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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. Any non-flash emulators out there? by Radon+Knight · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd love to be able to boot up into old (or ancient) versions of Mac OS which run in a safe little sandbox on my OS X machine - simply for the sake of nostalgia. Are there any non-flash implementations which can run as stand-alone applications?

  2. Hehehe. n00bz. by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They made the oldest mistake in the book. The menus will not work if you use them like in System 7. You cannot click and hold on the menu, then drag to the item and release. You must instead click on the menu, then click and release on the item.

    Windows let you do it either way, and Mac OS followed suit, but... System 7 didn't work like this flash thingy.

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  3. Worthless... by shrapnull · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "preserving the beauty and legacy of Mac OS on the Internet..."?

    The artists obviously did it because they could. If you want to preserver the "beauty of an operating system" archive them, or better yet, release them to the public free of charge (as some have already done).

    This was the internet equivalent of building a model of the Eiffel Tower. Cute, but worthless. I must admit they did a fair job of accomplishing their goal, and they are obviously fairly talented with Actionscript.

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  4. pfft... by jx100 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These guys have emulated Mac OS in HTML!

  5. OS9 / Win95 / Win98 / OpenStep / NextStep emulator by sarahbau · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend of mine made an emulator in Java several years ago, that emulates OS 9, Windows 95/98, OpenStep 4, and NextStep 5. It doesn't have working applications within it, but the menus and everything work very well. http://www.naness.com/

  6. This is hardly anything special by azav · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not to toot but I've rewritten a windows 98 windowing system in Director and Shockwave in 1999 with:

    Windows and floating windows.
    Video support
    Key shortcuts
    32 bit graphics with alpha channel.
    Window dragging with live content updating.
    Multiple window states
    Multi state buttons
    Minimizable windows collapsable to a toolbar.
    Subclassable windowtypes.

    And I'm not the only guy to have done stuff like this. There are at least 4 other people I know who have done this.

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