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It was because of QuarkXPress and Photoshop. In the same way WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were dominant for business computers.

Wish someone would try to create native MacOS classic on x86 hardware.

There are so many Unix or Linux ABI compatible kernels like the recent Moss written in rust.


> Wish someone would try to create native MacOS classic on x86 hardware.

Apple worked on this themselves - and then they canned it.

https://lowendmac.com/2014/star-trek-apples-first-mac-os-on-...


Ardi Executor. There's a recent fork at GitHub. You can run m68k binaries seamlessly. You don't need propietary MacOS parts, just the software.

But if you are some software preserver, having a libre option to run legacy media it's always good for historical reasons. I am a daily libre software user but I emulate ancient machines with propietary stuff just for curiosity. As it not a personal computing device I find it fine. It's just an historical toy and not my computing device. And, well, if you want to create libre engines for old Mac games (ScummVM, SDL ports...), for sure you need to at least emulate the old OSes and run the propietary game in order to compare the output and correctness.

Also, it already exists "Mac" for x86. It was Rhapsody DR2 and it could run Classic Mac software and NeXT one too. It was like a blend of these two. OSX it's like NeXT Step concept 2.0, with few traces of Mac Classic. Qemu will run it fine.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/hands-on-with-1998s-rhapsody-...


Rhapsody DR2 is not a solution for classic Mac OS on x86. Lunduke writes:

"Unfortunately [the Blue Box] was only available on PowerPC versions of Rhapsody"

Another option is Advanced Mac Substitute. It doesn't run everything, but what it does run it runs really well. One of my goals is that you can use a 68K Mac application (e.g. MacPaint) as part of your personal computing workflow, if you wish.

https://www.v68k.org/ams/


Adding Executor does that for free as in freedom.

Edit, ah, both are similar.


It would be great if somebody tried to create an opensource version of Rhapsody DR2 that ran on X86 baremetal.

Would not even need to be binary compatible. Source compatible API would be enough.

Rhapsody DR2 is more like Classic Mac than any current MacOS.


Source compatible API it's GNUStep since the 90's.

At least the NeXTStep part; not the Mac GUI (Carbon?) one.


I will have to see if this is yet able to run Macromedia Freehand/MX --- if it is, I no longer need to have a Windows machine for that....

Now, if I can just get a nice portable with:

- largish OLED

- current gen Wacom EMR digitizer support

- decent battery life

running Linux, I can get off the Windows update treadmill....


https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/optimizations-fo...

From the website; Optimizations for windowed games improves gaming on your PC by using a new presentation model for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games that appear in a window or in a borderless window.

When these optimizations are used, games that originally use the legacy blt-model presentation can use the newer flip-model presentation instead (if the game is compatible). This results in lower frame latency and lets you use other newer gaming features; for example, Auto HDR, and variable refresh rate (for displays that support it).

It is checked by default. Hope it helps.


Think it can be used for lockstep computing.

Also seems to be a way to bring microkernel benefit to Linux. Isolate system services.


The old Finder logo is a clever ambiguous image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_image

The new Finder logo has so much meaning symbolically for me. It actually has a very ugly meaning to me.

I felt that it is the end of the road for me. My first Mac was a Powermac 7300/200.

btw, nobody ever mentioned that the red close button is next to the minimize button. This is similar to the close button being next to the maximize button on Windows. Just reversed.

On Mac OS classic the close window button is on its own. I really miss Mac OS classic.


If you have time to tinker with it, I highly recommend you spend some time with classic Mac OS! It obviously cannot replace the modern computer, but as a sidekick for your brain it is wonderful… Mac OS 9's Acrobat Reader still supports the PDF website captures by Safari in Sonoma.

I use it as an external brain. I love that the Finder is spatial and has a one-to-one relationship between windows and documents and files and icons… and I benefit from it leaving icons where I put them

And sometimes I play great 90s/2k games on my external brain :)



> Cyclone is no longer supported; the core research project has finished and the developers have moved on to other things


[Breaking News] Kawasaki announces "quadruped" type mobility! "CORLEO" like an animal appeared at the Osaka-Kansai Expo



I do not know if this will work but search for Beata Halassy

University of Zagreb researcher Beata Halassy treated her breast cancer with an unproven virus-based therapy using viruses she cultivated in her own lab.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/11/14/cancer-vir...


Consider having a look at Object-Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer

https://bertrandmeyer.com/OOSC2/


Have a look at Modern C for Absolute Beginners by Slobodan Dmitrović

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-6643-4


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