![]() ![]() Friend has taken a Macintosh emulator and tweaked it so that it runs in a web browser, and you’ll be surprised how much you can do with it. Not only can you play around on the desktop and reminisce about how good life was back in the 90s, but you can also run a bunch of apps, including HyperCard Player, TeachText, MacDraw, and MacPaint. It’s a little slow — you’ll have to give it some time to load — but it’s a lot of fun. It’s also a great chance to experience what Mac OS was like many moons ago, before we had color displays and pretty graphics. To check it out, just visit in your web browser. Friend also has an emulator running Windows 3.0 if you’re into that kind of thing, plus an even better Macintosh emulator with loads of other apps and games. The is based on the open source. The published hard drives contain the entirety of a MacOS 7.0.1 system with HyperCard, BBEdit Lite, Mac Draw, and Mac Paint. Other applications included are Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, Pagemaker, and an assortment of decompression utilities. Games included are Risk, Cannon Fodder, and Shufflepuck. The images can be downloaded for local use. Various incarnations of System 7, and then Mac OS 7, existed, spanning 1991 through 1997. The software bridged the shift from the 68000 series processors to the PowerPC chip, and ran on hardware as new as a Powerbook 3400c and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Oh, that’s right, System 7 (before 7.6.5, I think) is freely downloadable and usable. Nice piece of history here. I was going to comment on how it’s amazing that it’s possible to just emulate it like this, but then I remembered that I’ve been able to emulate Windows 95 on the first-gen iPad for years now, so it’s not that impressive. It's still impressive, because the emulator is not running as compiled code but rather inside a browser as interpreted JavaScript. How about a link to the emulator? Oh, that’s right, System 7 (before 7.6.5, I think) is freely downloadable and usable. Nice piece of history here. Apr 17, 2017 - Last year, Apple switched from OS X to macOS as the naming scheme for its desktop operating system. But long before the days of Yosemite or El Capitan, Apple had a very different MacOS. The Macintosh computer, and its easy-to-use graphical interface, was the product that put Apple. Mac OS 9 shipped in 1999, and absolutely connected to the internet for everyone who used it. The OS came pre-installed with Internet Explorer, and Netscape 6 and I-Cab 2 ran on it natively as well. In fact, the original iMac, (so named because it was a mac that was 'designed for the internet') shipped with Mac OS 8. I was going to comment on how it’s amazing that it’s possible to just emulate it like this, but then I remembered that I’ve been able to emulate Windows 95 on the first-gen iPad for years now, so it’s not that impressive. System 7.5.5 and earlier (with the odd exception of 7.1) were freely downloadable from Apple's archives at one point. Unfortunately, the server they were on has since been shut down, but there appears to be a mirror of it on none other than archive.org: edited April 2017 •.
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