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Angled Emulator!
Posted by: Snial on 2025-07-10 13:04:34
This is truly astounding. An article about the various control panel designs of Macs during from System 1.0. However, the demonstrations of the Macs are emulations run via Infinite Mac (you can embed emulations from there in other websites now, well done @mihai !! ). What's even more amazing is that some of them are in perspective.. and angled! And the screens look like the actual computer screens did! they still work!!!

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It's all here:
Posted by: adespoton on 2025-07-10 15:45:04
Well THAT makes my similar video series on the same topic rather outdated... 😀
Posted by: joshc on 2025-07-11 03:34:37
That... is pretty cool.

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Posted by: Snial on 2025-07-11 04:40:17
That... is pretty cool.

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Excellent! Oh, you're using BBEdit. Didn't know you've never used a proper Mac Portable! I've had a very short go on one back in the early 1990s (or maybe just shortly before the PB100 came out) when someone brought one into the Nottingham Microcomputer Club. It was a big, heavy dude! Also, as I'm sure you know, the trackball was very big and mounted to the side, but you could take it out and swap it to the other side.

The emulator here is very curious. It's got 8MB of RAM installed, like a real Mac Portable was able to, but it's doing this by emulating a Mac II:

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The display appears to be a 640x400 display (which I think is correct), but I have a feeling ScreenBits thinks it's 640x480. This is because when running MacPaint 2.0, the bottom of the window is cut off.
Posted by: joshc on 2025-07-11 04:55:13
Didn't know you've never used a proper Mac Portable!
Well, I briefly owned one, I recapped it but just couldn’t get any life out of it. Fickle machines.
Posted by: finkmac on 2025-07-11 05:03:01
The power of science is amazing!
Posted by: slomacuser on 2025-07-11 06:16:41
Amazing page! I remember Marcin from https://guidebookgallery.org/ I have visited that page many times ...
Posted by: Arbee on 2025-07-11 12:02:48
Excellent! Oh, you're using BBEdit. Didn't know you've never used a proper Mac Portable! I've had a very short go on one back in the early 1990s (or maybe just shortly before the PB100 came out) when someone brought one into the Nottingham Microcomputer Club. It was a big, heavy dude! Also, as I'm sure you know, the trackball was very big and mounted to the side, but you could take it out and swap it to the other side.

The emulator here is very curious. It's got 8MB of RAM installed, like a real Mac Portable was able to, but it's doing this by emulating a Mac II:
It's Basilisk II, they don't emulate any specific machine. Only DingusPPC and MAME emulate actual specific models with correct Gestalt IDs and correct innards.
Posted by: nathall on 2025-07-11 20:54:05
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After all these years... someone finally put that Scrapbook image to good use.
Posted by: Snial on 2025-07-12 08:51:50
After all these years... someone finally put that Scrapbook image to good use.
LOL!

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