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I'd say there is a zero percent chance of this ever happening :D The original Apple TV was an Intel Core Solo with 256 MB of RAM and an nVidia GPU, running a modified Mac OS X 10.4 that booted into something similar to Front Row instead of Finder.

As far as I recall, none of the USB drives of the iMac era could read 400/800K GCR disks, they were PC drives that could only use 720/1440K disks. The Imation SuperDisk drives could also use their own 120MB “floptical” disis. Later versions extended it to 240MB, and could also write 32MB to a standard floppy disk. MFS refers to the file system used on 400K disks. 800K disks used HFS.

I wonder why the prebuilt Mac OS 9.2.1 VM has disappeared from the UTM gallery

I learned Objective-C and Cocoa in the days of manual reference counting. I use Swift for new personal projects, I don’t plan to rewrite the old ones in Swift for no reason, but I may add new features in Swift even if not strictly necessary.

The Apple IIc was not a Mac

I did something similar, but targeting macOS on x86_64, so a lot of things were available through catalyst: https://github.com/zydeco/aah

I abandoned it when macs with Apple Silicon were announced, only some simple apps could run (GeekBench would crash through the Lua test iirc)

I made a platinum theme (and a few other mac-like ones) for xfwm some years ago: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1016308

Will it have a spatial file manager?

The EFI firmware is validated by the T2, which then passes it on to the x86 CPU. I assume this modification would not persist after the T2 reboots.

Pre-T2 macs had eficheck to verify the EFI's integrity, but with the T2 being so secure, it's not necessary anymore: https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5020911870672896

Not to be confused with Vapor (https://vapor.codes), the server-side Swift framework

That wasn't the QuickDraw that came to my mind

Is it just me, or do the pictures on chapter 3 and 4 look like prototypes with a 5.25” drive?

I don't like how it's a closed source binary that's downloaded as part of the install process. Realm used to be like this too, but they open sourced their core later, I wonder if ObjectBox has similar plans.

I think you still need dynamic codesign for this, if I try to do it my app gets killed with "Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGKILL - CODESIGNING)", unless it's attached to the debugger. I remember having this issue since at least iOS 6 or 7. The way iSH works around this limitation with gadgets is very interesting.

I don't think it's possible to do something like on iOS, because you can't write to executable pages (IIRC making a page executable requires the "dynamic_codesign" entitlement, which some Apple apps have).

I first misread that as "The Purely Fictional Linux Distribution".

"usted" in Spanish comes from a contraction of "vuestra merced" (your mercy, your grace), similar to "você" in Portuguese, "vostede" in Galician, and "vostè" in Catalan. It's still abbreviated as "Vd." sometimes in Spanish.

I can see why they haven't come up with a catchy name for it yet.

Actually, that's exactly what Uber did: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber%20app%20store&sort=byPopu...

I did something similar as an easter egg, but with classic black and white Mac UI, but I never thought to publish it as a library.

[2] is a thermal camera with WiFi connectivity, it's completely unrelated.

I was immediately disappointed by not being able to write my name (with ú and Á). It can work for Lithuanian, German, English, but not other languages that use different diacritics, as it doesn't have any others (accute, grave, circumflex, tilde, etc).

Apparently not. You need their app to set the device up (i.e. connect the device to the WiFi, and pair the bluetooth sensor(s) to the device).

The app only communicates with the Sense device via bluetooth when setting up its WiFi connection, everything else goes through a web API to the company's servers.

I haven't tried, but now I wonder if the alarm even works without an internet connection.

Given that they never released the open API or data access they promised on kickstarter, I wouldn't expect anything from them.

Every app that uses Swift embeds its own copy of the Swift runtime libraries, since they are not part of the system (the ABI isn't stable yet).

This could never happen, the USA don't have an embassy there

After getting an over capacity error, you always get a captcha verification error and have to reload the page

this is nothing like Apple QuickDraw

It seems a bit counter-intuitive that Vatican is 4th roundest, and 2nd rectangularest