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Re:Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 by Palomides on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:56AM (#49096295)
modern tls libraries on classic macs has been available for at least 6 years, and was pretty easily possible sooner if anyone bothered, no AI needed
Re:Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 by user3939382 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:32PM (#49118049)
A library and working OS utilities including a browser are not the same thing. A year or so ago I was able to get 1 very old browser working but nothing else had TLS. The browser also didn’t have modern JS which is another similar non-trivial issue.