#electron app

Mac OS 8 emulator available as a downloadable app

Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has transformed Mac OS 8 into an app you can install on your Mac, a crappy Windows PC, or even on Linux.

macintosh.js is Mac OS 8 running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra.

Tom Warren for The Verge:

Rieseberg decided to turn an entire 1991 Macintosh Quadrawith Mac OS 8.1 into a single Electron app. It even includes a number of apps and…

Electron app is an open-source GUI framework that gives developers the possibility to build cross-platform applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript code. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application. It takes advantage of the frontend and backend modules that were originally made for web apps, namely the Node.js runtime and Chromium web browser.

It…