RetroMac

Turn your Mac into a time machine

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Turn your Mac into a time machine

323 followers

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RetroMac turns your modern Mac into a live retro machine: CRT, classic Macintosh, VHS, Game Boy and more. Apply 30+ shader presets to your whole screen or a single window, swap your Dock for classic Mac and Windows looks, and capture themed screenshots. Free with optional extra presets.

This is the 2nd launch from RetroMac. View more

RetroMac

Launching today

Turn your Mac into a time machine.

RetroMac wraps your everyday macOS in the look and feel of classic computers: authentic CRT shaders over your whole screen, themed docks and desktops (Mac OS 9, Windows XP/98, BeOS, Amiga…), retro widgets and games, and a virtual webcam that pipes the CRT look into Zoom, Meet or Teams. Open source, free to use with an optional one-time upgrade for extra presets and webcam support.

Free

Launch tags:Funny•Productivity•User Experience

Launch Team

Checkmarx Next Generation SASTHighest Fidelity F1 Score Hybrid Engine, Language Agnostic

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🆕 What’s new since our first launch? This is RetroMac’s second Product Hunt launch, and the app has grown a lot! 👉 Dock Mode & a quick launcher. RetroMac can live in your Dock; click its icon for a slim launcher to switch themes and flip the shader or virtual camera on/off. There’s also a floating launcher button you can drag anywhere on screen. 😳 Shaders on every display. Multi-monitor setups now get the CRT treatment on all screens, not just the main one. 👉 New “Retro Crisis” shaders (GDV-NTSC composite & RGB) and softer, more authentic CRT phosphor masks . No more “fly-screen” sharpness; it looks like a real tube now. 👋 Authentic Windows taskbar: Windows 98 and XP show one elongated taskbar button per open window; click to minimize/restore, just like the real thing.

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1d ago

the dock for classic mac OS 9 is the unlocked badge of every developer who's quietly been wanting this since they were 14. shut up and take my money.

real question though: does the CRT shader work with external monitors? half my screen real estate is at 27" and i don't trust most shader presets to scale clean across resolutions.

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1h ago