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The most interesting part of this article (for me at least) are those early Mac screenshots - The Flounder? and that next one with not-quite-Chicago/Geneva font
by spilk 9y ago
The most interesting part of this article (for me at least) are those early Mac screenshots - The Flounder? and that next one with not-quite-Chicago/Geneva fonts in the Finder? Where did those come from? I realize JLG had been with Apple since the early days of Mac development but I've never seen anything like those before.
- joezydeco 9y agoJean-Louis kind of speaks incorrectly here when he says "Very old-timers will remember the pre-Mac File system called The Flounder", unless by old-timers he means Apple employees that were on the Mac team. There's a little more about the early Mac software history at Folklore.org, including another screen shot of what eventually became Finder: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Early_Demos.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being_Born,_Part_2.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
- rbanffy 9y agoFunny... I converted Cream 12 for use in Apple II programs. For the old-timers, it was a shape table and multiple draw commands of numbered (ascii value - 32) shapes would allow you to write proportionally spaced text to the graphical screen. It was the same format Take-1 used (we used their programmer's toolkit). So, Cream 12 came down from Altos all the way to our Apple II+'s.
- nsxwolf 9y agoYou can see a lot of this stuff if you read through the early Mac team stories on http://www.folklore.org http://www.folklore.org.