Lmst

there's still some work left to do, but MapClassic is pretty usable. I expect a 1.0 release this month. Still need to test system 6, performance, and add color icons.

Last screenshot is the same map rendered by the modern Map renderer. The placements are a bit different because of the font sizes, but otherwise pretty much the same.

#wardleymapping #wardleymaps #classicmac #vintagemac #system7

A screenshot of system 7 running MapClassic. The window shows a map called maturity.wmap with the text on the left pane, and the right pane showing a live preview. The toolbar on the right pane has a dropdown for different stages of evolution, and buttons to increase and decrease zoom.

The resulting wardley map rendered from a .pict file generated by MapClassic

A screenshot of the current version of map, showing the same map rendered with the modern stack.

Was there ever a ‘Demo 2’ issued?

Will never forget the the in-built music visualiser on the PS1. First thing we (flat-sharing college buddies) whacked into that was #System7 ‘s “Power of 7” and were like ‘whoooooah, this is insane’ THEN mushrooms from red and white cuboids appeared when it all kicked off and we were like double ‘whoooooah!’

Before even Wipeout got a play, this machine had turned us into The Lawnmower Man and we were blown away. A totally unforgettable experience.

Coming in as a heavy ZX Spectrum user up until the early 90s (last game purchased was Ocean’s ‘Batman’ in 1989), and Street Fighter 2 arcade that was plumbed into my local chip shop, this was next level stuff.

#NEU #SteveHillage #PS1 #PlayStation 🍄

Ein kosmisches Gitarrenphänomen: Die Reise des Steve Hillage https://xenopolias.de/2026/02/01/ein-kosmisches-gitarrenphaenomen-die-reise-des-steve-hillage/ #CanterburySzene, #FishRising, #Gitarrenlegende, #GongBand, #MiquetteGiraudy, #ProgressiveRock, #PsychedelicRock., #SpaceRock, #SteveHillage, #System7, #Tourdaten2026

System 7 :
27/03 Bethesda
28/03 Lancaster
03/04 Southampton
04/04 Birmingham + Rob Bong
11/04 Bristol + The Orb
04/06 Huddersfield
#System7 #SteveHillage #MiquetteGiraudy #telepot https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/system-7

RE: https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/115890456859997099

One good thing about the never-ending list of UI regressions in the new #MacOS (eg https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/) – is it's making one of my New Year resolutions to 'this year learn driving or Linux' seem realistic.

I've always told myself it's helpful to use leading, well-funded UI/UX to learn from it (eg, am currently setting up an online shop for our new books on WooCommerce not Civi). But for the first time since starting with #System7, there's a MacOS UI I'm praying I never have to 'upgrade' to.

'Phoenix Rising' : Steve Hillage featuring Rovo & System 7 now on bandcamp #SteveHillage #ROVO #System7 https://stevehillage.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-rising

The way icons are going on macOS, can we at least have our System 7 icons back, but remade in 512x512 pixels?

#macOS #VintageMac #Macintosh #System7

Last Week on My Mac: Drag, drop, clipping

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/04/last-week-on-my-mac-drag-drop-clipping/

<p>Many of the features we take for granted in macOS today have long histories. For the last week I’ve been looking at drag and drop using the Finder’s clipping files. Thanks to comments by <em>theam27</em> and <em>joethewalrus,</em> we know this goes back over thirty years to the heady days of System 7. Before that, transfer of information between apps relied on the even older mechanism of copy and paste, one of the original features of the Mac in 1984.</p>
<p>Since System 7 Pro (7.1.1) and more generally in System 7.5 in September 1994, we’ve been able to drag text and other contents from open documents and drop them into the Finder to save them in a clipping file. That in turn can be dropped into a document to insert its contents there. It became highly popular in subsequent years, and different types of clippings proliferated. <em>theam27</em> has identified four general types, with a further ten for internet location clippings.</p>
<p>Clipping files have proved <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/27/use-and-access-clipping-files-textclippings-weblocs-and-maillocs/">long-term survivors</a>. In Classic Mac OS their data was stored as resources in the resource fork of a file with an empty data fork. That survived the transition to Mac OS X, where it eventually became the <code>com.apple.ResourceFork</code> extended attribute. Since around 2015 clippings have also been written to the file’s main data as a binary property list. Although those cha

Who remembers #Kaleidoscope for the #Mac #System7 from back in the day? https://web.archive.org/web/20110928000634/http://kaleidoscope.net/
It makes me feel really old… 👴

System 7 live are pretty good.

(Like a cross between Juno Reactor and Ozric Tentacles.)

#System7

Mac System 7 On a G4? Why Not! https://hackaday.com/2025/12/05/mac-system-7-on-a-g4-why-not/
#MacHacks #SoftwareHacks #Apple #G4 #Mac #System7

New post: Gig Review: Ozric Tentacles / System 7 – Concorde2, Brighton (28th November 2025) https://www.moshville.co.uk/reviews/gig-review/2025/12/gig-review-ozric-tentacles-system-7-concorde2-brighton-28th-november-2025/ #OzricTentacles #System7

Oi niitä hyviä aikoja, kun jokaiselle sovellukselle oli yksinkertainen keino säätää sovelluksen muistin käytölle enimmäisraja. Pätkähti päähän suihkussa tämä. 🤔😂 #system7

🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Time travelers rejoice! 🎉 Finally, the Mac mini G4 can run System 7 natively—because, you know, who needs all those fancy modern features when you can enjoy the cutting-edge technology of 1991? 🙄
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0 #TimeTravelers #MacMiniG4 #System7 #RetroTech #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0

#HackerNews #System7 #MacMini #G4 #RetroComputing #ClassicMacs #AppleHistory

It's nice to see users here with old System 7 era icons as avatars. The icon style for System 7 is really unique since I can recognise them instantly.

#Macintosh #System7 #RetroComputing #VintageMac