Show notes
Ed tells the story of his efforts to make System 7 look like Yosemite by creating his own Kaleidoscope scheme. In the process, he remembers just how painful it was to work in a fragile, crashy, data-loss-prone OS.
Links for this episode:
- Last episode: intro to Kaleidoscope
- ResEdit
- the large cicn hack
- clip2cicn
- waferbaby's pixhell cartoons
- software and tools for editing schemes
- University of Michigan software archive
- Emaculation
- K official site "tools and goodies"
includes Pink Elephants, Scheme Factory, Regia scheme template - Basilisk
- Stuffit Expander (OS X version!)
- ClarisWorks emulation kit
- GraphicConverter
- current version (9.4)
- old version (5.9.5)
- ancient version (2.2)
- scheme format reference guides
- K2 resources [PDF]
- K2 intro [PDF]
- type and creator codes
- xScope
- features that haven't always been in Mac OS
- Quick Look (10.5)
- window edge resizing (10.7)
- app switching
- click-to-open menus (8.0)
Behold, the (un)finished product:
