Showing posts with label flash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flash. Show all posts

6/8/09

Midterm Challenge - Terminal Panic!

Play as British Airways CEO Willie Walsh in Heathrow's Terminal 5 as you scamper to get that luggage through the new, state of the art terminal! Be mindful of those regulations against taking bottles of liquid onto the planes!





(As God as my witness, I will never go flying again!)

6/7/09

"Welcome to Macintosh!" Recreates System 7 on the Web

Written by Joe Kohlmann

Ever wondered what an old, 1990s-era Macintosh looked and ran like?  Thanks to the Internet, you can relive the "glory days" (meh, I beg to differ) through Retromac.de's Virtual Performa 6116CD.



The Flash-based recreation of Mac OS System 7.0 also features a partially functioning replica of eWorld, a web portal Apple offered to Macintosh users from 1994 to 1996.

This virtual System 7.0 offers a glimpse of how the Internet looked (or would have looked) in the last decade.  The web was still a fairly static, multimedia-poor, bandwidth-less medium out of necessity, given that an Internet user's computer and connection were incapable of facilitating anything greater.  Nowadays these two critical shortcomings have been all but obviated, paving the way for so-called "rich" Internet applications and multimedia experiences.