Fakeintosh

August 23, 2001 6:29 PM

Fakeintosh - Have you ever wanted to run Mac OS 8 on your PC, but couldn't? Well now you can with this flash animation. I'm amazed at how detailed it is.
posted by bytecode (14 comments total)

Sorry, that boots way to fast. Not like any Mac I've ever used.
posted by housepox at 6:36 PM on August 23, 2001

(From over a year ago, granted, but a double post.)

posted by mw at 6:43 PM on August 23, 2001

How about one that actually works?
posted by machaus at 6:54 PM on August 23, 2001

If you really want your pc to look like a Mac check out WinMac.
posted by suprfli at 6:54 PM on August 23, 2001

here we go again...

please. why call this out as a double post? yes, it has been posted before, but, according to the guidelines, an attribute of a good post is that it is one that most people have not seen.

a link from over a year ago qualifies.

flame me if you like, but there is no reason to call these out. who cares?
posted by o2b at 7:19 PM on August 23, 2001

i have to agree with the recent rash of anti-douple post sentiments.... esp if the post if more than say 3-4 months old
posted by Satapher at 7:28 PM on August 23, 2001

Perhaps for some, looking for double posts is the only way they can contribute.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 8:00 PM on August 23, 2001

I think I'll throw gasoline on the fire by pointing out the double post debate going on in metatalk.
posted by alan at 8:17 PM on August 23, 2001

Actually, this doesn't seem to be Flash. It's done using DHTML.

How do I know this? Because "apparently" Mozilla doesn't support DHTML, so I can't view it.

Not that I need to see Mac OS 8 again... I thought we'd buried that thing :)
posted by Lionfire at 11:24 PM on August 23, 2001

it's cute.

looks funny running it on a Mac, though.

-Mars
posted by Mars Saxman at 11:36 PM on August 23, 2001

I think I am missing something... Tried it in Mozilla .9, Netscape 4.7, Opera, and Konqueror and it just keeps "deleteing" files off C:. I guess it doesn't like Linux or something.

That's ok, I just make KDE look like OSX.
posted by Localemperor at 6:16 AM on August 24, 2001

It's not very much like MacOS 8, either. More like System 7 with the shareware Aaron extention.
posted by D.C. at 6:31 AM on August 24, 2001

HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN THAT HAMPSTERDANCE?!@ LOL LOL LOL!!
posted by internetgeniuses at 7:01 AM on August 24, 2001

Nope. Can you point me to hampsterdance? I tried hampsterdance.com, but it isn't there. :)
posted by dwivian at 10:56 AM on August 24, 2001