I recently bought a Performa 410, and found a couple of cool things on it.
First of all, it's running System 7.1P3 and has barely been customized. All of the original software is there and nothing new was added except for a few fonts. The machine appears to have only been used for ClarisWorks. That's exciting because 7.1P3 is a version that hasn't actually been preserved by anyone yet. I'm going to clean it up a tad bit more to get it totally back to stock state and then run Apple Backup and share it so that we have a clean reference install of 7.1P3.
Okay, so I lied. There was one extra piece of software added, which is something that actually makes this computer interesting. At the end of the Applications folder after all of the bundled software, I spotted this folder in the bottom right, created in July 1993 and last modified in September 1993:
Huh, that's interesting. Let's take a closer look:
Unfortunately it hangs when I run it in MAME, but it works in Basilisk II. I immediately realized that this machine must have originally been an in-store demo unit. This is the kiosk software that would have been running on the demo machine in the store. It has a repeating intro thing trying to catch people's attention. It tells you to press the return key if you don't know how to use a mouse, or you can click the mouse to enter the main menu. It has a comparison between the Performa 410 and 466, info about what's included, a bunch of demo videos for bundled and additional software, and info about the AppleDesign Powered Speakers, StyleWriter II, and AppleCD 300.
It took me a while to figure out how to exit it. It was created with MacroMind Director, and I found this little chunk of Lingo code in most screens:
Sure enough, option-p is how you exit.
Here is some attribution info I also found in the code:
Does anybody remember this demo actually being in stores back in the day? I uploaded it to the Macintosh Garden so anybody can play with it. As a heads up, if I try to run it in Infinite Mac, it seems to have trouble finding one of the support files. I suspect it's because the filename has a / in it. Works fine in Basilisk II with the resolution set to 640x480.
First of all, it's running System 7.1P3 and has barely been customized. All of the original software is there and nothing new was added except for a few fonts. The machine appears to have only been used for ClarisWorks. That's exciting because 7.1P3 is a version that hasn't actually been preserved by anyone yet. I'm going to clean it up a tad bit more to get it totally back to stock state and then run Apple Backup and share it so that we have a clean reference install of 7.1P3.
Okay, so I lied. There was one extra piece of software added, which is something that actually makes this computer interesting. At the end of the Applications folder after all of the bundled software, I spotted this folder in the bottom right, created in July 1993 and last modified in September 1993:
Huh, that's interesting. Let's take a closer look:
Unfortunately it hangs when I run it in MAME, but it works in Basilisk II. I immediately realized that this machine must have originally been an in-store demo unit. This is the kiosk software that would have been running on the demo machine in the store. It has a repeating intro thing trying to catch people's attention. It tells you to press the return key if you don't know how to use a mouse, or you can click the mouse to enter the main menu. It has a comparison between the Performa 410 and 466, info about what's included, a bunch of demo videos for bundled and additional software, and info about the AppleDesign Powered Speakers, StyleWriter II, and AppleCD 300.
It took me a while to figure out how to exit it. It was created with MacroMind Director, and I found this little chunk of Lingo code in most screens:
Code:
-- look for small 'p' and Option together
if the keycode = 35 and the optionDown = TRUE then
-- go frame "quit"
shutDown
QUIT
end ifSure enough, option-p is how you exit.
Here is some attribution info I also found in the code:
Does anybody remember this demo actually being in stores back in the day? I uploaded it to the Macintosh Garden so anybody can play with it. As a heads up, if I try to run it in Infinite Mac, it seems to have trouble finding one of the support files. I suspect it's because the filename has a / in it. Works fine in Basilisk II with the resolution set to 640x480.
