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Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by aspectmin »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #10
telegrammae wrote: post #2

Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.

the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...

Is there a good design book, or program that would teach design principles/philosophy like this?

To me, a lot of these modern interfaces (eg Unity) feel like staring at a dark concrete city. I’d love to see some more of this come back.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by rusk »

lostgame wrote: post #28
reaperducer wrote: post #19

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it. I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I…

>> I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I am a collector of Macs from around this time. I just picked up an orange G3 Clamshell iBook, and I absolutely adore my 'pixar lamp' iMac G4. I'm considering internal hardware mod projects to get these two up to a reasonable speed.

I got one of these lamps a while ago, and even used it for a while, but there were one too many painful moments (its crazy how far our expectations have come in terms of what we can put up with in terms of stability; or just even being able to watch YouTube) for the joyful novelty of its use to overcome ... I do want to bring it out again some day, but for now its in the attic ...

Any thoughts on what you might do with yours? I did some research and there seems to be a few options at various levels of the stack but all with efforts levels that far exceed my current resources. Some guys say they have NetBSD running on it ... there’s another guy who figured out the idiosyncratic video interface so you can gut it if you want and reppace the innards with something more modern (it doesn’t feel right to me).

I thought it might see some use as a sexy remote terminal for my main computer but nope - it couldn’t even do VNC without vertically flipping the right hand half of the image. Something to do with the screy nvidia drivers I presume ... incidentally the reason why there’s not much in the way of interesting Linux support. I might use it as an emacs terminal maybe now that I think of it. It sure is pretty though!

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by nottorp »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #51

Am I crazy or is right-clicking totally broken on this website? Is this intentional? Maybe a joke about the old iMac hockey puck mice?

It is. Dare I ask about middle clicking, which should directly open the link in a new tab? :)

Please follow the old Apple, that was about usability, not the new Apple, that is only about flashy design...

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by andrekandre »

tolmasky wrote: post #55

As best as I can tell, this is missing my favorite video, “Jaguar on the Loose”. Really reminds me how things felt back then. I’m on mobile though where the experience isn’t fantastic so maybe I just missed it on the site. Provided below: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zfnka

wow good times, for me it was this video

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zfnja

the whole thing was rendered in quartz2d afaicr

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by xvector »

pell wrote: post #53
reaperducer wrote: post #19

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it. I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I…

Just watched the iMac G4 introduction on the site. That is still the most beautiful computer ever built.

Interesting! I'd have to say it's one of the ugliest computers I've ever seen personally :)

If we're giving awards for looks I'd have to say that the current MacBook Pros take the cake for me.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #10
telegrammae wrote: post #2

Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.

the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...

I've never used them, but from what I've read 10.0–10.2 were pretty bad across the board, and 10.3 (Panther) was when OS X became a truly viable product.

I think Apple knew this, too. If you look at the timeline of macOS releases, 10.0–10.2 were released in the span of just over a year, and 10.3 had barely a year of life before Panther replaced it (incremental annual releases are the norm now, but they weren't then). And of course, Apple was still supporting OS 9 at the time.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by nwsm »

reaperducer wrote: post #19

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it. I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I…

>I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials

Me too! They had awesome song choices.

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