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I, and I’m sure a lot of others here, would love to read about that.
https://www.folklore.org
I’m aware of folklore.org, thanks. I’ve read it through and through.
Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9
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more specifically, I should say that re-rendering everything is kinda slow, the DrawText function which, uh, draws text, seems very heavy blitting from a buffer onto the screen is, indeed, pretty fast, I've been experimenting with it and have some ideas for speeding things up
For real. I’ve tried porting several modern UI libraries to classic Mac, such as Nuklear, uGUI, and a couple of others. And I’ve succeeded in getting them working, but as soon as you start doing something with text, they fall on their face. Just having a text input is nearly impossible on an 8MHz 68000!
Proper text rendering is hard.
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You must be young. The gap between 1989 and 1999 in computer terms is inmense, far more than the gap between 2010 and 2020. You could emulate a 1989 m68k Mac/Amiga on a Pentium 3 from 1999, for example with BasiliskII/UAE.
Performance increase did not stop; smaller, better designs. The exponential is just a bit lower. We don't realize it, just as someone using a text terminal may have not realised it between 1985 and 1995, if every response after a key press was already instant. For typical GUI interfaces, tasks like tossing video data around, and so on, computers became approximately inifinitely fast sometime c. 2005 - 2010.
Eh, no. Windows' 10 UI latency it's abhorrent.
If any, current gens with Electron crap are doing it far worse. Far, far worse.
Re: Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9
#135oh hey everyone, author here, ssheven is still beta quality, so I wasn't really posting about it anywhere yet, but it's usable and has the core functionality working ok I plan to do a writeup about it, and the experience of developing for old macs, once I finish the 1.0 release edit: btw, this is my first project for the classic Mac OS, I hope to inspire others to also jump in, retro68 is a very usable toolchain (big…
Cool project! I installed it onto my SE/30 with 16 megs of RAM. The machine is mostly a museum piece but its neat to be able to connect to modern systems from it.
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#136Pity it uses Retro68 instead of MPW and PowerPlant. Other than that, great work.
not pity. You cannot compile modern code with MPW and PowerPlant.
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Nope. You want to run a Classic MacOS emulator on rPi to test SSH for MacOS, but that makes no sense.
It does when you don't have a Classic Mac anymore and love the platform. A Pi 3 does an excellent rendition.
Just to test out an SSH client? (Tip: rPi has plenty of SSH clients)
And what’s with the downvotes? You’re talking about exploring Classic MacOS on an rPi not the subject of the OP.