"A project by developer and artist Andrew Yaros, LisaGUI is a reproduction of the LisaOS in JavaScript. As the project's information page describes, it's not an emulator. This is partly because such things already exist, and the source code of its software is available, but it's also partly to make it work a little better inside a browser window than an exact emulation of a 42-year-old computer."
"It came to the attention of The Reg FOSS desk because Yaros just posted a blog post about The Why of Lisa G. U. I.. To be honest, the blog's clever recreation of a classic MS-DOS era text user interface might well have charmed us enough to keep reading, even if we hadn't been impressed with the recreation - but both really struck us."
"The thing is, though, that most of us - even retrocomputing enthusiasts like this vulture - have never got to sit down and work with one for a while. The Lisa was so commercially unsuccessful that, as The Register recounted six years ago, Apple consigned several thousands of them to a landfill in 1989. As a result, to get a little bit of a feel for how the Lisa worked, you need to play around with it: create some documents, edit some text and so on."
LisaGUI reproduces the Apple Lisa desktop and LisaOS in JavaScript, recreating the original user interface without performing raw hardware emulation. The project implements the Lisa experience for modern browsers by leveraging available source code and avoiding byte-for-byte emulation to improve usability in a browser window. Web-based recreations of other legacy OSes exist, but Lisa remains less widely known. The original Lisa was commercially unsuccessful and many units were discarded, limiting hands-on exposure. LisaGUI provides interactive access to create documents, edit text, and explore the distinctive LisaOS behaviors and design lessons.
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