Why “finder” is being discussed
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Looked into transposition and I think it's going to be challenging considering that OnKey doesn't play the music. I have built in a range finder in the new version which picks u…
by dsmurrell · Oct 31, 2026
Fair. It's not a vast difference though. I would love to play with a hundreds-of-megaHertz class emulated classic 68K Mac on a Raspberry Pi! :-) The PiStorm delivered this on a…
by lproven · Oct 31, 2026
Right. There were several interesting skins and Finder-esque modifications of Workspace Manager. You may have seen a “Beaker” build of OSX with that. The Kodiak pre-release had…
by diskzero · Oct 31, 2026
I hear you. Yes, the 10.0 Finder had swaths of commented out code and missing features that were present in 9. Spring loaded folders comes to mind. They came back at some point.
by diskzero · Oct 31, 2026
That is amazing to read. I never knew. I thought it was Workspace Manager, adapted to feel more Mac-like. There is even a clear line of descent: 1. The Rhapsody developer previe…
by lproven · Oct 31, 2026
I didn't mean that the 10.0 finder was a reskinned NeXT GUI file management application (as you point out, it clearly wasn't and was a huge thing that had a bunch of heritage co…
by walrus01 · Oct 31, 2026
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