2026-02-18 01:18 UTC
@halcyon @root42 That's fascinating. Hadn't occurred to me that you could trace the operation of a classic Mac OS app by watching what illegal instructions it calls, but based on my admittedly slim understanding of how the APIs behind 68K Mac OS worked, it makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
Very much looking forward to seeing this in the world. I've been missing After Dark for nearly 20 years at this point.
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@alexr@mastodon.online 2026-03-10 17:08
@csilverman @halcyon @root42 This was the strategy used to get existing apps to work for the public demos of Copland DR0. Bug fixing the OS one broken API call at a time or having Gestalt lie to the app about what was available. “Edition Manager? What’s that?” I’ve forgotten the full list of apps I got working, but I remember specifically doing Photoshop and Marathon, the latter resulting in one of the worst KON & BAL’s Puzzle Pages ever published.
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@katievm@blahaj.zone 2026-02-20 02:02
@csilverman@mastodon.social @root42@chaos.social @halcyon@bitbang.social Every now and then, I reinstall Win3.1 on DosBox, install After Dark, and play a few rounds of Lunatic Fringe.