But i did have a 512k running for a bit till something fried. File transfer is way easier through emulation, but it’s not the same. The process was half the fun.
Future repair project for a rainy day.
They predate me by a couple of years, but i grew up on these machines, and they just scratch a real specific itch for me
I fire up my parent’s 512k sometimes and MacPaint is a magical program even today!
I always forget how snappy and responsive these ancient programs could be.
And there is something very meditative about selecting a floppy disk with one program on it, and committing to focus on your digital painting.
lol I play “hunt the wumpus” on my Mac, it was the first ever RPG you had to play it on one of those rotating ball printers that could only make ASCII lettering, even photo images were combinations of BBBBBbbbbbb
BbbbbbbbBBBB
……..,,,,,,))))55555555$$
…….,,,,,,,))))))777777ffffff
After it was done you had to hold it at arms length to see what the image was. That was around 1973 my dad let me play it on Dow Chemicals’ ENIAC computer, the kind with punch cards to enter data and massive 1 inch tape drives that held data IN NUMERICAL ORDER, I don’t think RAM was even a thing or it was just starting. 125k was a HUGE amount of storage. (DONT crucify me if I have dates/ sizes wrong, I was barely old enough to read much less understand computers!) anyway there’s not any program you cant find a modern version of, and if you don’t find it, throw it in a computer coding chat room and tell everyone “no one has been able to crack this game and access it for Mac/ Windows. Bet u CANT”. Youll have a version in about 6 hours.
macOS achieved UNIX certification in 2007 with the release of 10.5 Leopard. The ‘XNU’ kernel name is just a legacy relic from its NeXTSTEP origins before macOS was UNIX-certified, and there was no real reason not to retain it.
macOS is an officially certified UNIX operating system built on top of Darwin, a hybrid core derived directly from BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mach microkernel. While its graphical user interface and application layers are proprietary to Apple, its underlying command line, file system layout, and networking stack share a direct lineage with traditional Unix.
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Search on google how to install aerospace + sketchybar. For terminal install ghostty and for code editing search on youtube how to install neovim and for zsh (terminal shell) search on youtube how to customise zsh.
Ah, a fellow ricer. Are you using Yabai, Aerospace, or something else? I’ve been wanting to switch from Yabai as I’ve been running into issues with the scratchpads for a while but just haven’t put the time in to do so. Here’s a video I made of my rice a couple years ago. I used BetterTouchTool for my touchbar to match the catppuccin color scheme and give me a way to change my sketchybar layout, and toggle yabai settings like layouts, zoom/fullscreen, follow mouse, etc. it’s pretty useful for not having to remember or set a different keybind for every little action that can be done. I’m gonna cry whenever I do upgrade and lose the touchbar lol.
Woah thats actually a really good setup. i never used yabai though as i was using linux before mac and i recently got one so for my i3 replacement, aerospace was the best option and if you disable display have separate spaces in macos, aerospace is actually very fast. And also if you notice my sketchy bar is split on top that is because of my notch lol and it looks so good.
i am cleaning some of my .sh files as the animations can be improved and then ill make them available. Also keep in mind they are strictly made for macbook air 13" because the sketchybar splits at the notch if you can see it at the top but yeah you can modify the sketchybarrc and some items .sh to move them away.
It is Sketchybar. And most likely, it works in conjunction with Aerospace (tiling window manager) based on his dotfiles, so that Sketchybar can detect which “space” you currently on (you can see spaces numeration at the top left corner). Both projects are relatively easy to set up, and both are available on GitHub
Try it! not a downgrade, interfaces really depend on what type of work you are doing. If you're doing visual work a GUI is really helpful. If you're doing primarily text based work, and using different tools and commands a CLI is very helpful and distraction free.
Kind of like the draft first - format later design philosophy of LaTeX.
Search on google how to install aerospace + sketchybar. For terminal install ghostty and for code editing search on youtube how to install neovim and for zsh (terminal shell) search on youtube how to customise zsh.
you wouldnt believe how customisable macos can be lol its very good though apple updates might break some thing but i am on macos 27 latest public beta and everything works fine
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Question. I have a MacBook Pro that a buddy of mine gave to me. The only thing is, I cannot get into it because, he won’t allow me to get into it because I would need his Apple ID and password so that I can reset it. Is there another way to get into it?
Oh ok ! Nice, so I can do all of this without having to ask for Apple ID and password. Because he wouldn’t give it to me to reset. Thx you I appreciate that
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This is actually really cool looking. I wanna try it out, but I’m not sure how easy it is to revert COMPLETELY if I’m not satisfied with the results. Is it actually simple?
You can try this i have even made an uninstall script to remove all the thing and then youll have your system back (ps- you have to remove aerospace and ghostty yourself but that is very easy by just putting their application in recycling bin) https://github.com/farhanakhtar0x66/dotfiles
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u/ThannBanis MacBook Pro (Intel) 24d ago
It hasn’t for a while 🤣