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It says last updated in 2022 but I swear this list reads like it's from 1997. I appreciate it nonetheless. I browsed around the site and I found this collecti
by kristopolous 3y ago
It says last updated in 2022 but I swear this list reads like it's from 1997.
I appreciate it nonetheless.
I browsed around the site and I found this collection which I like a bit more
https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index3.html https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index3.html
It appears to be in roughly alphabetical order by topic, which is quite an accomplishment
- klooney 3y agoThe cool kids don't make x11 apps anymore.
- codetrotter 3y agoWell then again, some things are timeless yk
- AnonCoward42 3y agoYou might be onto something > Dock app that simply counts down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds left until 00:00 January 1, 2000. https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#wmy2k https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#wmy2k
- codetrotter 3y agoWhat does it do now? Count increasingly negative numbers?
- koprulusector 3y agoRandom thought: should they be “decreasingly negative numbers,” since technically moving left of 0 is a decrease?
- codetrotter 3y agoPossibly. To me, sign and absolute value are often separate concerns. The series 1, 2, 3, … is increasingly positive. The series -1, -2, -3, … is increasingly negative. But I understand, and accept, that others may think differently about numbers.
- MobiusHorizons 3y agoI think you could probably say either decreasing or increasingly negative, but not decreasingly negative, because that would describe a sequence that starts from a negative number and moves towards zero (but hasn’t gotten there yet)
- noam_k 3y agoI would argue that using the -ly suffix here is wrong: The series 1, 2, 3 is increasing (and) positive. The series -1, -2, -3 is decreasing negative. The series -3, -2, -1 is increasing negative. Edit: formatting
- lmm 3y agoNo. They may be decreasing, but they're not "decreasingly negative", quite the opposite.
- kristopolous 3y agohttp://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/dockapps/time.html#wmy2k http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/dockapps/time.html#wmy... put in printf("%s\n",temp); around line 52 and you'll see it is indeed negatives. This very much confuses this line copyXPMArea((*p-'0')*7 + 1, 0, 8, 13, k, 2); But hey, with a change of the targettime you can re-release this as wmy2k38 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem)
- Brendinooo 3y agoI looked at a screenshot from one of them and it says it's from 2002
- kristopolous 3y agoI think it's best to assume it was a multi-year project that concluded a long time ago. Countdown to y2k and NCSA mosaic would have been of pretty limited use in 2002 and some of this software didn't exist pre-2000. There's probably meta information on the images or a last modified date if people really want to map things out. Regardless, it's a time capsule either way
- toast0 3y agoNot sure exactly when Micropolis was added, but much later than 1997.
- ajot 3y agoIIRC Micropolis was "born" for the One Laptop Per Child project, so arround 2008 maybe?
- DonHopkins 3y agoSimCity for Unix was originally released as a commercial product from DUX Software for OpenWindows/NeWS/HyperLook in 1992: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/simcity/simcity-review.html https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/simcity/simcity-revi... Then later DUX Software released a collaborative multi player version of SimCity for X11/TCL/Tk in 1993: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/simcity/simcity-announcement.html https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/simcity/simcity-anno... https://groups.google.com/g/comp.newprod/c/5KWv25ckYHc/m/MgGQlPy-GTYJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.newprod/c/5KWv25ckYHc/m/MgG... Then it was finally re-licensed under GPL-3 for the OLPC as SimCity, and for any other use as Micropolis in 2008 (with the multi player stuff disabled because the X11 network protocol was not safe or simple enough for kids to use on a mesh network): https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/01/simcity-goes-open-source-as-micropolis/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/01/simcity-goes-open-sou... https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI remember some of them from my first forays into linux, around 20 years ago now. Which is late by some people's standards, but still.
- kristopolous 3y agoI remember checking some of these out from CVS and killing a bunch of processes so my machine didn't hit swap when compiling it. You'd use ctrl+alt numpad keys to switch resolution and color depths sometimes if you don't have a lot of video memory. You could get high resolution, low color or low resolution high color.
- mcpackieh 3y agoTo be fair, a list of things obscure in 2022 will naturally be weighted to dated software that became obscure with age. I'm surprised to see xterm on the list, but I guess most people are using more modern terminals, or urxvt if they prefer it retro.
- arcade79 3y agoStill using xterm, thank you very much. :)
- dunham 3y agoThe obscure part of xterm for me was the built in tektronix (vector) terminal emulation. I remember digging up a .dvi viewer that could display on tektronix by drawing a _lot_ of horizontal lines.
- lanstin 3y agoThat is badass. Tex lives on but DVI need not.
- signalToNose 3y agoWMY2K seems a little obsolete