ZacOS 9 rebuilds the Mac OS 8 and 9 desktop pixel by pixel for Debian Linux
Zac-OS-9: The classic Platinum desktop, reborn for modern PCs
ZacOS 9 is a complete Debian Linux desktop styled after Mac OS 8 and 9, with a window manager, Sniffer file browser, menu bar, and control panels all drawn from scratch. It runs Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, and Flathub apps in the Platinum look, boots classic Mac OS through the built-in SheepShaver emulator with your own ROM, and shares files with old Macs over AppleTalk and AFP. It's an independent project with no Apple code, ROMs, fonts, or icons included.
The window manager, the Sniffer file browser, the menu bar and every control panel were written for it, so everything looks and behaves the same way, down to the scroll arrows.
- Kwpolska
The use of Sourceforge might trick you into thinking it's an ancient project built by a human, but nah, it's a month-old slopfest. Yawn.
- donatj
I swear projects exactly like this were EVERYWHERE like 25 years ago. Couldn't throw a rock on the internet and not hit a MacOS Platinum theme/simulation layer for any given OS.
I used one for Windows back in the day that somehow successfully lifted the file menus (well for most apps) from your apps to the top of the screen.
- timnetworks
Very cool, I absolutely love the copland/system7/8/9 look. For some reason I'm more skeptical of something like this than grassmunk's Platinum9[1] theme or the like. I have an old macbook with mint(?) and this theme on it, but it's so out of date that I'm scared to use that too.
- tambourine_man
I didn't know SourceForge was still used.
- rcarmo
Love it. I too use Platinum as a skin in my projects: https://github.com/rcarmo/wrdp