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Re: Infinite Mac

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I'm using Orion (Webkit-based) on macOS. It was blinking non-stop while just reading the Stickies. I couldn't get past that to do anything else because it was so distracting. It definitely wasn't HDD-related for me. It was constant.

PostIt note on your screen? :-)

Virtual PostIt on the virtual screen.

Re: Infinite Mac

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I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software." Most people I knew used it to pirate software and MP3s. The way most of us used it was we'd find a server that had something we wanted (software, a crack, or music), and the login would be password protected. The…

anyone still using KDX? i have a server running on telnet.asia

Re: Infinite Mac

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Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/

I would love it if you could include the game lunatic fringe in this.

Lunatic Fringe was part of After Dark, which is in the Control Panels & Extensions folder. If you drag that to the "Control Panels" folder in the System Folder and restart, it'll be enabled, and you can choose it.

Re: Infinite Mac

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What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes? Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. Of course you can always run dwm on linux with a hodgepodge of makeshift utility apps, write your own keybinds to set your brightness and volume and other such inanities, but in order to g…

Most of the time when I notice poor font antialiasing it's due to the OS resolution or subpixel antialiasing not precisely matching the panel. An old OS will not have subpixel antialiasing, so if it looks correct you could try disabling subpixel/ClearType, or testing a bitmap font. If the old OS still looks wrong, your panel may be pretending to be 4k and actually stretching things a little. Also, any OS level scaling is likely to mess with things, so check that it's either 100% or 200%.

Re: Infinite Mac

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post #99

Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/

In middle school, we had a math teacher with an old mac setup that ran a physics simulator program. It came with a variety of starter templates, one of them was this crash test dummy in a car.

It was all polygons, but you could hit run and the car would accelerate and hit a wall then the circle head and arms would sort of fly around.

Anyone know what this software was? I remember running and re-running little simulations repeatedly, with little understanding of the science but very much enjoying the ragdoll physics of it.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/

HOLY SHIT! You have a working ver of Bryce KPT! from 1994! Jeasus - that brings back so many shitty 3D city scapes I made back then/ Can you get Aldus Pagemaker (5.0 preferably, /r/beggingchoosers, and all that) running on this please.

I haven't tried this myself, but you should be able to download and install it from https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/aldus-pagemaker-50 (drag the .sit on the emulator, and it'll be copied to the "Downloads" folder). You can then use StuffIt Expander to unstuff the .sit and Disk Copy to mount the install images (both are in the "Utilities" folder)
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