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#91
Virtualization / Re: Previous for Mac OS X 10.1...
Last post by jeffburg - Oct 24, 2025, 07:28 AMWhoa, while researching this I saw that Previous is available via MacPorts https://ports.macports.org/port/previous/details/
#92
General Discussion / Re: Inside NeXT Book 2025 edit...
Last post by kokomuck - Oct 24, 2025, 06:39 AMI just sent him an email asking him to join our forum here.
All the best,
Kokomuck
All the best,
Kokomuck
#93
Virtualization / Previous for Mac OS X 10.13 Li...
Last post by jeffburg - Oct 24, 2025, 05:43 AM@andreas_g do you happen to know the cause of Previous requiring Mac OS X 10.13 or newer? I looked and SDL 2.0 works on 10.5 and up. Perhaps it is a restriction of Hatari?
#94
General Discussion / Inside NeXT Book 2025 edition
Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Oct 24, 2025, 01:09 AMI want to get a copy of the book. Hoping the author might make his way around to this forum to offer the book.
#95
General Discussion / Re: NeXT history and folklore ...
Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Oct 21, 2025, 04:50 AMDooo itttt! 
#96
Virtualization / Re: What Needs to be done for ...
Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Oct 21, 2025, 04:49 AMSome interplay depending on the icon, but basically all grey.
#97
General Discussion / Re: NeXT history and folklore ...
Last post by jeffburg - Oct 21, 2025, 04:16 AMWhen I got my black hardware I got it from an engineer that worked at NeXT, then Apple, then Google lol. He was a true glory days of Silicon Valley engineer guy. I still email him occasionally. I should really ask him if he would be willing to share some of his stories from working at NeXT.
#98
Virtualization / Re: What Needs to be done for ...
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 21, 2025, 12:55 AMQuote from: ZombiePhysicist on Sep 22, 2025, 05:37 PMIn case you want to see it on the bottom of the dock. [...]
It's surreal seeing a bland gray background behind dock tiles like that on a modern Apple product.
It's like there's a little gremlin at the company that keeps the UX department up at night making them feel insecure about how their icons aren't as cool as NeXT ones.Do all old icons get that gray color, or does it vary based on the luminosity of the image?
#99
General Discussion / Re: Forum display issues on ol...
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 21, 2025, 12:51 AM@jeffburg, @jeffburg, and @jeffburg: I've investigated the source for this and it looks like the issue is that SMF uses a flexbox to display thread lists, which is a CSS3 technology that was first introduced in 2017. Disabling the display: flex rule produces a similar effect on a modern browser:
I'm not 100% sure why they did this—thread lists are the quintessential example of non-data content that is appropriate to lay out with a table. (I have my theories, though. The people who do SMF's frontend code are a bunch of unkind stereotypes who left 20-year-old memes in the CSS files. They're presumably very fad-prone.)
It will take a fair bit of tinkering to fix (because of all the side effects of switching from divs to tables) and it'll definitely screw up the updatability of the forums, but I'll get it sorted as soon as I can!
I'm not 100% sure why they did this—thread lists are the quintessential example of non-data content that is appropriate to lay out with a table. (I have my theories, though. The people who do SMF's frontend code are a bunch of unkind stereotypes who left 20-year-old memes in the CSS files. They're presumably very fad-prone.)
It will take a fair bit of tinkering to fix (because of all the side effects of switching from divs to tables) and it'll definitely screw up the updatability of the forums, but I'll get it sorted as soon as I can!
#100
Virtualization / Re: What Needs to be done for ...
Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Oct 20, 2025, 10:54 PMJust an FYI. I am SUPER PSYCHED waiting on Previous 4.0!