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Even well into the PPC era Classic Mac OS carried that culture of fun third party software. Can't remember its name, but for example in the late 90s/early 00s I
by jwells89 2y ago
Even well into the PPC era Classic Mac OS carried that culture of fun third party software. Can't remember its name, but for example in the late 90s/early 00s I ran across an extension that gave dragged icons gravity and momentum, allowing the user to "throw" them around their desktop. No practical purpose, just fun.
Arguably the Kaleidoscope fits into this category too. While there were tame themes for it that did more tame things like make your Mac look like Windows/BeOS/NeXTSTEP/etc, many third party Kaleidoscope schemes skewed more whacky and fun than your average theme software. Ever wanted your desktop to look like a pair of jeans[0], a dwarven forge[1], 2D top-down space shooter[2], or cute cartoon jungle[3]? Kaleidoscope has you covered.
[0]: https://i.ibb.co/x1YsFqt/denim-scheme-dtdenimsit-vbpf.png https://i.ibb.co/x1YsFqt/denim-scheme-dtdenimsit-vbpf.png
[1]: https://i.ibb.co/fdXKKV2/eritis-forge-2-eitrisforge2sit-p5vq.png https://i.ibb.co/fdXKKV2/eritis-forge-2-eitrisforge2sit-p5vq...
[2]: https://i.ibb.co/TryF6VQ/boilerplatetm-boilerplatesit-vrao.png https://i.ibb.co/TryF6VQ/boilerplatetm-boilerplatesit-vrao.p...
[3]: https://i.ibb.co/cCLYpKL/monkeyparadise-monkeyparadisesit-ssjd.png https://i.ibb.co/cCLYpKL/monkeyparadise-monkeyparadisesit-ss...
- Bluestein 2y ago> Even well into the PPC era Classic Mac OS carried that culture of fun third party software. Apple knew it lived and died by third party developer adoption.- (Now is all "app stores", walled gardens and "where is our 30%", first and foremost ...)