By Mike Wuerthele
Sunday, April 16, 2017, 11:54 am PT (02:54 pm ET)
Sunday, April 16, 2017, 11:54 am PT (02:54 pm ET)
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Mac OS System 7. Apple’s been making computers a long time, and it’s interesting to see how much of their early design carries over to Macs today. If you’re curious about this you should check out an older version of the operating system. James Friend offers an online MacOS System 7 emulator. PCE.js is a browser port of Hampa Hug's excellent PCE emulator, using Emscripten. This demo emulates a Mac Plus with a bunch of abandonware applications and games to check out.
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The emulator environment is based on the open source PCE emulator. 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.