I really like the Equation Editor in the Claris Works folder. Specifically, I like the "holes" UI when writing an equation using a summation editor, for example. I feel like modern equation editors have lost that, but maybe I've just used the wrong ones. Does anyone have any ones they'd recommend, or pointers to more uses of 2D editors with "hole" UIs?
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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)
Incidentally, Apple reseller resource CDs[1] also contained fully functional copies of PageMaker, licensed only for customizing Apple marketing materials, along with the assets (product photography, custom Apple internal-use fonts) required to do so.
Creating period-correct marketing materials for projects like this emulator could be a fun art project.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe you're remembering "At Ease" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
This is exactly what I'm remembering. Thank you for sharing. We had one staff member in charge of both the library and computer lab at my school, and I always admired her know-how when we'd watch her demonstrate something or troubleshoot a problem. Looking back now at the selection of software she curated for us, the uniformity of the look-and-feel across all Macs on campus, having a networked file share accessible f…
I don't have any specific memory of using At Ease on a school computer, but we had a couple of them in the children's section of the local library.
My middle school is where they got really into computers, a bunch of early G3 iMacs in each classroom and each student had a networked home folder with a schoolname.org/~user website, back in the early 2000s.
I ended up not going into computers as a profession (so far), but I poke around with hobby projects and really appreciate how powerful the modern web tooling has gotten, though it's also vastly more complicated.
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#194What 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…
With respect to the anti-aliasing on Linux, I run Xfce, which easily allows one to control the font anti-aliasing in the Appearance settings under the Fonts tab. I assume that GNOME and KDE have similar configuration settings. You can also get the same sort of controls in fonts.conf [0] for applications that don't respect Xfce's settings, like Firefox, as I recall. I could make everything as sharp as I'd like with the right settings.
In my experience, basically every window manager has some 90s-esque style as well.
[0] There's more information buried in here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration
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#195Creator 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/
Just as a heads up - I went to go create a new project in Think Pascal, and when I tried to enter a name all my keystrokes came out as boxes. Using Chrome 100 on macOS Big Sur. English (Canadian) key layout.
This seems to work OK for me. Any chance a modifier is stuck down (try pressing command, option and shift to reset their state). If this still happens, can you file a bug at https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/new?
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#196Creator 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/
Can I update the System 7.5.3 machine to A/UX?
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#197Heh. I’ve still got a G4 PowerBook and can run Clsssic. Not that I’ve tried in many a year. The OSX on it seems still pretty spritely today though I’ve obviously had to get the FireFox back port branch to be able to use a browser.
Check out Sorbet Leopard. It's an enthusiast enhanced version of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. It's been updated to support modern web browsing and had the "bloat" stripped out of it so it runs extraordinarily well on G4 systems. I have it installed on a 1.67GHZ PowerBook G4 and it makes the computer totally usable today. It's amazing how well a 17 year old computer can run. Youtube is the only thing that doesn't work well, but it'll play back 360P video if you give it plenty of time to load. Amazingly, if you download "CorePlayer" this old G4 machine can play back local 720P h.264 files.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sorbet-leopard-your-pow...
May 1st Sorbet Leopard is going to be updated with an App Store full of old PPC Apps. PPC Lives!
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#198Tried to play Battle Chess and got some weird out of memory error. Gaming on the Mac...true to form! xD
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#199I wish one could get Macintosh Common Lisp working on this. My introduction to programming was with MCL, and it was amazing to use. So much has changed over the past few decades. I wonder what it would be like to use it now.
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#200I really like the Equation Editor in the Claris Works folder. Specifically, I like the "holes" UI when writing an equation using a summation editor, for example. I feel like modern equation editors have lost that, but maybe I've just used the wrong ones. Does anyone have any ones they'd recommend, or pointers to more uses of 2D editors with "hole" UIs?
While I'm a LaTeX person myself, the equation editor (Insert→Equation) in Microsoft Word appears to work this way.