You know Shawn, your timing is slightly suspicious. :-)  <looking at date>

sri

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Shawn Thompson <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shawn Thompson <[email protected]>
> > 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
> >
>
> I don't think we can even handle unicode.
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