Mac System 1.0 (1998)

Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by jd3 on Sunday February 14, 2016 @12:23PM (#11099050)

I find it amazing that the bitmap fonts that shipped with Macintosh OS 1 (and System 0.85 for that matter: different 'Chicago' and the strange 'Swan Song') still work on OS X with only a trivial modification: Splice the NFNT from the resource fork into a FontForge-readable system (7 I think?) bitmap resource fork and you are left with something that is easily exportable into a modern datafork bitmap font. I've converted them all (Taliesin and Mobile were hardest to find in their original form. I still haven't found Toronto on an install disk anywhere) and they all work perfectly on 10.11.

Here's System 0.85 Chicago being used in emacs, for example. Looks great in acme as well.

http://i.imgur.com/EuO2bvF.png

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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by Someone on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:29PM (#11100300)

If you have NFNT fonts, I don't think they shipped with Mac OS 1.0. NFNT stands for 'new font', the original OS used the more logical FONT as resource type for fonts.

I guess NFNT already is a conversion of an original FONT, but my memory is getting vague. I think I know there also were FOND resources at one time, but Google doesn't help much there (to complicate matters, https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/... talks about 'fond' and 'sfnt' resources. There clearly has been quite a bit of evolution in font formats over time)

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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by jd3 on Sunday February 14, 2016 @06:29PM (#11100528)

Ah yes, you're right! I worked on this over the summer, so I must have gotten them a bit mixed up.

I copied the FONT info from each one into the NFNT portion of the resource fork in a newer file, then imported that file into FontForge for conversion to OS X-readable .dfont.

http://i.imgur.com/teGJ7qp.png

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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by i336_ on Monday February 15, 2016 @03:12AM (#11102073)

Ooh. Well... now I know what at least one rainy afternoon will be taken up with! That's awesome.

Actually, this reminds me of https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... - Windows' font subsystem is super backward-compatible too. Sometimes too backward compatible. :P

Also, nice close/resize/FS buttons! :D (Also visible in the picture in OP's followup)

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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by jd3 on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:44AM (#11104277)

Thanks! Yeah it reminds me of this video I saw of some guy running super arcane Windows 3.1-era stuff on W8/10 or something with little modification. Btw, if you have rootless disabled, I have made that OS X 10.11 theme available for download. Simply move that GraphiteAppearance.car file to the alias marked '~ Car Resources' in the Aliases folder. Make sure to backup your original, if you do.

https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/Platinum

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Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998) by i336_ on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:36PM (#11106572)

I'm not sure about 32-bit Windows 8+, but I remember the 32-bit version of Windows Vista still had the NTVDM, which is all you need for Win3.1-era apps to "just work" out-of-the-box.

With a little modification, you can run apps from Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on XP, probably Vista, and maybe even newer: http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html

Also, I admittedly have no experience with OS X, but I was recently given an old G5 to play with that I hope to get up and running at some point. This theme file looks quite fun to play with - will it work on PowerPC?

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