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Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by workbench » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 11:41 AM UTC

mrottenkolber wrote: post #35

I admittably have a weakness for vintage human computer interface design, but for some reason, they don't make them like they used to anymore.

Totally feel the same, love the look of Mac OS 7/9, NEXT, BeOS, RISC OS, IRIX

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by leoc » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 11:43 AM UTC

This is wonderful to have. Some insta-feedback:

* Double-click stopped working for me once after I tabbed out and back, I'm not sure why. (Win. 7, Chrome 30.0.1599.101 m )

* Could you make it possible to scale up the screen? (Not to increase its resolution, of course.) As of now the screen size is very small even in comparison to the original Mac Plus or SE screens. For one thing that makes it harder to see the individual pixels, and the obvious pixelation was a significant part of the experience. Just a quick and dirty pixel-doubling would be great. (Zooming the page size in the browser causes the sidebar to overlap the Mac screen.)

* A means to load and save floppy images would be beyond wonderful to have.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by bluedino » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 12:51 PM UTC

CervezaPorFavor wrote: post #38

amrnt wrote: post #32

It has 4 GB memory same as my macbook air :)

4 MB. It's quite mindblowing to think that now a low-end laptop has 1,024 times more RAM.

Too be fair it has been 25 years.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by throwaway1979 » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 1:22 PM UTC

randomhunt wrote: post #22

muglug wrote: post #20

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 ;-)

Same here. Surprised to see it has more features than MS Paint! The UI is so simple. As a non-professional, Photoshop feels way too intimidating.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by joezydeco » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 1:23 PM UTC

msutherl wrote: post #21

gilgoomesh wrote: post #4

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.

HyperCard was the World Wide Web...in a parallel universe. If Apple had put just a bit more work into making stacks friendly to the internet, the world might be a completely differently place right now. Or not. Who knows.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by Tloewald » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 1:39 PM UTC

mambodog wrote: post #19

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…

Wonderful job, but it would be nice to have (a) more interesting applications (e.g. MacPascal, HyperCard -- the full version not the Player) and also command-key support (it actually wigs out if you use command keys).

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by hugs » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 1:46 PM UTC

mambodog wrote: post #25

gilgoomesh wrote: post #4

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.

As a kid, HyperTalk was the first language I fell in love with. It got me hooked on programming. I've always wanted to recreate it for the web, but never thought of doing it this way!

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by wil421 » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 1:49 PM UTC

mambodog wrote: post #19

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…

+1 I would love to see NeXTSTEP.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by Samuel_Michon » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 1:59 PM UTC

This shows a Macintosh Plus running System 7.0.1. The computer could actually run versions up to 7.5.5 – an OS that came out in 1996. That’s quite amazing, given the Plus was released in 1986.

Try running Windows 8 or OS X Mavericks on a 10 year old computer.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by plusbryan » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 2:09 PM UTC

Wow, this takes me back. Hypercard was one of my first experiences with software development. It was really nostalgic exploring all the nooks an crannies of the OS that I explored so thoroughly in my youth.

Thank you