Recent content by Mike68k

"You *ARE* the father.. of modern media computers!"

^^ This. The dock was a direct descendant of NeXTstep - not the control strip or the launcher, etc. NeXTstep had a dock but often shown on the right (IDK if it was moveable).

This photo right here. Hence the image looks stretched vertically because it’s taller than it should be.

The SE/30’s built in screen. The size of the display is bigger than it should be. To be stock it needs adjustment. 7 in x 4.7 in is the size the screen image should occupy. This leaves noticeable black space above and below the image between it and the bezel. From your pics it looks like the...

When I first got back into the vintage Mac game I was going to pick up a free SE that the person couldn’t sell for anything and wanted it to go to a good home. He showed me the other random stuff he was getting to get rid of. “You don’t want the Quadra?” “Nah I’m really just interested in...

Love these stories. Thanks so much!!! I read the whole folklore.org and the book that had the same content. Love love these stories. Would love to hear your persona story as well. How’d you join Apple. Your different roles. Etc.

Note your projected screen looks like it’s not the right size. It shouldn’t fill border to border. Minor quibble but you strike me as a person who wants it set up just right!

This is a very cool project. How’d you learn all this back end AI stuff? Anyway congrats on the release!

Thanks! Yes a looooot of pdf searching to go through the documentation from apple in order to sort through things…. look up which book it’d be in.. then open that book and look it up there… Fun times! Someone posted it on macintoshgarden which made me happy. My little brick in the vintage...

Great ideas all. On the front of “feeding it” other source codes for idea- that’s super interesting. I did that just yesterday with a doom port called FastFoom and asked the AI to study the code and see if there are any ideas etc that could apply to this project and it made a list where about...

There is a nice readable markdown document in the repo called performance_history that lays out the incremental performance enhancements and measures that were tested and it leads with a table capturing the performance impact of each option in the Options… screen. It did a nice job laying out...

I understand your perspective but will give you the full picture. I’m as big a skeptic / critic / sometimes cynic / concerned citizen as you’ll find when it comes to AI. Especially when it comes to safety-critical applications, mental health, the environment, etc. This effort probably took...

Thanks! Not easy to get a good set of dithering settings. the O and P keys adjust gamma, and the [ and ] keys adjust black pt. and the ; ‘ keys adjust white point (options screen indicates it as well in case I had a typo). — So you could play with those settings at runtime. But I haven’t...

Actually if anyone has a tricked out SE/30 I’d love to hear how higher end settings perform. If Snow emulator with the Speed up option is any indication (runs 2-3x speed) it outta be pretty nice even with higher quaity and full screen…. I’d love to get you a dev build (just logs a bunch of...

Yea!! Lots of tweaks available in the Options… screen at startup. Some with keys to modify in game too. Honestly any could be mapped if you really wanted