Video: If the iPhone 4.0 Looked Like Mac System 1.0, We’d Upgrade

Nicole Martinelli ()

Mac aficionado Matt, who made a retro-awesome video of the Apple website over the years, also concocted this video of an iPhone running on Mac System 1.0.

Video: If the iPhone 4.0 Looked Like Mac System 1.0, We’d Upgrade

Phone home like it's 1984.

This old school MacPhone does everything you’d expect from an iPhone.

It simultaneously runs apps, widgets, has an accelerometer and makes calls — the phone dial pad graphic is an excellent touch –  though you won’t be able to play Desert Trek on an iPhone any time soon since he recreated that 1984 look with video effects.

The MacPhone mock-up took him about a day to make it using Keynote and iMovie plus some photoshopped screenshots from his 128kMac.  

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  • steve sobek

    but for some reason, your youtube video isn’t iphone compatible? come on!

  • haineux

    System 1.0 used ZoomRects to show opening windows, not fade effects.

    I mean, if you’re going to go to the trouble, DO IT RIGHT.

    (and alas, I cannot find a video of the ZoomRect effect.)

  • http://mattsmacintosh.com Matt

    @haineux

    I actually did attempt to recreate the ZoomRect effect, but it was ultimately more trouble than its worth (it required a custom animation), so I just went with the more iPhoneish scaling fade effect that is already built into Keynote.

    Its cool that someone remembers enough about the old System 1.0 to notice that though…

  • Mattzook

    I’m more fond of System 6, because that was the first Mac system I ever used (my older brother’s Mac SE).

    I might be wrong… but wasn’t System 6 the last monochrome/greyscale desktop for Mac OS? Everything was colorized starting with System 7, right?

  • Anonymous

    That’s awesome! It’s like a pimped-up Newton.