RetroMac is a Free Time Machine for Your Computer

Mac users tend to be nostalgic about the hardware and software they used in their earliest exposure to tech. That doesn't mean anyone wants to try to get real work done on a late-90s PowerPC Mac clone, or go back to 14-inch monitors. People just enjoy being reminded how far we've come, and pretend there was once a time when everything "just worked." (It didn't. I was there.) German developer Maik Klotz created a free app, RetroMac, that turns your current Mac into a version of the Wayback Machine. It doesn't touch your system. It paints. A Metal shader sits on top of whatever's already rendering: CRT curvature, scanlines, VHS tracking noise. It can also swap your dock, wallpaper, boot screen, and cursor set for a specific era's look: Windows 98, Windows XP, System 6, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X Aqua, Snow Leopard, BeOS, NeXTSTEP. If all that lickable tech scares you, you go back to boring just by quitting RetroMac. How Much Time Travel Do You Want? Get a little or a lot. RetroMac's modular…