Developers Simulate Macintosh System 7 in Flash

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."

Pfft..

There's been a windows version [deanliou.com] of this for years!

FreeCache of Flash

Avoid the SlashDot effect:

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

Brought to you by FreeCache.org [freecache.org]!

Ouch. That's an annoying bug.

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.

It's certainly faster....

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

Re:It's certainly faster....

... 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.

A little too realistic

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...

Any non-flash emulators out there?

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?

Re:Any non-flash emulators out there?

I use vMac [bannister.org] 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.

Hehehe. n00bz.

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.

I gotta say, that was nicely done

And it's even surviving a Slashdotting, which is pretty darn impressive considering how big that thing must be.

D

That is soft of cool

I opened MacDraw and created some squiggles. It works just as I remembered.

Shutdown

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 ... :-)

Translation:

Two guys in Germany have WAY too much time on their hands.

I wonder it realisticly crashes?

Worthless...

"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 [kernelthread.com], 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.

I've been looking for this for years

I train Tech Support agents to use a Macintosh. Screenshots, to a tech support agent, means thorough screenshots that illustrate how to use and OS or application.

Recently, there has been a tendency to use image maps to simulate an OS using screenshots. But I've been looking for a decent flash based view of System 8 or 9 that agents could use at their desks. Kept meaning to do it myself, but I'd have to teach myeslf Actionscript . . .

Why the old mac though?

Did OS7 even run on it?

pfft...

These [yaromat.de] guys have emulated Mac OS in HTML!

Not quite.

I'll be impressed when somebody emulates the hardware in flash/actionscript. Until then, this is just a quirky cartoon.

OS9 / Win95 / Win98 / OpenStep / NextStep emulator

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/

This is hardly anything special

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.

Doesn't look like 7

More like 5 or 6. Windows and menubar in 7 have shading.

High Score of 21000 in Space Invaders!

OK, then I got bored and quit the demo...

Yaromat had a DHTML Mac sim for years too.

http://www.yaromat.com/

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hoooray
hooray
this will never get read
esp. not by anyone with mod points

Re:hmm

It's not "some flash movie" check it out, you can load up Breakout, Pong, MacDraw, and more. You can browse folders too. This is some cool work, I'd love to see the code for doing the system so flexibly in flash.

Re:Very Accurate if...

Hey my father was system 7 you insensitive clod!

It's got a decent game of tetris however - so your troll is full of several metric tons of steaming shit.