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Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by wlesieutre »

mgiampapa wrote: post #295
wlesieutre wrote: post #44

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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…

Security at the time was an afterthought, when I was in high school on OS 9 they whitelisted what programs could open on student accounts, but if you created a custom "Open X" button in the AppleWorks toolbar it would first show you an error that you weren't allowed to open it, and then open it anyway.

The check for whether a program was on the whitelist used the executable's 4-character "creator code", so you could also change that to an allowed code in ResEdit and make anything you want open without argument straight from Finder.

I used to use "RASM" which was the remote access status monitor, and was enabled for all counts by default.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by saltminer »

Yhippa wrote: post #287
mihaip wrote: post #104

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https://oldweb.today/ gives you that experience, using some of the same building blocks.

Boy did I go down the rabbit hole today with this. I found so many sites from my past that I ended up looking up in the Internet Archive just now. I really miss the web from 25 years ago. Design was simpler and things loaded fast. The focus was on content, not chrome (and tracking the heck out of you). I know this is rose-colored glasses but hell, even interacting with the old Windows and Mac OSes was a breath of fre…

> things loaded fast

Did they really, though? Or did we just have more patience for general slowness back then? Things were simpler, no doubt, but the computers were also much slower (if you didn't have much RAM, loading a webpage would probably result in paging to the disk), the network was slower (even if you were lucky enough to have a T1, you were probably connected to it via 10 Mbps half-duplex ethernet), the servers you connected to were slower...

Don't get me wrong, I adore the simplicity and hackability of older systems, but I have a PowerMac G3, and even after maxing out the RAM at 768 MB (at launch, the max was 384 MB because there were no 256 MB DIMMs to test with), swapping the old 12 GB IDE HDD for a 32 GB CF card, fixing the ATI extensions to enable the dedicated GPU, and connecting it to a multi-gigabit network with symmetric gigabit fiber internet, there's only so much performance you can squeeze out of these things. Even loading 90s-era webpages on 90s hardware (with 2000s upgrades) is slower than loading many modern webpages on modern systems.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by duskwuff »

arprocter wrote: post #321
stuart78 wrote: post #65

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Marathon Infinity is what I was excited to see in there. Runs well too! I can't say how many hours I spent between the base game and Anvil.

I spent so many hours messing around with Forge Always wanted a proper 3D remake of Marathon - Halo didn't really scratch the same itch

> Always wanted a proper 3D remake of Marathon

https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by samstave »

zarzavat wrote: post #286
mihaip wrote: post #148

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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)

Holy hell. Thank you for that website. When I was a kid I downloaded a game called “Foodfight” from the Internet cafe. However, when I got the floppy home, I attempted to run it on my dad’s Mac but it would not launch. For the last 25 years I’ve periodically wondered about that game, if it was any good or not, and why it didn’t launch (first mystery solved, it’s written in HyperCard!). I can’t wait to tell my dad.

BitLowskii! REPORTE!

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by necovek »

saltminer wrote: post #326
necovek wrote: post #217

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I've recently gotten a MacBook Pro 14 for work, and tried out Ubuntu 22.04 RC on a laptop, and I was confounded with how fuzzy both of them look today (Ubuntu with fractional scaling, but Mac even with 2x scaling on 4k screen). Whatever setup was there on Ubuntu 20.04 which made text render clearly needs to come back (I used to use slight hinting setting, but it seems subpixel rendering is going away on Linux too). P…

That's probably because Ubuntu 21.04 used Wayland by default for all but Nvidia [0] and 22.04 enabled it for Nvidia [1], and Wayland's fractional scaling is an ugly hack (both in how it's implemented and how it looks) [2][3]. Progress is being made [4], but it's quite slow. Switch to the X session on the login screen and you should have good scaling again (also, lots of applications that do screen sharing, like Zoom,…

Thanks, good to know it's only due to Wayland, and that it's both being worked on there, and that there is a quick fix otherwise when I upgrade to 22.04.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by bitigchi »

adregan wrote: post #8

I have really been missing window shading lately (and the control strip). Working on OS X and beyond has always felt slower (animations) compared to window shading. It's been 20 years and I still prefer it.

File a feedback!

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by bitigchi »

yoyopa wrote: post #204
adregan wrote: post #8

I have really been missing window shading lately (and the control strip). Working on OS X and beyond has always felt slower (animations) compared to window shading. It's been 20 years and I still prefer it.

yeah, there's no argument for getting rid of windowshade. it's way better.

File a feedback!

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by adregan »

bitigchi wrote: post #337
adregan wrote: post #8

I have really been missing window shading lately (and the control strip). Working on OS X and beyond has always felt slower (animations) compared to window shading. It's been 20 years and I still prefer it.

File a feedback!

Sure. What’s a feedback?

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by MarcoZavala »

guywithabike wrote: post #103
robbyking wrote: post #52

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…

Hotline was full of warez and such, but it was also home to a number of vibrant, welcoming communities. I was a little bit late to the BBS heyday, but Hotline served that purpose for me and for many others. There was one called REALbasic Cafė centered around a commercial cross-platform programming language that I spent a lot of time it. I even attended conferences with other members, flying across the country alone a…

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