It's difficult to think of two computer programs that had a greater impact on me than MacPaint and HyperCard. They both helped me, a kid that just wanted to draw pictures, realize that computers were unquestionably for me too. Thanks for everything, Bill Atkinson.

WIRED

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74

Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

Tonight I’m playing the first known LGBTQ game, Caper in the Castro by C.M. Ralph! It’s a point-and-click murder mystery made in HyperCard, released in 1989 via BBS. “It’s not just a game… it’s a Gayme!”

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I’m continuing Myst tonight! Last week I solved a piano puzzle and took a rocket to a new Age! It’s quite misty here, and the sky is bright cyan 🤔

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Happy #MARCHintosh! I’m playing Myst tonight for the first time in 30 years! But first I want to talk about HyperCard, a wonderful program by Bill Atkinson that inspired not just Cyan and many other game devs, but also the web. We can still learn a lot from it!

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The most important part of a video game manual is the page where there’s a cartoon of the main character playing their own video game Second most important part is where they are calling the hint line

AllTinker recently released a patch for Gabriel Knight 1 that fixes the worst of its unfortunate audio issues:

Gabriel Knight CD (1993) Repaired Speech - All Versions \ VOGONS

You can download the patch here: https://alltinker.itch.io/gk-speech-fix Even better, they’ve worked with sluicebox to submit a patch to ScummVM:

GitHub

SCI32: Implement GK1 CD DPCM8 speech audio repair by TheAllTinker · Pull Request #6292 · scummvm/scummvm

This PR implements a realtime repair method for the overflows which occur within DPCM8 speech audio for the CD/talky version of Gabriel Knight: Sin...

Just a checkbox to fix it! ✨ So excited to play this again now.

There are a lot of dumb things my computer does but this is like… really high up there #macOS #MacDev

In macOS 15, Apple removed the option to right-click and choose “Open” to bypass Gatekeeper and run an unsigned app. Instead, you open the app, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, and click a button to allow it.

Updates to runtime protection in macOS Sequoia - Latest News - Apple Developer

In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notar...

This process doesn’t work in macOS 15.1. Given the notice above, this seems like an unintentional bug to me.

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Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1

Many MacOS users are probably used by now to the annoyance that comes with unsigned applications, as they require a few extra steps to launch them....

There’s an easy workaround! Remove the quarantine bit in Terminal: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Example.app #macOS

I’m live now with unsecretcrush, continuing The Crimson Diamond in Chapter 3: Investigations! Don’t worry we brought plenty of Jordan almonds for everyone~ 🕵🏻‍♀️🕵🏻‍♂️🔎

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I finally ordered some of AnnK’s Dank Zines recently and they just showed up the other day. The quality is really nice and they came with a bunch of cute stickers! Had to get the issue with Mac Games and Swamp Witch obviously. Immediately after I ordered these there’s a new issue with The Crimson Diamond on the cover soo… time to place another order

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