LisaGUI | Links

Here are some useful links to websites relating to the Lisa, the Macintosh, and Vintage Computing in general.

Emulators & Downloads

My own downloads page, which has a couple of Lisa-related files on it. (The page style is from the earliest iteration of LisaGUI from April 2023; I was originally going to base it on the look of the Macintosh's GUI.) LisaEm: Homepage of the Lisa Emulator Project, by Ray Arachelian. The site also hosts a wealth of Lisa software user manuals and technical documentation. IDLE: Another Lisa emulator. Lisa fonts from KreativeKorp. Get TrueType recreations of the Apple Lisa fonts! I'd be remiss if I didn't include a link to the homepage of the Gryphel Project, home of the Mini vMac Macintosh Plus emulator by Paul C. Pratt. A PaperCraft Lisa! By Rocky Bergen. System 6 Heaven: Archive of this great website dedicated to Macintosh System 6 software. A cool old French site with some game downloads for Macs. BitSavers: Giant archive of old software and documentation for a large swath of platforms. MacGUI: A blog about old Macs, with forums, downloads, and more. I ought to mention this site as it's part of what inspired the name for LisaGUI.

Lisa & Mac Software

The Lisa Office System source code, available at the Computer History Museum. Macintosh Garden's Lisa page. A good place to find software for the Lisa. The Motherships's Lisa page. A classic site full of Macintosh and Lisa information and software downloads. Sigma Seven Systems, who developed a variety of cards, accessories, and software for the Lisa. Home of BLU (Basic Lisa Utility).

Forums

Lisa and Apple I, ][, and /// section of the 68kMLA forums. Lisa section of the TinkerDifferent forums. Lisa/68k Mac section of the Vintage Computer Federation Forums. The LisaList2 Forum: A great forum to talk about all things Lisa-related.

Information, Resources, & Screenshots

LisaFAQ: A great source of information about the Lisa. IFixit's page on the Lisa. Really useful if you need to take yours apart! Folklore.org: A set of stories about the development of the Original Macintosh and the Lisa. The Low End Mac Lisa page. Lots of great information can be found here, and on this website in general. lisa2.com: A webpage hosted on a Lisa! Before Macintosh: An Apple Lisa documentary on Vimeo. ToastyTech's Apple page. A classic website with some Lisa screenshots. Graphical User Interface Gallery's page on the Lisa Office System. Another classic website. Early Macintosh: A goldmine of trivia regarding early Mac software releases. Information about the Macintosh Servant, an alternative to the finder developed by Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original developers of the Macintosh's system software. VintageApple.org: A ton of archived documents. Also contains a mirror to Gamba's Site: a famous site from way back when with a ton of useful information and links to old Apple software and drivers. Windows 95 Tips: Some very helpful tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Windows 95 PC! The Old Net: A proxy for browsing the Internet Archive's wayback machine. Also includes some fun links to nostalgic websites. An enormous collection of 88x31 web buttons from the Web 1.0 era. Archive of old-computers.com, which was a great resource with information about a wide variety of machines released from the 50s all the way to the 90s. EveryMac: A database of information about every Macintosh computer ever released. The Digibarn Computer Museum.

Modified clipart illustration of a Lisa 1

(Modified image from the Lisa Art Department clipart collection)

Hardware

VintageMicros: Home of the X/Profile hard drive emulator and other great Lisa Hardware accessories. eBay... sometimes, it's the only place you can find things... 1-Bit Rainbow: A small business that sells parts for a variety of vintage Apple machines, including the Apple Lisa. Their website is pretty much what LisaGUI (and my downloads page) would have looked like had I continued the direction I took with my first prototype. 1-Bit Rainbow has a nice section about their site design where they describe in detail which parts of the Macintosh GUI they were able to keep and which they were forced to omit. Some of these issues were what motivated me to switch to a JS/canvas-based design.

Other 1-bit Themed Websites & Media

Hyperdither: A simple, no-nonsense Mac app for applying various dithering algorithms to images. MyOldMac: Yet another classic site with all kinds of cool information about old Macs. The Vintage Mac Museum: A treasure trove of ancient Macintosh screenshots and icons... Oh, what I would do to find a full mirror of this webiste without any broken images... (If anyone knows of one, let me know) MacPaint.org: A beautiful gallery of 1-Bit MacPaint art. Return of the Obra Dinn: A fantastic game with a unique 1-bit dithered 3D graphics engine. World of Horror: A very unsettling 1-bit game... The PlayDate. A 1-Bit handheld console. I really need to buy one of these... Ben Vessey's website, with 1-bit icon themes for modern macOS and iOS.

Web OSs, OSs on the web, & other OS-themed websites

Windows 93: What more can be said? A famous web os with a million cool things to do. One of the things which inspired me to make LisaGUI. Windows 96: Another great Windows 9x-themed web os. A bit more serious than Windows 93. Another inspiration for LisaGUI. And it's themeable! Infinite Mac: Javascript ports of Mini vMac, Basilisk II, and SheepShaver which run in your browser! Try out every version of Mac OS from 1.0 to OS 9! Also allows you to run NeXTStep and OpenStep. Awesome OS 9 themed website with a ton of information about the Mac's underground scene from the 1990s. Poolsuite's amazing website, which pays heavy homage to Mac OS 8/9 and Windows 95/98. A little homage to the iMac G4. Egg Freckles. An Apple Newton-themed blog. Just look at the design of this glorious website... I couldn't leave it off this list. Awesome Web Desktops: A large list containing a variety of other Web OSs. Some of these projects are more polished than others. There's a lot to explore here!

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