Fresh Tools That Keep Vintage Macs Online and Weirdly Alive

With macOS reaching its 24th anniversary and Apple classifying all Intel-based Mac minis as “vintage” or “obsolete,” The Register highlights tools that keep vintage Macs functional, notably through the efforts of Cameron Kaiser from Floodgap Systems. He has updated the MacLynx web browser for Classic Mac OS and maintains other browsers like TenFourFox and Classilla, while a new Classic Mac OS version of Mbed-TLS has been released for SSL library compatibility. Additionally, a preliminary version of SDL 2 is in progress, showcasing the ongoing interest in retro computing despite the challenges of porting modern code to the Classic Mac OS.

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