The cool thing isn't so much os9map (yes it's cool) , but the fact that the data wasn't locked behind some wall and they were able to do whatever they wanted with it. There are a lot of cool ideas out there that are thwarted because the data is just locked away behind something only a very limited web gui can access, and you are at the mercy of people who's greatest ideas are ways to make the most horrible money extracting experience they can.
16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.
nhubbardβ’about 1 hour ago
Would love to see the source code for this and the underlying details like Classic or Carbon, and the libraries mentioned on Tinker Different for TLS, HTTP/2, and Unicode
guerrillaβ’about 1 hour ago
Hmmm. I wonder what the most beefed up OS 9 computer would be... I loved that OS so much.
Currently my "big" native 9.2.2 system is a MDD G4 with a Sonnet 1.8GHz dual 7447A upgrade, 2GB RAM (1.5GB useable in OS 9) and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm sure there's a config more extreme than that out there. It is a pleasure to use even though it's one of the windtunnel systems.
benj111β’5 minutes ago
Quite a lot. I remember my dad's SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram or some ludicrous figure, compared to my 8mb 486.
timw4mailβ’about 1 hour ago
Officially? A single cpu G4 tower. Beyond that, I'm not sure.
robot_jesusβ’about 1 hour ago
I love stuff like this. Even though I donβt have a machine capable with running OS 9 natively, Iβm glad this exists. Looks awesome!
ccamrobertsonβ’about 1 hour ago
This is really cool, time to dust off an old PowerPC. I've been thinking about building apps for old Mac OS versions for a while with the advent of LLMs, glad to see someone is doing it.
ktallettβ’about 2 hours ago
Great work developing for OS9 still. I had taken started developing in Think C for a few months as a fun side project to work , and it still has some interesting ideas for development. Plenty of communities for this nowadays still.
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