Human Folly about “Macintosh”

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• (social.treehouse.systems):

  #Apple broke #Asahi #Linux booting on the #Macintosh with the new macOS beta, but apparently this will be fixed according to some #Mastodon account

  on 02026-06-11
• MacBasic (folklore.org):

  the #history of why the #Macintosh didn’t have a decent #BASIC programming environment: Bill Gates bought MacBasic from #Apple for a dollar and killed it.

  on 02025-07-20
• MacPaint and QuickDraw source code (computerhistory.org):

  MacPaint and QuickDraw source code. #history #Macintosh

  on 02025-03-11
• 4 the user interface guidelines (basalgangster.macgui.com):

  Early #Macintosh #history: how the GUI evolved, what it could do, and what it couldn’t. Ends in a diatribe against skeuomorphism.

  on 02016-07-03
• 30 building Photoshop (basalgangster.macgui.com):

  #Adobe released an early version of the #Macintosh Photoshop source code, in Object Pascal, by Thomas Knoll’s Knoll Software, to the Computer #History Museum for non-commercial use; Grady Booch wrote a commentary. It’s about 1500 pages, but it’s written against MacApp, so the Basal Gangster bought the MacApp source code on eBay. He tried to compile it in System 6 with MPW 3.0, but to get it to compile in debug mode, he had to bugfix the tracing code in MacApp, which had an infinite recursion between MeasureTally and %_BP or %_EP. There were some other more Photoshop-specific hacks to get it to run, too. Surprisingly he did this on a IIci, not in emulation.

  on 02016-07-03