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Developers Simulate Macintosh System 7 in Flash

Posted by pudge on from the time-meet-hands dept.

TheChocolatay writes "Two guys in Germany have worked to create a Macintosh System 7 simulation in Flash. You can watch the Happy Mac face as the system boots and it even has a working Control Pannel, After Dark screen saver, and games. Wired news has an article on the developers and the simulation can be viewed on-line."

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  1. Pfft.. by hookedup · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's been a windows version of this for years!

  2. Ouch. That's an annoying bug. by Hackie_Chan · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's the first and the most annoying scroll script I've ever encountered. I hope I never see one again...

    Ever. By the way, anyone have a copy of the flash or something? It doesn't load for me.

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  3. FreeCache of Flash by cybermancer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Avoid the SlashDot effect:

    http://freecache.org/http://myoldmac.net/webse.swf

    Brought to you by FreeCache.org!

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  4. Re:Any non-flash emulators out there? by amdg · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use vMac whenever I want to run Dungeon of Doom. I got hooked on that game when I got my first Mac. It is still one of my favorite games of all time.

  5. Re:Any non-flash emulators out there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes - aside from the Classic environment, there are emulators that will play at being a pre-PPC mac and run software written for System 7 and below.

    VMac runs under Classic.

    There is also an OS X version of Basilisk.

    The bad news is that for either of these to run System 7 or below, you need a 68k MacOS ROM - which you can't obtain legally except from your own 68k Mac (of course, IANAL). Oh, and you need a copy of the OS - but System 7 is available for download here.

  6. Re:A little too realistic by Masque · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. That's why having cmd-Q mapped to 'Quit' is a silly thing in Safari. Suggestion:

    http://calmstorm.net/lj/safari_safety.png