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I belatedly open-sourced Dash Board for Newton, my popular 1997 UI enhancement app: https://github.com/masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS https://github.com/ma
by veidr 11y ago
I belatedly open-sourced Dash Board for Newton, my popular 1997 UI enhancement app:
https://github.com/masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS https://github.com/masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS
The README there also walks through the process of getting all the emulators and whatnot running on a modern machine so that you can build it (or other Newton software).
Because Newton software source code was composed of many small NewtonScript files in a proprietary binary format (with resource forks!), I also exported t he source code into a text format that can be read more easily:
https://github.com/masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS/blob/master/Dash%20Board/DashBoard2013.proj.text https://github.com/masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS/blob/m...
- kanwisher 11y agoGreat post I enjoyed reading your github on your newton code
- Gracana 11y ago> And just to be ridiculous, Minspector features a Newton version of a Mac OS 8-style window, complete with zoom, resize, and minimize, so Mac-based Newton programmers will feel right at home. Man, that threw me for a loop. I saw that window and for a moment thought the Newton was way more than I ever realized. [edit] Just finished reading the whole README. What an awesome story. I'm really glad you took the time to share your project and it's history.
- girvo 11y agoThat was an amazing story, thanks for sharing it! It's great to see more and more computing history saved for the future.