'Seeing a picture of the desktop of an old Macintosh is one thing,' he says. Scott hopes the project helps a new generation experience the early days of the home computing revolution. 'Now that we've introduced it, people are asking, 'Where's Deja Vu?'' 'As soon as I showed it to people who had studied the Macintosh, they said, 'Where's Airborne!? Where's Lemmings?'' Scott says, referring to two titles already in his software stack.

Scott, for example, feels overwhelming nostalgia when he hears the foreboding organ music and thunder of Dark Castle. Everyone who came of age using a Mac considers a program or three absolutely essential, so it remains to be seen what makes the cut. The Macintosh Software Library launched April 1 with 44 items, but Scott plans to expand it with user suggestions. For hardcore nerds, Scott included two operating systems with hard drives of 20-30 programs each, so you can set an alarm or use a computer calculator like it's 1988 (System 6.0.8) or 1991 (System 7.0.1). The collection he amassed allows anyone to type documents in MacWrite, draw in MacPaint, or play games like Space Invaders and Wizard's Fire. This time around, he worked with volunteers to build the in-browser emulator and searched software enthusiast forums for canonical programs. Scott also oversaw the creation of the Internet Archive's libraries of gaming consoles in 2013 and arcade videogames in 2014. 'It's important to be able to access it, as you could with a book or a movie.' 'Software is culturally valuable,' says archivist Jason Scott.

But while most folks will relish running vintage games on their laptop, the library serves another purpose: preserving the feel of early technology for generations that never experienced it the first time around. The Macintosh Software Library provides more than 40 glorious programs from the 1980s and '90s, from Microsoft Multiplan to Frogger. Gamer Beats George Costanza’s Frogger Score Arrow

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