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Comment · 7 months ago
I'd say there is a zero percent chance of this ever happening :D The original Apple TV was an Intel Core Solo with 256 MB of RAM and an nVidia GPU, running a modified Mac OS X 10.4 that booted into something similar to Front Row instead of Finder.
Comment · 2 years ago
As far as I recall, none of the USB drives of the iMac era could read 400/800K GCR disks, they were PC drives that could only use 720/1440K disks. The Imation SuperDisk drives could also use their own 120MB “floptical” disis. Later versions extended it to 240MB, and could also write 32MB to a standard floppy disk. MFS refers to the file system used on 400K disks. 800K disks used HFS.
Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder why the prebuilt Mac OS 9.2.1 VM has disappeared from the UTM gallery
Comment · 2 years ago
I learned Objective-C and Cocoa in the days of manual reference counting. I use Swift for new personal projects, I don’t plan to rewrite the old ones in Swift for no reason, but I may add new features in Swift even if not strictly necessary.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Apple IIc was not a Mac
Comment · 3 years ago
I did something similar, but targeting macOS on x86_64, so a lot of things were available through catalyst: https://github.com/zydeco/aah

I abandoned it when macs with Apple Silicon were announced, only some simple apps could run (GeekBench would crash through the Lua test iirc)

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Will it have a spatial file manager?
Comment · 6 years ago
The EFI firmware is validated by the T2, which then passes it on to the x86 CPU. I assume this modification would not persist after the T2 reboots.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Not to be confused with Vapor (https://vapor.codes), the server-side Swift framework
Comment · 7 years ago
That wasn't the QuickDraw that came to my mind
Comment · 8 years ago
Is it just me, or do the pictures on chapter 3 and 4 look like prototypes with a 5.25” drive?
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't like how it's a closed source binary that's downloaded as part of the install process. Realm used to be like this too, but they open sourced their core later, I wonder if ObjectBox has similar plans.

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