On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shawn Thompson <superfox...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Despite the fact that Gnome-shell isn't truly "complete" yet, me and a > friend have actually begun to create a version of it for the Apple II. > Now, you might be thinking, why would you want to change the desktop > of an Apple computer? Didn't they invent a lot of the GUI norms? The > reason, is because we can. Note, it's still incomplete, but I've > actually managed to get some of the window behaviours down correctly, > though in a 2D monochrome way of course. Still, the recreation of such > an advanced,highly complexicated and EASY window management system > within the confines of such hardware is an achievement on its own! > > Of course, to prove I'm not pulling your legs, here are some > screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/yH4Z1 > > The first picture is the shell running on an emulator. You can see > that it is able to run Apple II native apps, alongside the ability to > search through them and other files in your storage medias (we're > still working on it, it takes about 46 seconds from the striking of > return for it to give results). The second screenshot, unfortunately > taken with my friend's crappy cellphone, shows it running a calculator > app on an actual Apple IIc computer. > > Once we figure out how to get it into a format that can actually be > edited on a normal modern computer, we will see if we can put the > source code up on the Gnome GIT repository. The code ''is'' rather > fascinating to look at too. You'll love how we did it >:) > I suppose you want translation too, huh? :-) I must admit that's quite an interesting thing. But good grief, Apple ][?? Crazy man... sri
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