Thanks for putting this on the web - my first interaction with a computer was on an old mac plus. It was "broken" from my dad's work and I "fixed" it by taking it apart. It turns out the box was just overheating. I am curious if the original Kid Pix had a typo of Meun Bar, or if that is somehow an error in creating the emulator? http://i.imgur.com/FtNCQwL.gif
I bought a Macintosh SE recently at a thrift store that has KidPix on it. My housemates threw a party recently and I decided to leave it out on the table with KidPix open.
Around 10-15 people at a time crowded around and had loads of fun with it the entire night. It's amazing how something so primitive compared to what we have today made everyone's night that much more interesting.
The UI of the Mac in the System 7 and (especially) before was a fantastically easy thing to pick up. Everything was explorable and discoverable, and the tech world has only seemed to regress since then in terms of interfaces. Now the general population's level of understanding regarding the grammar of UI is such that that level of simplicity might not be required, but the early Apple Human Interface Guidelines are still a good read.
Yeah, unfortunately I couldn't get touchmove events to work as the emulated CPU is blocked during the gesture. You can try tapping your stylus in different places to move the mouse, however.
Back in the days when I was a child firmly living in DOS/Windows 3.1 land, I was always wondering whether that rumor that you can brick a mac by just dragging the system folder into the trash was true or not.
Now I know that, yes, it was true.
Thank you for this piece of art. This was an amazing trip back memory lane.
I actually miss that interface -- it's just so simple, especially the finder. The biggest surprise is that you have to hold the mouse button down while selecting menu options (i.e., you can't just click the menu to open it, then click the item); feels so weird now!
I've been using Linux for years so I've probably just forgotten. After I switched away from the emulator, going back to using the control button for copy/paste/etc. left me feeling disoriented briefly. Those old habits really come back quickly.
Holding down option while I select "About this Macintosh" doesn't seem to work. Not sure if it's getting sent to the emulator properly (Key Caps also seems to act oddly).
I also noticed that square and curly braces aren't being sent through correctly (a disappointment on discovering an ancient version of BBEdit and trying to write a Hello World app).
With System 7.1 you could run WannaBe (http://mindstory.com/wb2/) which I'd love to use again (I used it a lot in the dying days of OS 9 when any modern sites would kill a browser).
It'd also need MacTCP, but I'm not sure if that would work inside the emulator.
omg the nostalgia...we still had this in our classroom when I was in grade 7 in 2000...I used hypercard to make stick figure animations frame by frame that would shoot fireballs like in dragonball z and all the classmates would gather around to see it....
our school had a wide variety of Apple computers starting with the old green screen Apple II to this tiny black and white cute looking Mac OS....oh god those lunch recessses I spent just tinkering while it was raining outside feeling snug and comfortable drawing animations line by line
this was a nice trip down memory lane. and a reminder of steve job's early DNA shaping Apple's products...man I wish I could just pick one up for nostalgia
I wrote a blog post about the rationale behind this project: https://jamesfriend.com.au/why-port-emulators-browser
Also as a bonus, here's The Oregon Trail: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/mecc/oregon-trail.html