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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Thanks everyone for the software suggestions, I've added a few to Infinite HD (and also some CD-ROMs to the drawer). This includes SheepShaver, so you can emulate a Mac while emulating BeOS while running in a browser virtual machine. Runs best on more recent […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

SheepShaver running inside BeOS inside Infinite Mac

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

www.streamspigot.com, my "feeds for Mastodon, Bluesky, etc." service now supports generating search results feeds. Enjoy the more efficient ego surfing.

Screenshot of the Masto Feeder feed setup page, showing both a timeline feed and a search feed for "mihai parparita"

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Extended Infinite Mac's screenshot function to do screen recordings too. You can now dissect zoom rects and other Mac animations frame-by-frame at your leisure. There's also a keyboard shortcut (Command-Option-Shift-2).

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I've started to add BeOS to Infinite Mac - you can see the first few versions on infinitemac.org/?filter=beos Not having been much of a user back in the day, I'm looking for suggestions of software to make sure to include, or pointers to canonical […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

BeOS R3 running inside Infinite Mac showing GL Teapot, a movie playing, a terminal, a CPU meter and the Tracker desktop.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Infinite Mac now has a built-in screenshot function, making it easier to do a full-fidelity capture of what's on the emulated Mac's screen. Enjoy the jaggies! (thanks to @michaelsteeber for suggesting this feature)

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I've switched over Infinite Mac's classic Mac emulation to @twvd's awesome Snow, which unblocks A/UX emulation: infinitemac.org/?filter=aux There's a behind-the-scenes blog post at blog.persistent.info/2026/09/infini… detailing this and other site updates.

A/UX 3.1 running inside Infinite Mac, showing the Finder opened to a Photoshop Window, the xlogo X11 program, and a command shell.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The Macintosh Garden is an amazing resource, but it can give Russian nesting doll vibes when installing software - apps inside of disk images, inside of StuffIt archives, etc. Inspired by @nulleric's What the .SIT?! site (bluescsi.com/what-the-sit) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The Mac Classic had an usual feature where you could boot it from ROM (i.e. without an internal startup disk) all the way to the Finder. For fun I've made it an optional feature of Infinite Mac […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Mac Classic as emulated by Snow running inside of Infinite Mac. It has been booted from its ROM by holding down Command-Option-X-O at startup.

"Brought to you by" folder in the Mac Classic ROM Boot Disk. It contains Bruce Leak, Gary Davidian, Gary Rensberger, and additional folders for the hardware and software teams.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I'm starting to add A/UX to Infinite Mac (thanks to the awesome Snow emulator). An early version (with a few releases) is available at infinitemac.org/?filter=aux Would appreciate any leads for 1.0 or 1.0.1 install media (or pre-installed images), and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A/UX 2.0 running inside Infinite Mac, showing a CommandShell and a Finder desktop.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

@stroughtonsmith No JIT. Seems to be focused on correctness over performance for now.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

@stroughtonsmith I'm finding out the same as I'm bringing up Snow (which is much more accurate) in Infinite Mac. I can't actually use that fake (5 MB) floppy image to mount the software collection into pre-SCSI Macs. I did have Codex build me HD20 emulation (github.com/mihaip/snow/pull/1 […]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

The nice thing about making your own weather app is that you can make features just for yourself. I'd always wanted to know every morning if work (nominally 45 miles away, but an entirely different climate) had different weather, and now I can. Blog post with […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Weather Text work mode screenshots: watch face with complication showing a 20 degree difference between home and work, and the settings to configure work mode

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

@hdhoang got an example of where this happens? The items should generally have the published time in the feed.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

I’d spotted a few “Infinite HDs” lurking in screenshots in David Pogue’s _Apple: The First 50 Years_ - it was great to see this callout at the end.

Photo Credits chapter from David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Two new tools on www.streamspigot.com: - Sky Feeder generates a feed of your Bluesky timeline - Tweeter Feeder generates per-account feeds for that other site Together with the existing Masto Feeder tool, this lets me follow everything in my feed […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

NetNewsWire showing Bluesky, Mastodon and Twitter posts

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

Why should mobile have all the fun? I also added a full-size keyboard for desktop use, in case you want to trigger harder-to-replicate combos like Command-Shift-3 or Command-Power (for MicroBug and/or MacsBug)

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Missing your classic Mac collection this holiday? I’ve added a custom on-screen keyboard to Infinite Mac, to make it easier to type and use shortcuts with the device in your pocket.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Playing around with adding BlueSCSI Toolbox protocol support to DingusPPC. Though somewhat roundabout, the end result is that you can transfer files in and out of more emulated machine types on Infinite Mac. As a bonus, it also makes the Macintosh Garden library […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Classic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit when the Internet took off in 1995, and the same is still true 30 years later in Infinite Mac. I figured out a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

As a demo of what's possible, I put together Infinite Monkey: infinitemac.org/monkey It lets OpenAI's or Anthropic's computer use models control an emulated Mac, based on your chat instructions. This means that it's possible to run the @simon "draw me […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Emulated System 1.0 instance running MacPaint 1.0. It is being controlled by the OpenAI computer-use model, and attempting to draw a pelican riding a bicycle.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

Infinite Mac can now be embedded into any website: infinitemac.org/embed For a demonstration of what this can enable, see @mwichary's amazing "Frame of preference" article: aresluna.org/frame-of-preference And for a behind the scenes look […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Infinite Mac embedding dialog, allowing parameters of a instance to be customized and the resulting HTML to be copied. It uses the Platinum appearance from Mac OS 8.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2025

www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/f… is a great write up of finding a 27-year-old Easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM, and the best part is that you can experience it today in Infinite Mac

Screenshot of “The Team” Beige G3 ROM image displayed in SimpleText on MacOS 8.1 running in Infinite Mac.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2025

And I know #MARCHintosh is more about classic Macs, but you can run older software here too. Create a custom instance with both 10.1 and 9.2.2 mounted, and then Classic can be started from System Preferences […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Mac OS X 10.1 under Infinite Mac showing the Classic environment running Calculator, Scrapbook and Stickies.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2025

Mac OS X was released on this day 24 years ago. On this anniversary, here it is on the web: infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20OS%20X%2… (technically 10.1, but that’s the first release that actually worked acceptably) Infinite Mac has a more complete […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Mac OS X 10.1 running under Infinite Mac, showing the Finder, NetNewsWire Lite and Terminal.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

New company, new corporate blog for me to post on. sierra.ai/blog/gardening-week-everg… describes an engineering team ritual that we've developed. You can tell that it was not ghost-written because I got to cram in a lot of links to obscure articles. More seriously, it's […]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025

What are good examples of early Mac OS X software (10.0-10.4 era, pre-Intel switch)? My list so far - OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and other Omni Group software - Transmit 2, Unison, Candy Bar, Pixadex, and other Panic software - Audio Hijack and other Rogue Amoeba software - NetNewsWire […]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2024

@NetNewsWire did some local (uncommitted?) changes to the default theme get included in the 6.1.5 iOS release? I'm seeing all links being underlined. What's odd is that I can't reproduce when making own build (either from HEAD or from the iOS-6.1.5-6126 tag) […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of NetNewsWire 6.1.5 on iOS showing underlined links.

Screenshot of local NetNewsWire build on iOS showing regular links.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024

@siracusa @atpfm @macthemes Indeed it is. Infinite Mac is just a way for me to relive my youth (I did the initial designs for that scheme on my TI-83 during math class).

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2024

Infinite Mac now has a “Macintosh Garden” drawer that allows one-click loading of any of the 20,000 items archived by that site. I wrote up a brief post with some behind-the-scenes details: blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infini…

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2024

@siracusa the compression speed and parallelism discussion on the most recent ATP reminded me of @saagar’s github.com/saagarjha/unxip. Though it only focuses on decompression, it shows how much faster than Archive Utilityyou can be.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2024

P.S. This should work with any instance running System 7 - Mac OS 9.0.4 (i.e. emulated by BasiliskII or SheepShaver), just append the ?library=true parameter to its URL.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2024

Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct access to the awesome software library from the Macintosh Garden. infinitemac.org/1997/Mac%20OS%208.0… gets a new drawer that lets you browse and "download" into the Mac any […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2024

I couldn’t find a watchOS weather complication I liked so I ended up making my own app: blog.persistent.info/2024/08/weathe…

Apple Watch Modular face with Weather Text complication

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2024

@marcoarment happy to see that Intents/Shortcuts are back in Overcast. Any chance for a “Play Playlist” intent? I used to have a shortcut to start my preferred playlist (regardless of what I was doing before), which I can’t seem to recreate.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2024

@siracusa Based on infinitemac.org/?filter=next the Chess app first showed up in NeXTStep 1.0 (as a developer sample app), so it's almost 35 years old.

Screenshot of Chess running on NeXTStep 1.0.

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Mihai Parparita @mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2024

Combination of importing my high school era coding projects into GitHub and www.retrogit.com is generating a lot of feelings.

Screenshot of a code commit from 26 years ago, showing a change to the clip2cicn classic Mac utility.

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