Did I really forget to show the "XP pretending to be 98SE" side of my server's icon set? I can't find one in my timeline... oh well.
I've been on other things this week, but here's the complete overview.
As you can see, 10.4 isn't beyond proof-of-concept for the same "small sizes for older OS, bigger sizes in a different style for newer OS" trick I used for XP vs. Win7 and I'm currently just reusing my Win7 icons for Linux.
#retro #retrocomputing #windows #icons
I've started to polish up the classic Mac OS versions of my retro fileshare icons. #retro #retrocomputing #windows #icons
...if anyone wants it, the tool is a shareware thing Icon Archiver in "Large Family" view mode.
...though the actual editing work mainly involves ex-shareware-now-freeware named Iconographer and Graphic Converter 5.x pending me discovering how to edit icons in Netatalk-flavoured AppleDouble resource forks directly on Linux so I can use GIMP for layers and select-by-color.
...and the .ico files for my retro fileshare now have higher-resolution versions for Windows 7... with the sizes carefully chosen so that XP will pick the dithered 98SE-originated 48px and below while Windows 7 will switch to the smooth ones at any size above that.
I wound up having to slice, dice, and redraw Windows 7's Libraries icon to get the kind of folder art I wanted to use for a base.
...and now some retro fileshare icons for the OSX 10.13 side of my Intel macs... or really any mac that prefers SMB.
Most were just done by making a silhouette in Inkscape & feeding it to folderify-v2, but Mac_PPC and Win7 were hand-done, OSX_PPC required hand-tracing to get that gloss, and DOS required some trickery because folderify-v2 strips padding. Win9x is probably going to need to be redone by hand for the same reason. #retro #retrocomputing #macos #osx #icons
I've continued to work on the icons for my retrocomputing fileshare. Here's the current state of the icons for the Samba side of things.
The urge hit me and I decided to create some nicer icons for what my /srv/retro looks like when viewed from my Power Mac G4 through Netatalk.
I'm a perfectionist, so I'm sure I'll go back to fine-tune things like that win16 icon later. I have an SVG source for the logo, so I can tweak the size to fix it hanging a little too low.
(`serials.zip` is password protected keys for stuff I paid for. `UNSORTED` is temporary.)
#retro #retrocomputing #macos #icons
Does anyone have any tips for reducing Debian's initramfs boot time beyond `MODULES=dep` and `COMPRESS=lz4`? I don't care enough to take on having to manually run a new kernel build every time an update comes down, but I'm having trouble finding an equivalent to Archwiki's "mkinitcpio/Minimal initramfs" page which explains what further customization hooks there are.
(I'm setting this thing up as an sccache node, so there's no GUI and it's running unattended-upgrades, but that doesn't mean I can't try to get the boot times as low as maintainably possible. I've got another one I might have to resort to running Archlinux on to get boot times appropriate for my "fake the Weecee I can't afford to build by using a fullscreen 86box" idea.)
For fun, I decided to theme up my retro LAN's file server to match the OS each folder is for.
I decided to do the Mac 68k stuff first, and I got a little carried away with seeing what I could do without relying on CSS, so what you see is an interesting mix of "tables for presentation" plus role=none and aria-hidden=true to absolve my sins. Now to retro-test it.
(Please excuse Firefox's flaky pixel positioning when rendering the fan-made Chicago and Monaco TTFs.)
I've been using COVID as an opportunity to deep-clean the couple of used Unicomp buckling-spring keyboards I snagged at a good price as spares (since they don't make standard US104 layout anymore) and I noticed that one of them not only had the separate keycaps and keystems, but that it had a whole bunch of different colors of keystems, so I decided to have some fun putting them back in.
(Yeah, the keys that are always one-piece designs are yellowed. I'll order some replacements eventually.)
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