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BOLO WAS THE BEST!
Maze Wars and Spectre VR were pretty fun on AppleTalk too.
Ah, giant 3d polygons. They just don't make games like they used to!
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To mitigate the issues you mention, I've long wanted higher res screens since forever (I had one of those early Vaio VGN-Z that was the only 13-14" laptop with 1600x900 displays when 1366x768 dominated; they were also the first to move to 1920x1080 with their next model). And I had that Dell's first 24" 4K screen that required DP MST to go past 30Hz. I've tried disabling subpixel rendering to see if that resolution w…
You’ll also need HDMI 2.1 compatible gear if you want 8k at 60Hz, and there are caveats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Refresh_frequency_limits_...
Yeah, thus my mention of lacking a modern-enough GPU to drive them.
Thanks for a very clear and direct source for the bandwidth, I was under the impression HDMI 2.1 would not require DSC for 8k at 60Hz but never paid attention to the actual numbers.
DP 2.0 is what I need to wait for then :) What was the bandwidth it promises? 77Gbps, should work.
Then again, I feel like eGPUs are the way forward for this, as you can keep the GPU close to the screen, and your computer would talk a "semantically compressed" (or rather terser) language to the display output (eg. talk OpenGL to your display).
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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)
Welp, I can sorta get it there -- but I cant figure out how to install it after mounting: https://i.imgur.com/WRNDdjB.png https://i.imgur.com/Pedlilm.png --- Whats really interesting to me about this, was that just ~last week or so, I was wondering what ever happened to Kai (Kai's Power Tools - Kai was the inventor of it and it was a revolutionary glimpse into the future of what 3D worlds were going to be put into th…
Once you have the disk mounted in your second screenshot, drag (all?) the 1.image files onto the Disk Copy window to mount each individual floppy, and inside "1" is a Utilities folder with a How to Install and a Aldus Installer/Utility app.
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#294What 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…
>Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. That makes no sense. Bitmaps have a fixed pixel density while vectors are infinitely scalable.
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#295This took me on a trip down memory lane back to my days in elementary school. I recall our class going to the computer lab once a week and having an hour to spend on an iMac G3, of which some were on OS8 and others OS9. Going back even further to kindergarten, our logins on those Macs were forced to use a simplified UI that displayed only icons/tiles of applications -- no browsing files or anything sophisticated from…
I believe you're remembering "At Ease" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
I got in so much trouble due to a gaping security hole in At Ease back in 7th grade. You could put a floppy disk in and it would present the documents and folders, but no applications. However, it would allow you to open Desk Accessories (a System So being the nerdy troublemaker that I was, I used a DA to launch other programs such as ResEdit and bob's your uncle. I had installed all the cool After Dark screen savers on each machine including the little space game one.
They never figured out how I did it, but they did put two and two together that I was the one who had done it. They tried to suspend me for 2 days for it, but my Dad argued that they weren't providing interesting classes using the technology. Not only did I not get suspended, next year they ended up making Sim Earth into a class and using it as a teaching aid.
Thanks Dad, I miss you.
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#296User tip, don't close a Finder window with ^W. At least if that maps to closing the browser window on your system. :-)
Seriously, it warms this old programmer's heart to see the beautiful old-time Macintosh user interface. That was good stuff.
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#297This is so cool, and I've just spent an hour reliving Prince of Persia, but there's some sort of sticky keys setting (not Easy Access, I checked, it's off) made the gameplay _exquisitely_ frustrating since Shift is the key for sword attacks---when the sticky keys turned on, some of the shift presses would be held in a buffer and not go through to the game.
But did it stop me from playing for the full hour? It absolutely did not.
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#300It's exactly how I remember the Macs my grade school was using back then. Click around a little bit, and boom, it is frozen. Do you wait? Do you force quit? The watch gives little feedback.
Hah same. If it had kid pix it would be just like when I was a little kid.
Kid Pix is available as a JS app: https://kidpix.app