Steve Boswell has painstakingly recreated classic 8-bit Atari font modern formats, originally developed for Windows and Mac systems by Mark Simonson. Steve’s version has over a hundred variations, including for Adventure, as well as...
The Apple IIGS was intended to expand on the capabilities of the massively successful Apple IIe by adding enhanced graphics and sound, while also improving the system speed. Central to the project was bringing...
In 1997, Apple released System 8 with a considerable makeover for the GUI emphasizing color. Susan Kare updated her famous Welcome to Macintosh boot-up splash screen with another inspired design; the “2-face” Happy Mac....
The Finder is the name for the graphic user interface for Macs, used for interacting with files, folders, software applications, etc. It defines the user experience in Mac OS. This downloadable file contains the...
Representing the hierarchy of disks(volumes), directories, subdirectories, and files, presented a challenge when inventing graphical user interfaces for computers. Today, we’ve settled on the folder/sub-folder/file paradigm for Windows and Macs. Early GUIs had similar,...
In September 1984, Atari sent a team of its best engineers to the offices of Digital Research in Monterey, CA. The teams goal was to port Digital Research’s GEM graphical user interface to Atari’s...
After the initial power-on chimes, and after Happy Mac (but not after Sad Mac), and just before the Finder is ready, the original Apple Macintosh computers would greet the user with this simple, and...
When booting up, the original Apple Macintosh computers would greet the user with one of two icons. Happy Mac meant that your Macintosh was operating well and was ready-to-go. As opposed to the Sad...
Several years ago, I watched PBS‘ excellent Nova: The Planets special and, among other things, it made me want to find and build a model of the Voyager interstellar probe. During COVID, I was...
