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Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by drewzero1 »

makerofspoons wrote: post #81
gr33nq wrote: post #25

This 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…

Now if only someone could replicate the fan noise and that old computer smell.

Don't forget the grinding/croaking of those old hard drives!

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by fitzroy »

The Warcraft startup options are reminiscent of the 'about to edit video" ritual of the time. Just need to disable all extensions and plug in a "certified" (i.e. heavily marked up) SCSI drive.

[] Quit other applications [] Quit Finder also [] Switch to 640x480 [] Hide desktop [] Turn off File Sharing [] Disable screen saver [] Hide Control Strip

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by bad_good_guy »

moth-fuzz wrote: post #69

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…

> What does one have to do to get as ... pretty of a UI

Are you being intentionally disingenuous? It is objectively not a pretty UI, it's a functional but quite ugly one.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by mihaip »

asvitkine wrote: post #12
jdsampayo wrote: post #2

If you select Thousands of Colors it changes the resolution and everything looks like negatives, I thought it only supported 256 Colors, but unexpectedly choosing Millions of Colors is also supported. ex: https://imgur.com/a/nqo8v0e

Looks like the project uses GitHub for issue tracking, so you can submit bug reports there: https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/new

This particular issue has been reported as https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/20

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by AyyWS »

carlmcqueen wrote: post #79
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…

I don't know why I never looked into it more but this comment caught me off guard. I always wondered what hotline was because a friend of mine in high school's dad was a bartender part time in the carribbean and during the summer in chicago and he would source things his son needed or wanted through 'hotline' and I could never find it as a windows user.

I used it on windows and it had a chat feature. It's how I learned about the band Yellow Magic Orchestra from some random person that I'll never meet again.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by shadowgovt »

OnlyMortal wrote: post #87
jbverschoor wrote: post #13

You know what's nice? The 13" (rescaled) 4:3 screen is easier to read than my current setup. Also, the menu's are nice and short. Very focus. I totally understand how I, and many people in the past, were able to pump out huge amounts of code in a week

Menus are supposed to have 7 +/- 2 items. Inside Macintosh Volume 1, if memory serves.

Yes. This matches to what was thought (at the time? I'm not sure if research has changed the thinking on this) to be the size of human working memory.

7 ± 2 was believed to be about how much a human could understand with zero layers of abstraction, i.e. "in parallel" (you can imagine your brain has 7 ± 2 registers, though that's a highly inaccurate model). Any larger, and your brain has to build abstractions to reference the item (i.e. item 10 becomes "the last item in the second half of that honkin' huge menu").

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by killingmehardly »

CydeWeys wrote: post #15
natly wrote: post #5

The idea that we could one day run todays operating systems in emulation (in the browser) seems so insane and infeasible but maybe one day it'll be possible. Advances in computation is one rare thing that cheers my spirit up in a world where a lot of scary trends are pointing down.

Isn't it already possible today with Wasm? Sure the browser adds overhead, but merely running an OS isn't super intensive.

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Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by mihaip »

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/

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by fintler »

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…

A few developers of the original Napster for Mac client usually hung out on FORTYoz’s (RIP) Badmoon Hotline server (e.g. catalyst). My teenage self always had fun watching them work through some problem they were facing.

On a side note, the https://hx.fortyoz.org link still works (although it points to a mostly outdated clone of ror’s original hxd).

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