Re: gnome-shell port for Apple II

[Shawn Thompson <superfox436 gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Shawn Thompson <superfox436 gmail com>
> wrote:
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>> 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!
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>> Of course, to prove I'm not pulling your legs, here are some
>> screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/yH4Z1
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>> 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 >:)
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> 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.