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SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) HyperLook was like HyperCard for NeWS, with PostScript graphics and scr
by DonHopkins 2y ago
SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS))
HyperLook was like HyperCard for NeWS, with PostScript graphics and scripting plus networking. Here are three unique and wacky examples that plug together to show what HyperNeWS was all about, and where we could go in the future!
https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4 https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go...
The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines — October 1989
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-october-1989-19e2dfa4d91e https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...
Open Window Manager: An X11 ICCCM Tabbed Window Manager written in Object Oriented PostScript, for X11/NeWS
https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/owm.ps.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/owm.ps.txt
- boffinAudio 2y agoOh, this is so great - thanks for sharing, I'm going to dive deep into this crazy, weird, Postscript rabbit hole .. (Been reading POC||GTFO for years, but now I finally think its time to write something..)
- infinite8s 2y agoHi Don, have you ever been tempted to reimplement the Hyperlook system in the browser (similar to the revival of the old Smalltalk systems pre Smalltalk-80)?