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Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by psczvnadfjk »

munificent wrote: post #166
dmix wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the purple color used in the "Platinum" interface theme in Mac OS 8/9, even the scrollbar is purple: https://i.imgur.com/WwFdpJH.png They even offered a crazy "Memphis" art themed option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSLWbFUG_ig "High-tech" wasn't very pretty either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBUgDnPT8Ps https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appearance_Manage...

I love that color too. Fun trivia that I discovered doing pixel art way back then: That color is blue. It appears purplish, but it's actually a desaturated blue with hue right at 240°. Something about the lack of saturation and brightness gives it a purplish cast.

That seems similar to the "perwinkle blue" that was used as the default background in Apple IIGS ProDOS16 / GS/OS. In that case it was done with pairing white pixels with blue pixels.

Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by alana314 »

mbauman wrote: post #69

Man, I miss all those Ambrosia Software games (Apieron, Barrack, Escape Velocity, etc). I love how many are pre-loaded there, but the few I tested all seem broken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia_Software

Oh I was really hoping Barrack would work!

Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by adolph »

IIsi50MHz wrote: post #344
adolph wrote: post #163

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Agreed, 6 was the high point, 7 wasn’t bad and 8/9 were skeuomorphic slow lipstick on the core OS pig. Gimme 6 with original iPod any day of the week.

I started with System 6, and after getting 7.0.1, would only begrudgingly go back to 6 for apbs that needed it.

IIsi was my first self-owned one so I largely started on 7. I discovered 6 from using a PB100 which could fit 6 and Word 4.5 in a RAMdisk persisted through restarts by the PB100's pseudostatic RAM. 6 for me at the time was the modern day equivalent of a distraction-free writing environment. Similar to using an iPad of a couple years ago in terms of how silent and instantly receptive it was to my inputs.

Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by CydeWeys »

Cyphase wrote: post #301
Naracion wrote: post #285

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> I love to see great usages of my work in the wild like this. Out of curiosity and ignorance--what is the work you're referring to here which is being used for the project / website? The comment makes me feel it's the (dot)app TLD, in which case--fascinating! But also what does it even mean to work on something like that?

I believe GP is the lead engineer of Google Registry. .app is owned and run by Google.

Indeed that is correct. For more information see:

https://registry.google

https://nomulus.foo (our open source software that runs our TLDs)

Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by phendrenad2 »

mdasen wrote: post #70

I've always loved Apple Platinum (the Mac OS 8 and 9 interface). I'm not a UI/art person, but the gray color they used always seemed so clean compared to the dull gray of Windows 95/98. Likewise, it wasn't the blinding white of light-mode in macOS/Windows today. The purple used was soft and pleasant, unlike the harsh yellow of folders in Windows or the harsh royal blue of Windows progress bars. Plus, everything had l…

I would take Mac System 6, 7, 8, 9, OS X 10.1 aqua, windows 95, 98, ME, or XP over Windows 11's GUI.

Re: Mac OS 9

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Post by aj7 »

adolph wrote: post #163
aj7 wrote: post #108

It’s amazing how much more central search is in modern OS’s. This feels more like the original’84 Mac, but gussied up. I like OS6 better. It was 10 years ahead of anything else, except perhaps Amiga, in the hands of a developer. This Mac OS9 actually looks like it came from a low point in Mac’s penetration and power.

Agreed, 6 was the high point, 7 wasn’t bad and 8/9 were skeuomorphic slow lipstick on the core OS pig. Gimme 6 with original iPod any day of the week.

The low point was when someone at Apple had decided that dragging a document over a print icon to print the document was an important innovation. That’s about the time I switched to Windows for 18 years.
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