Zac OS 9

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. [via Hacker News]

Run Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP and the rest of Debian (plus Flathub) in the Platinum look, start classic Mac OS in the built-in SheepShaver emulator with your own ROM, and share files with old Macs over AppleTalk and AFP. Try it live from a USB stick, then install it from the desktop.

If this is too old-school for you, check out Bastian's Mavernix, which recreates the look of a Macintosh circa 2013 (i.e. one running OS X Mavericks) [via The Register]

If you just want to play with an old Mac in the browser, Infinite Mac (previously) is where you should head, and it even has the nostalgia-tastic System 7.…