I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

they should put classic mac os on the apple goggles so you could run gerbils in vr

Old school Mac OS had a clipboard icon in the file manager that literally let you see what’s on it.

Look at that title bar! Plenty of space to grab the window.

#MacOS #MacOS9 #ClassicMacOS

@maddiefuzz @netkitty I definitely had Neko on my 68k Macs but I *think* I had Neko on my eMate 300, too! #Newton #ClassicMacOS

Writing a QuickDraw decoder gave me some ideas on how to generate compact Pict images. This could be useful when small programs are desirable, like when they are stored in a ROM chip. #retrocomputing #classicmac #classicmacos #quickdraw #quicktime #imageprocessing https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/37513

Couple years ago I recreated Classic Mac OS progress and indeterminate progress bars with Core Animation. I really need to find a project to use them in! 😁

Also, the barber pole style indeterminate progress bars were just sooooo “Macintosh.”

I hope everyone has a great day except the person who decided to remove them from modern macOS. Ugh.

#MacOS9 #MacOSX #macOS #Mac #Macintosh #Finder #AppKit #ClassicMacOS #Toolbox

I'm now trying to handle pretty obscure QuickDraw features, which include QuickDraw comments. Many reference Technote #27 “MacDraw's PICT File Format”. Problem is, all copies I found on the web say this is now in the Claris documentation and I cannot find any trace of that one… #quickdraw #classicmacos #itarcheology #retrocomputing

WSUP ROCKS in 2.1MB RAM. Now That's What I Call Computing 9 #vintagemac #macos9 #wsuprocks #classicmacos #retro computing

Would love the iSub for this thing

I got unreasonably excited as I got a delivery notification for this disc organizer, and now I want to share this gorgeous piece of organizing joy with you all.

(Don't tell me it's already long past Y2K and all the world-ending, humanity destroying stuff that's going on. Let me live in blissful ignorance.)

#ClassicMac #ClassicMacOS #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #MacOS9

And here it is. Monday evening the bar arrived. I always imagined a bar here in my home office to be able to sit and enjoy the mountains view, and the #iMac G4 was part of that dream. I'm really happy we were able to finally make this one come true.

I still need to fiddle a bit with exact placement of things as there's some constraints. But hey, look at this. Isn't it something :-).

So, uh, rate my #WorkFromHome setup, I guess?

#ClassicMac #ClassicMacOS #RetroComputing #Korea #Nature

Okay this is really cool. #Mastodon #Apple #macOS #ClassicMacOS #MacOS9 #MacOS8 #MacOS7 #System7 #68k #PowerPC https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/even-your-antique-mac-can-use-mastodon?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=RSS

Are you such an old school Mac user that you’re still running System 7, or Mac OS 9? If you are, or know someone who is, there’s a Mastodon client just for you! 😳:mastodon:

#MastodonMigration #MacOS9 #ClassicMacOS

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/even-your-antique-mac-can-use-mastodon

They also still love Kid Pix.

#retro #classicmacos #kidpix #broderbund #imacg4

OK, I decided to use a #Rhapsody-like Marco theme with the TraditionalGreen GTK+2/3 theme given my retro revival with the #Macintosh Quadra 650. #showyourdesktop #shareyourdesktop #classicmacos

More on #Apple's Rhapsody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_(operating_system)

@nomand @neauoire why won’t anyone make that software? obviously not the trademarked and copyrighted hypercard but something as good as hypercard, but foss or actually supported?! it’s been done before that i remember but it was back in #classicmacOS era)