Recent content by adespoton

This lines up much better with my own recollection (I know, two anecdotes does not constitute evidence). I can definitely see Windows 95 getting its taskbar inspiration from Arthur OS, but the NeXTStep bar can draw a direct development line back to Accent. And, of course, similar panels were...

I usually think of the Dock as being the descendant of the Launcher app... but I guess the Launcher app (or whatever it's called now) is really the descendant of that, and Control Strip is more in-line with the Dock (or possibly QuicKeys).

Depends on what code's being loaded -- if it's all PPC code, then that's not going to work on a 68k OS. If that can be tweaked to load into the ROM instead of into System memory, then it'll load before the 68k OS, and so PPC should work. All that said, my OS 9 install works just fine with...

Ooh... I actually (distantly) remember ads for that one!

Started with duck.ai to find the original sources, then looked those up to corroborate :) First round gave me a bunch of inaccurate junk, so it took a few minutes of digging. Helped that I also vaguely remember going through all this ~30 years ago, so I knew when I was on the right track --...

It should be in the main window? But that doesn't matter so much as taking a copy of the program and opening it with ResEdit so you can edit the settings.

The instructions show up in MiniVNC when you run it.

Timbuktu works flawlessly on everything from a Mac Plus through to something that can run 32-bit Intel binaries -- so everything up to macOS 10.14. If you don't have a device in that range, it also functions flawlessly in an emulator. If you want to go the MiniVNC direction...

The display appears to be a Goldstar-built 14" shadow-mask CRT. These types of monitors were generally using the 1.8-gamma color space. The choices you list are all incorrect; most are for non-Mac devices, with the Trinitron being the exception -- but your display is NOT a Trinitron display...

That was one thing I really appreciated when I eventually changed companies :D I got to deal with other people's bodges and left mine to other people to clean up!

Funny thing about that line: long haul trucking was one of the first industries impacted by AI. But yeah; the barrier to entry has always been there. The problem (as I see it) is that you graduate with your shiny CS degree, and are looking to do something transformative in the computer design...

The TP-Link Archer AX series runs a bog standard Linux kernel under the hood, with DDP properly handled at the kernel level. But as @NJRoadfan says, depending on the configuration, the router OS could still be mishandling certain packet types.

Ever tried HyperCard? I did a 2D top-down game in HyperCard in 1989. Once I figured out the techniques, it wasn't very difficult. You can even manage open world if you want, by programmatically generating the terrain, loading in sprites dynamically.

I don't think Snow does NuBus either; MAME's the best bet, although QEMU also supports NuBus.

Do you have access to another Mac with Firewire? My solution with an iMac DV SE (slot loading) was a Firewire connection to my Mini, from which I was able to partition the internal drive and restore the install DVD to the partition. Hold down option to select boot partition, run the...