden Library
# The Macintosh Garden is a great resource in the retro Mac community. It has an archive of nearly every piece of software released in the 80s and 90s, complete with screenshots, manuals, and metadata like year of release and operating system requirements.
In keeping with the secondary goal of Infinite Mac bringing the best of web technologies to retro-computing, I wanted the Macintosh Garden drawer to be as fast as possible. I decided to create a custom data format, with only a small index file being necessary to render the drawer list view and support search-as-you-type. The worker also handles proxying of downloads from the Garden, both to avoid running into CORS issues and because Cloudflare’s caching should help with frequently-used items.
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