- This always bothers me to see. Glad to see people cluing into it.
- Historical context: the “Premier” and “Unified” releases planned here in 1997 got canceled, and all x86 work (Rhapsody for Intel and Yellow Box For Windows) got canceled after Rhapsody Developer Release 2. Rhapsody for PowerPC did see brief public availability as Mac OS X Server 1.{0..2} and shipped both in retail box (like mine!) and bundled with Server configurations of G3 and G4 towers. The “rootless” (only applications visible) Blue Box mentioned here eventually happened when Blue Box became the Classic Environment.
Even though it's actually usable for very little, Rhapsody remains my favorite “weird dead-end Apple thing” just for the novelty of having essentially NEXTSTEP 5.x (Display Postscript and all) with a Mac Platinum UI. Copland would probably hold that title for me if any of its builds actually worked, but Rhapsody has real stability, real application support, and a real POSIX environment via its NeXT heritage: http://rhapsodyos.org/ https://betawiki.net/wiki/Category:Mac_OS_X_Server_1.x_build...
Mac OS X Server v1.2v3 a.k.a. Rhapsody 5.6 is my favorite thing to run on my Blue & White G3 — the OG New World machine `PowerMac1,1`! https://cooltrainer.org/rhapsody-in-blue-and-white/
- bmonkey325 186 days agoThanks for this. I know little about this period. I was busy in the 90s as it looked like Apple was headed for oblivion. Little did I know at working on SUN gear was actually the wrong choice.
- Don't be fooled by the word “trial” and general shareware aesthetic. Free serials are here: http://www.file-ex.com/freereg.html
- Meta: There are at least two later versions of this page in Wayback Machine, but both of those are incomplete and missing the actual list of games:
— https://web.archive.org/web/19990428015713/http://209.240.1..../
— https://web.archive.org/web/19990508074344/http://www.nt40ga...
- Hey from SF Bay. I post some times :)
Big fan of all of computer history but especially '90s to early 2000s machines. There's definitely some element of nostalgia to that since it's what I grew up on — System 7 at school, Windows 98 on the family PC, and various DOS/Win3/Win95 on my hand-me-down personal 486.
I also feel like that's the point when computers became recognizably modern and where the progression of technology stopped being entirely in my best interest, like the emergence of spyware which used to be rare enough to deserve its own term but is now just literally everything all the time. I love researching the evolutionary dead ends of computing as inspo for my personal projects, because there are so many cool ideas lost in products that didn't make it for marketplace and/or monopoly reasons.
The machine I've been spending the most time on lately is a HITACHI FLORA 270HX NW5, 900Mhz PentiumⅢ which is actually ACER OEM in disguise: https://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/OSD/pc/flora/prod/oldmod...
Pixx:
— https://i.imgur.com/chwdeJT.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/N9sFQYZ.jpeg (I have two of them, using the other as the stand there lol)
— https://i.imgur.com/LEBbY9x.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/BODkAVB.jpeg
- The most important preventative measure in my experience: don't lay CDs upside-down in the name of “““protecting””” them! I know it's counter-intuitive, because I used to do it myself, but take a look at a cross-section of a CD and you'll see why it's the worst possible thing you can inadvertently do. The data layer is directly under the label, and the bottom of the disc is relatively well-protected in comparison: https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/fig2-3.jpg
This is also the reason why all-over-print CDs are better survivors than discs whose obverse design integrates the raw silver. Note that this is specific to CDs — DVDs and BDs have polycarbonate on both sides!
- I 'member having to do that with XP when installing on AHCI-enabled SATA controllers
- Incredibly thorough write-up! I will refer to this in the future for my own pix.
> CRTs (catgirl ray tubes)
lol
- > Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended — Revised user interface
No, CS4 was the one with the new UI, not CS3: https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/23/yes-virginia-adobe-photosh.../
The only UI change in CS3 besides its ugly “periodic table” branding style is how the toolbox defaults to a single tall column by default, toggleable to 1.0–CS2 double-wide style by clicking its header. Source: Daily user of the activation-free “offline” CS3 Adobe gave out after shuttering the CS3 activation system: https://i.imgur.com/9XVQaF0.png
- I enjoyed Smiling Friends emulating this look for Gwimbly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk57rDdiExA
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