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Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

#21

Hypercard "Player"? Oh the pain, it's all coming back to me! (To those who don't understand... Hypercard was originally free but when it was spun off as part of Claris, they tried to charge for the real thing and only offered the "Player" for free. Hypercard was already disintegrating from neglect but this really hastened its demise.)

I really wish a proper version of Hypercard was in this emulator. I'm too young to have used it at the time, but from what I've read it stands for an important ideal of what personal computers can be that's been forgotten and I'd like to experience what that was like first-hand.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Spent a good 10 minutes playing with Kid Pix, having not heard of it before. Turns out it has a fun history - it was designed to be usable by a 3-year-old: http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years/

I did exactly the same! The Moving Truck icon is inspired...Photoshop could learn a few things ;-)

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

#25

Hypercard "Player"? Oh the pain, it's all coming back to me! (To those who don't understand... Hypercard was originally free but when it was spun off as part of Claris, they tried to charge for the real thing and only offered the "Player" for free. Hypercard was already disintegrating from neglect but this really hastened its demise.)

I'll see what I can do about getting a Hypercard-specific demo together.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

#26

Hypercard "Player"? Oh the pain, it's all coming back to me! (To those who don't understand... Hypercard was originally free but when it was spun off as part of Claris, they tried to charge for the real thing and only offered the "Player" for free. Hypercard was already disintegrating from neglect but this really hastened its demise.)

I wonder who owns Hypercard these days and if it could ever be released into the public domain.

Edit: Seems as if Apple now own it again as part of FileMaker Inc.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Hi, I hacked this together, though most of the credit should go to Hampa Hug's very nice emulator[0]. I'm posting this now as I saw the neat Windows emulator project and figured today was a good day to talk about emulation :) My reasoning for putting this together is that I think it's really important for people to learn from what's come before, and the web is the most accessible place to do that. I've written a post…

I would very much like to see a demo of NeXTSTEP working!
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