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gingerbeardman 56 days ago | parent | on: Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh ...
You're not alone! :)
gingerbeardman 99 days ago | parent | on: Is Tetris Really 40 This Year?
Are those 1984 sources from before 2009? That's the point. It was always 1985 in books and everything.
- bmonkey325 98 days ago
  I drew my conclusion from Wikipedia. I asserted I could see how one could get the date based on the code he wrote for the electronika 60. The @985 date when Tetris was playable is likely the real date. Adding licensing shenanigans, infinite Tetris, and easy spin - controversy has always been part of the story of Tetris.
  I liken it to gaming world version “Han shot first”.
  - gingerbeardman 65 days ago
    But Wikipedia is pretty clear in saying 1985
gingerbeardman 144 days ago | parent | on: Emoji History: The Missing Years
Interestingly, the SAHRP PA-8500 device that the new earliest emoji were found on had two different colour screens over its lifetime: yellow (as shown in my blog post) and grey (in fact, it's more green).
gingerbeardman 144 days ago | parent | on: Emoji History: The Missing Years
pretty cool, huh! I think you could attach them to a contact and share that contact with other users. but, of course, too early for it to catch on!
gingerbeardman 170 days ago | parent | on: Adding the “Move to Trash” function to System 7.1
I've just updated the guide. Found a much, much easier way using my favourite power tool KeyQuencer to implement it in a one line macro!
gingerbeardman 258 days ago | parent | on: JINZO Paint — vintage mobile drawing app
I find it interesting how many good ways of doing things have been cast aside in the name of "progress". When the dust settles we're often left with slower and more cumbersome but functionally equivalent methods: a net loss.
JINZO Paint is a mobile drawing app from 1999 that inherits the Japanese "Multi Paint System" way of doing things, which basically means the ability to do amazing palette based drawing whilst protecting certain colours or replacing colours. It's a non-destructive way of painting and quite different to selection/masking methods popularised by Photoshop.
Also in this post is how to run Windows CE software on a Sharp Brain electronic dictionary.
gingerbeardman 274 days ago | parent | on: History of The Graphical User Interface (GUI): A W...
A comprehensive overview of the evolution of the GUI and what was lost along the way. Comfortable to watch at x1.25 speed.
Xerox 00:47:00
Apple 01:21:00
gingerbeardman 318 days ago | parent | on: Macintosh.js - Electron app emulating a 1991 Mac Q...
This is pretty cool. I frequently use Infinite Mac https://infinitemac.org in a Flotato site-specific browser, as well as BasiliskII emulator on Mac and iPad Pro.
gingerbeardman 318 days ago | parent | on: YOYOZO (or, how I made a Playdate game in 39KB)
Thanks! And TIL about the size of original release Nintendo ROMs! Very cool.