Nice, this one runs on an iPad mini! Not much slower than on a computer.
Run Windows 1.01 in your browser
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#12the mouse tracking is fucked. it leaves the windows if i go to try and click the top right corner
It'd be nice if they implemented Pointer Lock: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Pointer_Lock
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#13where is qbasic?
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#14Windows 1.01 feels much closer to Mac Classic than Windows 3.1 does. (Button appearance, close button on left, menus must be held down to stay open, "Get Info" instead of "Properties".)
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#15All these features, and Reversi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
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#16As there seems to be a lot of interest in emulators in the browser, here's my effort:
I ported an emulator for classic Mac and IBM PC to the browser.
Mac System 7 Demo: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
Windows 3.0 Demo: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win/
IBM PC doesn't have mouse support... Yet. For Mac OS it's writing the mouse position directly into memory, but I've yet to add that hack for Windows.
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#17I am really enjoying a lot of the retro things being posted recently. Sadly, they miss out some of the details. Like Elite being playable at 4 MHz, but really hard at 25 MHz, because that's how clocks worked then, and that's what the turbo button did. (It was a de-turbo button, turning your machine into a slow machine for compatibility. If it was connected, that is.)
And this makes me wonder about the Wayback machine. I can retrieve an old web page, but can I recreate the experience of posting to that site? Is anyone archiving the various social network sites code, so that the Future People can recreate the experience of Friendster or Facebook or Myspace? Or are the Future People going to have to guess by looking at screenshots and videos?
One of the first (perhaps the first?) commercial games for Windows was "Balance of Power". I think it either came with a weird runtime version of Win 1.0, or a voucher to get it, for people running dos.
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#18Even better, Zork: http://jsmachines.net/disks/pc/games/infocom/zork1/
And it appears to save your state between runs, which is nice.
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#19The first time I ran this something went wrong I somehow didn't manage to even boot in to windows but found myself at the command line, with only the DOS floppy disks available.
The true Windows 1.01 experience.
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#20I love that windows 1.x had a tiling window manager. I think it's kind of a shame that mode died for so long.
Back in Windows 8. And improved in Windows 8.1.
EMACS, of course, never lost it.