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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. It's certainly faster.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...than PearPC 0.1 running Mac OS-X. ;)

    1. Re:It's certainly faster.... by Wateshay · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... but how long will it take until someone tries to run this from a browser running in OS X on a PearPC, inside Virtual PC on a G5.

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  4. A little too realistic by lawyer+boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, I'll admit it. While trying to quit Space Invaders in the simulation, I hit cmd-Q without thinking and wiped out a bunch of research tabbed in Safari.

    I'm off to hunt through the history...

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. Shutdown by Draoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is sad, I know, but I had to fight the urge to shutdown the 'machine' properly before closing the window!

    Old habits die hard ... :-)

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  9. 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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