QuickDraw Viewer – ICC Profiles
https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41085
#ClassicMac #color #ColorCorrection #ColorSpace #ComputerGraphics #ICC #PDF #Quickdraw #Retrocomputing
#classicMac
For my QuickDraw renderer, I'm looking for a Pict file with an embedded ColorSync profile, would anyone have such a file?
I also kind of like the latest iteration of the ancient Mac/Finder face. It has evolved so far over the years, including swapping the original user vs. machine colors. I’m glad it hasn’t become a generic “Files” app. #macOS26 #classicmac
RIP Bill Atkinson, creator of #HyperCard, #MacPaint, and much more. His software was way ahead of its time.
Myst and Riven co-creator Robyn Miller reflected on how much they owed to his software: https://bsky.app/profile/tinselman.bsky.social/post/3lr4ephezhc2g
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/07/bill-atkinson-pioneering-early-apple-engineer-dies-at-74
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#MacOS #ClassicMac #AppleLisa #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory
Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament https://arstechni.ca/hFcB #computercollecting #MacintoshPlatinum #Vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #JoeStrosnider #MacintoshSE #3dprinters #3Dprinting #classicmac #AppleIIgs #Macintosh #retrotech #Apple #Tech #Macs
why are the top corners of a macbook screen round and the bottom corners are square
is it like a computer mullet
Has anybody out there got a working config or example of making #netatalk work with basiliskii in slirp mode? #classicmac #macintosh ?
Sunday Funday! 🍻 Rescuing another 68k machine today while watching Amiga Bill! #amiga4ever #classicmac #macintosh #retrocomputing #fckafd
#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #VintageAd #SuperMac #Dance #StephenPetronio #ExpressYourself #CreativeComputing #ClassicMac
After a year of working on and off on my MacPaint geisha cross-stitch, it’s done!
32,475 stitches. Nearly 1,000 feet of black thread. The final art is about 19” x 12”- 22 stitches per inch is as small as I can work 🙂
#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #PowerMacintosh #Apple #VintageAd #PowerComputing #Macintosh9600 #ClassicMac #CreativeComputing #OldComputers
John Calhoun’s Lost Mac Games
While the original Mac isn't often considered a top gaming platform, there were neverthless some very nice games for it. One of those was John Calhoun's classic shareware title Glider. (Glider can be played on Infinite Mac's emulation of System 6—look in the Games folder in the Infinite Mac disk on the De
https://setsideb.com/john-calhouns-lost-mac-games/
#indies #retro #ClassicMac #Glider #indie #InfiniteMac #JohnCalhoun #macintosh #retro #UnfinishedTales
Surprising #goodwill find today. #classicmac #macos flying toaster #screensaver tie officially licensed for Berkeley Systems and everything!
I left it there, but after I showed the photos to my wife she suggested I buy it. It is mine now.
So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!
Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.
Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.
Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.
(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)
Tried out InterPrint on my IIfx today and I've got to say, it works beautifully!
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/interprint-112
This Chooser extension allows you to print to LPR queues over TCP/IP. But unlike the IP printing support in LaserWriter 8 (which "requires" Mac OS 8, though I think you can manually install it on as low as System 7.5.3), InterPrint works all the way down to System 6.0.5! It fully supports PostScript, too.
What this means for me is that after #MARCHintosh is over, I can repurpose my Raspberry Pi, which currently acts as an AppleTalk print server for my local network (and #GlobalTalk, by extension).
Fixed this problem (somehow) by downgrading from Mac OS 7.6.1 to 7.5.3. 🤷🏻
Myst is not writing save files for some reason. Doesn't give me an error message; it just doesn't do it, no matter what destination folder I select. Hmph.
Playing MYST as God intended…in the SheepShaver emulator running Mac OS 7.6
Today is #FloofDaughter #Mira's birthday (I decided on the day—nobody knows for sure) and the five month anniversary of her adoption (I think MY adoption by HER is just a few weeks ago, honestly 😁). It's also Hobbes' birthday (RIF: Rest in Floofiness).
In honor of this day, and in homage to the computer I loved most growing up, here's a picture of Mira that conforms to the display limitations of a #ClassicMac. It's also a hat-tip to #BillAtkinson, as it was made using his dithering algorithm (a variation on #FloydSteinburg).
It's funny to me that smooth scaling algorithms like bilinear, bicubic, lanczos, and others used to be so computationally expensive that you'd only see them in graphics utilities. NOW, you can't get rid of them.
Because of that, I've included a non-smoothed, non-interpolated 4x zoom of the same image. XD
Does anyone know how to swap the Command and Option keys on Mac OS 8.6?
I tried following the instructions from here: https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/how-swap-cmd-and-option-windows-keyboards-classic-mac-os (which worked for me on System 7.1), but they had no effect on Mac OS 8.6.
I even tried modifying the other KMAP resources (and substituting their IDs in ROv#) but that had no effect either.
#MARCHintosh #RetroComputing #VintageMac #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
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