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Aqua/Aero aren't good either, to be sure. But Metro is awful and no mistake. The fetish for making everything out of unadorned bordered rectangles, the random coloring (I particularly hatelove the vivid red X button that remains vivid red no matter what your system color scheme is set to - and...

Yeah, there's a huge difference between flat but well-differentiated (as in classic Mac OS) and the stuff they're doing now, which is flat and largely undifferentiated (it's seriously getting harder and harder to tell where or what anything is because they seem to have developed an outright...

That's the impression I get from the folklore.org articles. I doubt they ever seriously considered that for the final product. Though it certainly would've fit in fifteen years later, when pointless, counterintuitive skeumorphism was all the rage...

As a general rule, the answer to "should I get a mid-'90s CD console that didn't come from Sony, Sega, or NEC?" is "not unless you really like tedious, poorly-acted FMV games." (Or, if it's the CD-i, "not unless you want to pay way too much money to experience some of the funniest things made by...

Yep, this is normal. PCs, Macs, even my PDP-11 slowed waaay down in its boot time when I kicked it up to the full 4MB.

If the address bus is (effectively) only 24-bit, does it really matter if the ROM is 32-bit clean?

Man, all I find when I go digging in the woods is dead bodies.

The way I recall, you had to use a system extension to do a startup sound. We had one that had a dozen random quotes from old comedies...

On the other hand, practically nobody except OS geeks runs hobbyist OSes anyway, so it's not like you're alienating a huge potential userbase by not having a wide variety of preexisting applications, and if you go with Yet Another Freenix you're possibly losing what potential interest you might...

Themeable is good, but consistent underlying behavior is more important. That's where Linux really trips up, since there's approximately 47 different UI toolkits and 11,000 deviations from even those meager standards.

I can't speak for the OP, but: because *nix is boring and old hat. Whether it's Linux or BSD or something even more esoteric like OpenSolaris, "Unix clone" is the absolute most vanilla, uninteresting choice you can make when deciding to jump into OS development. At that point, you really have to...

Whatever else it might be, "Avatar Shark Drive" is a terrific name for a rock band.

My personal site isn't specifically designed for it, but last I checked it was readable in Netscape 3.x, albeit not very pretty: http://www.commodorejohn.com

Something like this would be my guess as well. I don't know what the IIGS video circuitry looks like, but that looks an awful lot like the most significant of the character ROM row-select address lines has come disconnected and it's just cycling through the top half of the character a second...

Oh joy, another Cory5412-brand Why Nobody Should Use Vintage Macs As Anything Other Than Museum Pieces discussion.

WPA wireless networking, maybe TLS since everybody's getting all obsessive about encrypting websites now. Other than that? Not a whole lot, really.

It probably wasn't the hardware so much as the lack of time. The Mac boot-beep already does a hacky approximation of lowpass filtering, and I can think of a couple other quick-and-dirty ways to mimic analog-style subtractive synthesis that would be passably performant on an 8MHz 68000, but...

Hah, even just looking at that sets the music running in my head :D

Looks like a job for polystyrene model cement.

If you're worried about what the wife will say you could always send one of those 840s over my way :D