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| Motorola 68k assembly emulator?
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I wonder if there exists a m68k emulator for Mac OS X. I need to do a small program (in assembler) for a course I am doing at the moment but havn't found anything like it.
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 18, 2002 at 09:47 AM, in Developer Center |
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| Crossplatform database access?
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I'm going to make a program in C++ and I would like to make it run in MacOS X, Linux/Unix and Windows. I am going to make the UI platform specific but would like to have as much of the logic as...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 27, 2001 at 01:46 PM, in Developer Center |
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| I think the problem with X Windows applications...
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I think the problem with X Windows applications isn't the way they look but the way they're arranged. Even if Apple did make it possible to run X Window applications they would still be hard to use....
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 21, 2001 at 12:49 AM, in macOS |
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| One thing I really like in OS 9 and before is...
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One thing I really like in OS 9 and before is that when you move a file it's moved instantly. There is no half a second wait, not even a tenth of a second, it's instant. I'd like that and if the same...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 19, 2001 at 05:45 PM, in macOS |
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| If an icon is designed to be viewed in 64x64...
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If an icon is designed to be viewed in 64x64 pixels it's going to be sharper then an icon designed for 128x128 pixels which is scaled down to 64x64 or even 32x32. And icons which are icons instead of...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 19, 2001 at 03:11 PM, in macOS |
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| I like the idea of a simple way to translate...
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I like the idea of a simple way to translate programs. They should release a program for that (free ofcourse). It would be reall useful for shareware and freeware developers. Just think about it. You...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 19, 2001 at 09:48 AM, in macOS |
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| I agree. It's better to have a few really good...
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I agree. It's better to have a few really good applications than a huge load of crap applications and that is one of the Mac's strength. There might not be 500 irc clients but the quality among the...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 19, 2001 at 07:26 AM, in macOS |
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| All right, I suppose that shipping MySQL, PHP and...
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All right, I suppose that shipping MySQL, PHP and the likes with OS X would be overkill for normal users. It would be very useful for web developers though.
I agree that an Apple website...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 17, 2001 at 10:08 PM, in macOS |
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| Why buy a Mac to run Windows software when you...
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Why buy a Mac to run Windows software when you can buy a PC much cheaper? Sure Macs are nicer to look at but please! People buy Macs because they are easy to use and that is because developers...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 17, 2001 at 09:16 PM, in macOS |
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| I agree that Apple should work more with Open...
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I agree that Apple should work more with Open Source projects. Work on Mozilla and create a new much better htmlrenderinglib, create a nice gui frontend to MySQL, wrap up open source projects in nice...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 17, 2001 at 08:53 PM, in macOS |
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| I can't say I've reard one single argument...
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I can't say I've reard one single argument against themes in this thread that I can agree with.
1. Microsoft's theme format while in XML isn't open (and will probably never be hacked)
So...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41 PM, in macOS |
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| MySQL with a nice GUI
A GUI to Apache so you...
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MySQL with a nice GUI
A GUI to Apache so you can configure it for real not just on/off
PHP4
I don't know if these are already included but it would be nice with some firewall software and maybe...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 14, 2001 at 10:55 PM, in macOS |
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| I think that they should at least make it an...
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I think that they should at least make it an option (a two button mouse). Most of you (of the people who have replied) think that a second mouse button is unnessesary but how about a scrollwheel?...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 13, 2001 at 04:15 PM, in macOS |
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| How about plugins? Lets say you've installed some...
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How about plugins? Lets say you've installed some PhotoShop plugins by dragging them to the Photoshop bundle (a cool way to install plugins IMHO) how do you uninstall them? I guess most people agree...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 13, 2001 at 09:58 AM, in macOS |
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| There are more to themes than just looks. I would...
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There are more to themes than just looks. I would love to have a platinum theme without animations, genie and transparency if it would make the interface feel faster (and it would). Yes I know it...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 13, 2001 at 06:10 AM, in macOS |
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| Like I said in my original post I to like the...
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Like I said in my original post I to like the bundle installation method but there are installations that can't be done like that. For example driver installation and plugin installation. And I bet...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 9, 2001 at 08:07 AM, in macOS |
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| What MacOS X needs (manual)
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I'm not suggestion that MacOS X should ship with a manual but rather a cd containing movies about how to use MacOS X and the concept involved. There would be several different movies for different...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 9, 2001 at 12:16 AM, in macOS |
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| What MacOS X needs (installation/uninstallation)
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I think what OS X is in most need of is a central place/app/utility with a simple uncluttered interface which you can install/uninstall programs. It must be easy to install application both...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Feb 8, 2001 at 11:43 PM, in macOS |
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| Have a look at
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Have a look at
http://www.realbasic.com/mwrb/cubies/utility.html
Seems to handle most of your ideas but it's not a screensaver module but a screensaver application. It's made in realbasic so a...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Jan 23, 2001 at 09:26 PM, in macOS |
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| Oh no, not another strange widget just...
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Oh no, not another strange widget just duplicating functionality of other controls. And in MacOS X it's even more useless than in windows. In windows you have the commands "Move", "Change Size",...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Jan 22, 2001 at 10:01 AM, in macOS |
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| I don't think that is the way things would happen...
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I don't think that is the way things would happen if Apple were to release the cocoa api for windows.
I don't think many windows-developers would like to learn to program in cocoa just so they...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Jan 20, 2001 at 09:46 AM, in macOS |
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| From what I've read it seems to me that a file on...
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From what I've read it seems to me that a file on the shelf will "poof" when dragged to the desktop but moved when dragged to a window. Is that correct?
If it is I think it's pretty strange. I've...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Jan 16, 2001 at 08:28 PM, in macOS |
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| No it isn't! ...
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No it isn't! http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif Or maybe I've just dreamt that the syntax for creating classes is completely different in java and c++ (and obj c). imho creating classes in...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 14, 2000 at 06:04 AM, in macOS |
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| I also think it's possible to please almost...
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I also think it's possible to please almost everyone as mentioned in the previous post. If just a few things would be added to MacOS X everyone would be happy (well most of us ...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 13, 2000 at 06:53 AM, in macOS |
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| One thing I really like with windows that in my...
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One thing I really like with windows that in my opinion reduce screen clutter is the ability to do real maximization of windows. If that would be possible in X I would be very happy. I also like the...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 10, 2000 at 09:23 PM, in macOS |
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| Some of you say that you prefer a stable OS over...
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Some of you say that you prefer a stable OS over a OS with higher percived speed. While this is probably true for most of us what do you guys think is so bad with giving the user an option to turn of...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 10, 2000 at 08:58 PM, in macOS |
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| If they (Apple) were to release a windows port of...
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If they (Apple) were to release a windows port of the api the only result would be that all Macintosh applications (made with Cocoa) would run on windows not the other way around. I don't think that...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 8, 2000 at 07:35 AM, in macOS |
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| I agree but there is one nice thing about readmes...
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I agree but there is one nice thing about readmes and that is that you don't have to start the app to read it. What if the application crashes at startup? I like the idea of the help menu being THE...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 2, 2000 at 11:54 PM, in macOS |
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| I think people think to much about what newbies...
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I think people think to much about what newbies think something does. Do we need an os that can be grasped even if you havn't used a computer before or do we need an os that is effective? I think...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 2, 2000 at 11:51 PM, in macOS |
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| I think that having a readme file kind of...
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I think that having a readme file kind of destroyes part of the purpose of the whole bundle thing. An app should be just one file. If you were to have a readme file with the app you have to put the...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Dec 1, 2000 at 11:01 AM, in macOS |
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| [quote]Originally posted by Millennium:
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[quote]Originally posted by Millennium:
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It's consistent in the way that you use the trash to remove something but often when you trash stuff from within applications you can't get those...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 27, 2000 at 09:36 AM, in macOS |
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| Paths to important directories
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Is there any way to find the paths to a user's home, favorites, apps, docs directories from Cocoa? I've found NSHomeDirectory() but that's just the home directory how do I find all the other...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 25, 2000 at 12:08 PM, in Developer Center |
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| Exactly my point!
So which way do you guys...
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Exactly my point!
So which way do you guys think it will be, and which way do you prefer?
1. Folder names are in English.
2. Folder names are choosen at installation, is the same for all...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 25, 2000 at 12:47 AM, in macOS |
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| I agree but I don't think it should be in the...
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I agree but I don't think it should be in the dock, I think the top left corner and I mean the absolute top left corner not top but ten pixals from the left side. That's one thing that is bad with...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 24, 2000 at 10:08 AM, in macOS |
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| But wouldn't it be logical if the folders were in...
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But wouldn't it be logical if the folders were in the language you choose when you installed MacOS X? Anyone got an opinion on this subject? I for one would like the folders to be translated like in...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 24, 2000 at 10:00 AM, in macOS |
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| MacOS X and Internationalizing
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Does anyone know if the international versions of MacOS X will be totally internationalized? Will the folder names be translated or will they be kept in English?
MacOS X has nice capabilities for...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 23, 2000 at 06:47 PM, in macOS |
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| You can still make things like trashing important...
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You can still make things like trashing important files by mistake in MacOS X, memory protection wont help you there. You might install a program only to find out it's made some funky changes to your...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 23, 2000 at 08:46 AM, in macOS |
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| Just because they've spent a lot of time and...
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Just because they've spent a lot of time and resources on Aqua doesn't mean it's good. As is obvious when reading posts on these forums a lot of people prefer a minimalistic GUI without transparency...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 20, 2000 at 03:57 PM, in macOS |
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| I don't know if you've noticed but the statement...
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I don't know if you've noticed but the statement above is wrong and that's what make MacOS menus so much better than all other menus I've seen.
In MacOS you can move your mouse over a submenu,...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 20, 2000 at 10:03 AM, in macOS |
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| Some more words: Two buttons (four is also nice)...
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Some more words: Two buttons (four is also nice) and a scroll wheel and cordless, and optical and...
And offcourse both arrows at both ends as an option http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 16, 2000 at 10:25 PM, in macOS |
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| Just a small question about making "extensions"...
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Just a small question about making "extensions" in X. Some of you claim that with X it's much easier to make changes to the system than with OS 9. Does this mean that ClassicMenu and PTHClock and...
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| Posted by gabrielf, on Nov 16, 2000 at 09:58 PM, in macOS |
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