Adam Lawson's Zac-OS-9 is a completist recreation of the classic Mac desktop experience for Debian Linux, "drawn pixel by pixel from scratch." Modeled on the last versions before the switch to Mac OS X (more than 25 years ago!) it's not just a skin: it replicates the window manager, file browser, menu bar and every control panel. — Read the rest

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Doom running on toothbrushes is old news. The new thing is porting Doom to ancient systems. Few offer a more starkly-different experience to the original's low-res pseudo-3D than the vectorbeam Vectrex, already a vintage curiosity by the time Id software's 1993 FPS came out. — Read the rest

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Demoscene Recomp features four classic PC demoscene productions on the web, using the original code recompiled "instruction for instruction" to run natively in the browser: "The C is compiled to WebAssembly, together with models of the hardware the demo talks to" including a VGA card and, of course, a Sound Blaster. — Read the rest

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