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Seeing as I got Dark Castle as a Christmas gift in 1986 (?) and opened it up to play it right away, I was surprised to NOT see a Christmas tree there when I played again the next day! Great memories - happy holidays to all!

Gotcha, that makes sense. And sorry yes, I meant “Open Using Template…”. My point was merely that it’s possible to investigate what’s going on with these PICTs without ResEdit crashing. It doesn’t help you recover the images, because I don’t think these are actually PICTs. It’s some other...

I like a weird mystery so decided to take a look. You can prevent ResEdit from trying to display thumbnails of the list of PICT resources (and therefore maybe crashing if there’s junk in there) by opening the “PICT” resource type icon while holding down the Shift key, or by typing Shift-Return...

Cool stuff. I have two 68K games coded up in THINK C that are 90%+ done, hoping to finally get the time and motivation to get them to a Public Beta stage, maybe coinciding with this effort. The Sound Manager isn’t a System 7 thing btw. It goes back to the Mac SE and Mac II ROMs circa 1987...

Meli Cafe at 540 N Wells is one of the best casual breakfast places I’m aware of, and is definitely walkable from the Westin on Dearborn, if that’s where you’re staying. (There are multiple Westins.) If you want something fancier, NoMi at the Park Hyatt is wonderful, with lovely views of the...

Ha! Thank you @lilliputian … that’s his clavicle? I really thought it was a polo collar …

I’ve always wondered who that “Brainstorm guy” in the logo is. Were they like “hmmm can’t come up with a good logo for our super fast nifty accelerator … how about a random guy in a golf shirt?”

My specific experience was attempting to use hot glue to prevent a coil-shaped, springy wire used to install a Radius Accelerator 16 from bouncing around and making noise when moving the Mac. The wire was, I believe, used to transmit some sort of signal between the accelerator and the logic...

@Elemenoh what is the particular issue with acetic acid? Maybe related but, @This Does Not Compute I have observed that ordinarily hobbyist hot glue can prevent logic boards from working properly. (Easily repaired by scraping the stuff off.)

I think this change is amazing! Thank you for trying it out! It is so much easier to peruse recent activity now.

Respectfully disagree here, here’s an example from this morning. A whole screenful of “Latest activity” is nothing but reactions, mostly on posts that are already recent and/or active. This is a common pattern: someone logs in and while browsing the site, reacts to a bunch of recent posts...

@eric no, because that view sacrifices the (very useful) message previews. If one uses “What’s New” to browse posts, you have to click into every post to see what’s actually been added. If I may quote myself …

Hi, enjoying these forums but there is a UX thing I can’t quite figure out. To browse daily updates, I would like to see a view that lists new posts only (not reactions) and includes a small preview of each. If I go to the “New posts” view, I see a list of new posted content only, but with no...

I’m just a Mac guy, but distorted 9” Mac CRT displays are typically fixable by adjusting the little magnetic washers mounted around the periphery of the CRT neck.

You should actually be able to do this by writing a function taking no parameters and sticking a pointer to it in the global variable DragHook. I’ve never done this, but it’s documented in Inside Macintosh: Volume I. Try it! #include <LoMem.h> void MyDragHook() { if (TickCount() > ...)...

Can you explain what you mean here? Unless you are calling WaitNextEvent in your rendering loop (which you hopefully aren’t), you are getting 100% of the CPU (aside from interrupt servicing …. Which you could turn off if you really wanted to 🤪 ). How would parallelism make this run any faster?

Very pretty! I believe the fixed point routines (which incur function call overhead) are typically slower than floating point if you have an FPU or an 040, though it probably depends on the use case.

If you’re really paranoid you can patch _ExitToShell. I am pretty sure the OS forced quit handler calls it for you!

I would expect your kAEQuitApplication handler to call a common CleanUp() function that you would always call when preparing to exit the application, which function should reset the system event mask.

keyUp events are masked by the system by default. If you ever want to see a keyUp event, you need SetEventMask(everyEvent); first. On older Macs (pre-MultiFinder, I think) this is a systemwide global, so you should always put it back when you’re done.