Ah, my very first computer!
Thanks for making something as simple and silly as this emulator. It brought back a lot of powerful reminders about where the technology (and myself) have come from.
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In 1994, IIRC, I used a Mac IIfx with a 21" Radius CRT monitor with 24-bit color. It probably also had a 34010 graphics processor (we didn't call them GPU's back then). The machine was perfectly capable of supporting multiple monitors, seamlessly extending the desktop. Preemptive multitasking excepted, it was easily on the same league as Sun 3 or HP/Apollo 400 workstations.
The IIfx was released in 1990, but yeah, it was an amazing machine. Using expansion cards, it could drive 6 monitors! By 1996, the time GP was talking about, Apple had released dual processor PowerMacs.
Around 97, I think, I installed MkLinux on a PowerMac that sat unused in a closet at the ISP I worked for. Then I left. One year after that, I returned as a consultant and found all retired PowerMacs running MkLinux on developer and sysadmin desks. It felt good.
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That's insane to me. While people were using Win95 in 1996, full color, 3D games (Duke Nukem 3D), etc Macs were still in the dark ages with 7.5 and 8. This was around the time I was in college. I went to a big ugly state school and a close friend went to a fancy private school. In my school, we only had PCs available for general student use. At his school, it was Mac-only with everyone got their own Mac in their dorm…
Tiny screens weren't a requirement. 14", 16", and 21" color displays were available since 1992, with resolutions of 640x480, 832x624, and 1152x870. A 1987 Mac II supported up to 6 displays, forming a single desktop. Not too shabby, eh? However, the OS was behind the times, lacking memory protection and preemptive multitasking. It is incredible how much wasted effort went into Pink, Taligent, and Copland...
At least there was no unethical attacks like the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco ended up being...
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#95Hi, 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 t…
Did you happen to go to Cornell?
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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).
I was able to use Command-key shortcuts in MacPaint. (Firefox 21 on Linux). On a PC keyboard, Alt maps to Command and Control maps to Option.
Normally, the Windows key maps to Command and the Alt key maps to Option.
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#97This 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.
That's insane to me. While people were using Win95 in 1996, full color, 3D games (Duke Nukem 3D), etc Macs were still in the dark ages with 7.5 and 8. This was around the time I was in college. I went to a big ugly state school and a close friend went to a fancy private school. In my school, we only had PCs available for general student use. At his school, it was Mac-only with everyone got their own Mac in their dorm…
My (expensive) IIci of 1992 or so ran Prince of Persia (and other games like Spectre VR) in full color (256 color) at high resolution (640x480, high at the time), which the PC was nowhere near having yet. Not to mention full digitized sound was present in even the very first Mac, which PC's did not even have reliably working (soundblaster support, IRQ/DMA conflicts prevented much from actually working all of the time) until Windows 98 or so.
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#98I had a Macintosh Plus when I was a kid. (My dad wrote his Ph.D dissertation on it, and he had a HD and some game disks before I somehow destroyed them.) I remember that computer fondly. When I was in first grade we got a new machine, and we took the Mac Plus out and left it next to the apartment complex dumpster that morning. By the afternoon it was gone. Sometimes, I still think about it...who picked it up, whether…
My parents still have our old Mac Plus. And it still works. It is a gorgeous relic. I can't believe you just left it at a dumpster. Do you realize how much that thing costed, new?
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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 t…
Did you happen to go to Cornell?
Nope, aside from marching band road trips. Ithaca was too far away, for a PA kid. New Jersey was as far as I managed.
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#100Wow, I totally forgot about needing to hold down on the mouse button to keep menu's open.
Sitting on a mac right now, with a one button mouse and yep, same exact thing. I was like, what??? OH YEAH!