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Recreated original demo?

Recreated original demo? Software 17 posts Jan 10, 2014 — Jan 12, 2014

#1 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 08:16

I seem to recall someone either here or on MacRumors mentioning attempting to re-create the original 1984 Macintosh introduction demo. (The "It sure is great to get out of this bag" demo.) But for the life of me, I can't find it now.

Does anyone know about it - and did anyone successfully get a recreated demo created? (I want to run it on my 512K-upgraded original Macintosh on the 24th, if I can.) And yes, I know that the music wasn't being played by the Mac...

#2 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 08:22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0FtgZNOD44

sounds like a good idea

#3 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 14:35

YOUTUBE:

ON THIS FORUM: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18111

#4 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 14:45

sorry i hate to be a stickler but that demo recreation is good… but not quite cuts the mustard.

has to be a 512k, and has to turn on from inserting a floppy. motions need to be more fluid

and beginning font is off.

#5 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 15:59

Right! Now is your turn

I am waiting

I hope some got Steve's original disk and would share it after this event http://www.mac30th.com

#6 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 16:12

It has to be done on a 512K.

Steve Jobs himself used a 512K.

#7 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 17:12

Question is, was the 512k video screen hooked up to the Mac in the original launch demo or was it showing a video from an external device?

#8 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 17:26

Question is, was the 512k video screen hooked up to the Mac in the original launch demo or was it showing a video from an external device?

Via folklore.org:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Times_They_Are_A-Changin.txt

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Intro_Demo.txt

In short a board was made by Burrell inside the Mac to display.

#9 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 17:32

I thought Steve insisted on doing as much as possible from the mac itself. Even if most of it was 'just a video' and the music was external.

So it might be very well the Mac itself the screen was hooked up to.

EDIT:

Via folklore.org:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Times_They_Are_A-Changin.txt

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Intro_Demo.txt

In short a board was made by Burrell inside the Mac to display.

HAH! You beat me to it :lol:

#10 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 17:42

I thought I had read about that but I couldn't recall where. Thanks for the link!

#11 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 19:02

Thanks for the link to slomacuser's version! I have a 512K motherboard in mine, and have an HD20, does it actually require 1 MB, though?

#12 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 21:51

Micromind player needs at least 800k of memory so, a 1 MB machine is needed ... If anybody can do it better I would be very happy

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#13 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 23:10

I'll pull my 4MB Plus out later and try it. First I need to get it to the PM6500 so I can make the floppies.

Any chance it will work on 512kE (Plus ROMs and FDD)?

#14 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 23:30

i'd rather see in running on a se/30 - ClassicII

playing the demo + playing the audio track as an AIFF!

#15 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 - 23:46

OS 9 is complaining that the image has an unrecognized file time. I forget how can I convert it? :-/

#16 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 - 08:55

I recreated the demo using vMac emulator and finished it on Mac SE 68000-8MHz, 4 MB and 20 HD, because of speed adjustments. It must be run under System 6. System above 6, gets error messages. I was using Micromind Videoworks II and Director 3. I have also version without sound file, that is using real Mac speech, and could probablly run on one 800k disk with 512k of Macs RAM, but I do not have knowladge to compile it into one presentation file, thats why I used MicroMind 3 presentation Player ...

#17 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 - 11:02

Maybe if I have sometime tomorrow, I'll pull out the PM6500 and reinstall some version of Sys 7. Maybe I can use Disk Copy to make some 800k floppies of the images. The only Mac that I have that runs System 6 is the Plus. IIRC, the 165 does too, but I haven't booted it up in a while.