Can someone throw light as to how this is done? It seems to use the native Safari app, unless I am wrong.

It uses WebKit rebuilt with 8-bit png image assets, combined with the PixelMix font[1] and what appears to be a custom library called 'Pixelifier'[2]. Very clever.

[1] http://www.dafont.com/pixelmix.font [2] (Examined package contents and found 'PixelifierDynamic.dylib')

Adorable. Some folks on the team were sad that it does not pixellate videos (yet?).

Why don't you just use Dillo. :P

That reminds me of the good old 80s, when URLs were 8+3, web pages were scripted in GW-BASIC, and we spent our youthful evenings in Space Quest Online.

Would love a version of Safari that looks like it came from a Vectrex, too (think Tempest).

Finally I find something I want to use with Geocities but, alas, I am too late.

low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.

It launched but almost instantly crashed.

Are you running on a 64-bit computer? That might be too many bits; try running on an 8-bit machine.

Or open 8 more copies, that should be enough bits right?

7 more.

I thought it would be 8 times faster instead

Yeah, same here. But it did open and stay alive on the third launch, probably some initialization issue.

Same here, worked second time fine.

Using a 32bit OS? Crashes on my 2006 Core-Duo MBP too.

I have a 2006 Core Duo MBP also. Running file on the binary produces this:

Pixelfari: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Guess I'll have to find a 64-bit Mac so that I can play with it.

Needs to become an item inside Minecraft.