Jessica @cat@awoo.space

One day I’d like to publish a game on Mac which is OSA scriptable so you can just TAS it using AppleScript

(Uploaded this to YouTube for posterity, and because it seems nobody else ever has https://youtu.be/9XemuvSXkFY)

I got a high score on the Macintosh version of Time Gal, AMA

today I overcame the anxiety to make an international call to shift an appointment so I wouldn’t be uh, in the middle of a flight during it; fear me, for now I am unstoppable

that Siri says “australia” with the “r” on the end is fucken aussie representation, mate

TFW you find a copy of a weird LaserDisc game obscure enough Wikipedia doesn’t know the port exists https://awoo.space/media/ghuc7uuOveT-cQhNEnk

when you’re porting a LaserDisc game but all you have is MacroMind Director and QuickTime https://awoo.space/media/MNfz1zIEnGr7Z5rnyUc

My new aesthetic: Mac OS 9 booting in 640 by 480 on an LG UltraFine 5K display

My computer crashed while running SheepShaver, so when I started it again and logged in it booted to a full-screen Mac OS 9 startup screen

https://awoo.space/media/lhqOjT3DkOIkunfyG-U

Honestly that we lost Mac OS’ “Outline” and “Shadow” text styles in 2001 is one of the biggest travesties of modern computing

my new aesthetic is “1997 toyota sienna on the back of a tow truck”

the fact that tools available for testing a cron job are:
• wait for the job to run and see what email you get
is a real pain in the arse

that there’s no “run this in a cron context so I can see if it can find the commands I need” sucks

Ah, nice to see Apple finally calling back the “Milk” ShapeShifter theme https://awoo.space/media/mXK4G11aLDLTTot4qt8 https://awoo.space/media/AzHv-5T6jbkjWmk3ovQ

TIL that Max calling himself a “coffee achiever” was a reference to a thing

I feel like I need a Pismo PowerBook and the full HyperCard Reference in paperback in order to really immerse myself in the mood – a VM with Acrobat Reader 5.0 is *kinda* close, though https://awoo.space/media/mlItOimqMptfuJhv2qo https://awoo.space/media/0oQGSqLegpjIrXDiBBY

Mac OS 9 seems to get slower and more unstable the more RAM you give it, which seems backwards