Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App
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Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App
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#2It's Genius.app, an old flashcard app for Macs.
Author discusses/compares Duolingo and Anki. Anki is disapproved for lack of precise right/wrong feedback.
Repository of updated code: https://github.com/shawa/genius
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#3Speaking of old OS X apps, I liked iWeb a lot when I was a kid. I must have been around 12 when I was messing around with it.
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#4I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it.
On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222099
If OP is interested, maybe I can help with the Sandbox issues or having it published on the Mac App Store?
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#5- and + denote instance and class methods respectively, not public and private.
Source: my first released Mac OS X app came out in 2003. https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster
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#6It's a bit sad it just won't run without modifications. I'm sure I could run a random exe from then in Windows?
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#7It's a bit sad it just won't run without modifications. I'm sure I could run a random exe from then in Windows?
Yeah, that’s the downside to swapping architectures. x86 goes to great pains to be backward-compatible at the instruction level, and then MS puts a lot of effort into keeping Windows backwards compatible.
A couple years back on Windows 10 I successfully installed and used a PCB layout tool from 1998. I was shocked at how smooth it went. I think it needed to run as administrator but otherwise zero issues.
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#8It's a bit sad it just won't run without modifications. I'm sure I could run a random exe from then in Windows?
My son is playing Reader Rabbit from 2001 on my Windows 10 laptop.
I had to clock "enable 640x480" compatibility mode and I need to directly run the EXE (the wrapper launcher doesn't work) but otherwise it works fine.
Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App
#9It's Genius.app, an old flashcard app for Macs. Author discusses/compares Duolingo and Anki. Anki is disapproved for lack of precise right/wrong feedback. Repository of updated code: https://github.com/shawa/genius
I think OP is confused about how Anki works. It can totally be used the same as this tool if you just hit '1' for things you got wrong and '3' for things you got right. '2' and '4' are more power user levels of control.
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#10I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it. On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222099 If OP is interested, maybe I can help with the S…
I was very confused by your comment because for me the background is clouds with black text.
Turns out it changes based on light/dark mode.