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

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

  3. 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...

  4. 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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    "Anything is possible with enough programmers, time and pizza." (Substitute caffeine for time as needed.)
  5. 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.

  6. 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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    Alison

    "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

  7. 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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    - Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...