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Bolkonskij
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on: November 02, 2022, 13:34
Joshua Stein (of Wallops & Amend fame) is working on a Wikipedia reader running on a bare Macintosh Plus with System 6 an up. It's quite impressive and I do hope he can get it to fully work & release it to the public. Here's the link to a mp4 video (modern gear needed) in which he cam records his coding: https://jcs.org/2022/09/29/vcfmw The source code can be found over on https://amendhub.com/jcs/wikipedia It's really fascinating to watch him produce quality software with a simple Mac Plus and Think C5. Compare that to the folks that tell you that you can't produce anything on these old machines. Watchin him makes me and my coding skills feel really humble :-D |
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cballero
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1024 MB  Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #1 on: November 02, 2022, 16:36
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Wow!!!  Uberly impressive!!! 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #2 on: November 02, 2022, 17:29
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The thing I find very exciting is to see how he does a live search via the Wikipedia API. Wow. The shell he coded up is basically 50% for a browser for System 6 (or low-end System 7!). If someone was to add the missing stuff e.g. write the code that parses the http response, we may actually even see a simple text browser for System 6! Very neat.
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