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Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by chalst »

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…

Did you evaluate PCE against MESS [2]? Apparently some people involved with the MESS project have the Nextstep ROM images.

[2]: http://mess.org/faq

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

vondur wrote: post #67
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #60

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Contrary to what you seem to be suggesting, in 1996 Macs ran full color 3D games, could use large screens, and they were known for its graphics – remember that MYST was made on Macs. System 7.5 was a great OS, it just didn’t have the modern features that Win95 had (protected memory, preemptive multitasking.) Also, let’s not forget that before the release of Windows95, the Mac’s OS was way more advanced. We’re talking…

I don't believe that Windows 95 have protected memory or preemptive multitasking. That came in with the NT versions of Windows. I switched to Windows in 97 when NT 4 came out. The Mac OS was definitely lagging behind NT around that time period.

“Microsoft made preemptive multitasking a core feature of their flagship operating system in the early 1990s when developing Windows NT 3.1 and then Windows 95. It was later adopted on the Apple Macintosh by Mac OS 9.x” [1]

You’re right about Win95 (and Win98 and ME) not having true memory protection, but when comparing MacOS and Windows back then MacOS’ lack of memory protection was always mentioned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking#Preemptiv...

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by oddthink »

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…

Thanks, that's fantastic.

It's funny, I found it to be very emotionally evocative. I loved my IIci so, back in the day. The tinkering with the background images, recording everyone on the dorm hall making funny noises, replacing the system sounds, making the shutdown sound be HAL, etc.

It definitely helped that campus was pretty much all-Mac, so we all could tweak the same silly noises, and all try to find the joke that sounded silliest when told by the Talking Moose.

I don't have the same connection to my Mac these days. I wonder if it's just me, if the college freshmen have the same experience in 2013, or if it's somehow just an artifact of that particular era in computing.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by rjsw »

malandrew wrote: post #70
rjsw wrote: post #36

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There are several but none of them will run in a browser.

I've tried to get an Alpha Emulator working on OS X so I can try OpenGenera, but there really isn't anything that really works out there except for one paid piece of software. I believe the freeware emulator was the origin of the paid one and the freeware one is no longer maintained AFAICT.

Genera itself is commercial software, if you have a licence to use it then you may as well just compile the emulator for OS X, I can't see any reason to have an emulated Alpha layer as well.

Someone could try compiling either the MIT or TI Explorer emulators to js I guess.

Re: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

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Post by chc »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #44
randomhunt wrote: post #22

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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.

Is it really a bad thing that software targeted at pros isn't ideal for people who aren't pros? It seems a bit like complaining that your oven doesn't remove screws very well.
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