Ok, I know the name is changing, but we’ll make that official latter. For now, I thought I’d post what I’ve got in terms of icons for it. It doesn’t have things specific to JdiBoy or Pinocchio, but it looks really cool
Let me know what you think it needs. It can scale up and down as it’s in vector graphics format.
Time for a break form the serious programming stuff. Time for something fun. What’s something all geeks like? Computers. Any kind of computer. But you know what is really cool? Old school computers. And what’s better than old school computers? Living Legends of old school computers.
Well, I got a pair of living legends with all their accessories. 2 Mac SE’s with keyboards, mice, manuals, disks, and even an ImageWriter II printer. The only thing that didn’t work was one mouse. These little things are mazingly cool. They are small, portable, and farily fast for what they do. 68000 processors, 20MB HDD, B/W 9″ screen, and the famous “SuperDrive” that can read 400k, 800k, and (now) standard 1.4M floppies. The printer is a color impact printer (making that “tzzzzzrrrrrrt” sound as it goes) with ribbon for ink, but it works, too.
One of the coolest things about this is the manuals. Now a days, most computer manuals are 4 pages long, 3 of which are legalease. They just tell you what is in the box and how to plug it in. But not these things. The first one is the owner’s manual for the SE, describing in detail all the hardware. It talks about how to use the mouse, plugging it in and all the normal things, then goes on to talk about how microprocessors work, bits and bytes, how harddrives and floppy drives work, and their low level formatting, pin outs for all ports, specifications for all signals, and how SCSI works. This has it all from a hardware perspective.
There is also a manual on System 6 (the operating system on these things) that is bigger and goes into how to do *everything* on the system. There is one on how to use HyperCard, with basic navigation to changing layouts. And then there is one on HyperTalk, which covers how to script and make your own HyperCard stacks. I then have all the system disks and all the HyperCard disks, all in their little folders. This thing is the complete set.
I am preparing to publicly announce JdiBoy to the world. It hasn’t been secrete, but I am fairly pleased with the progress thus far, and would like to release a simi-stable version in part to generate interest and feedback.The latest version will be available like always, but, periodically, a simi-stable version will be wrapped out and released.
In preparation for this, I’m probably going to update some site information, reorganize the project page, and possibly redo it from scratch (keeping content). I would like feedback on what you would like to see for this, like if you think it needs a blog, forums, CMS, bug tracking or something, or if the single page works just fine. I might break it off into separate about, news, and download pages, too.
Also, I would like to know what you think of a name for the project. Vote for your favorate in the comments: 1) JdiBoy 2) RealBoy 3) GreenBoy 4) Pinocchio, or something else.
Along those lines, icon suggestions would help. Or even complete icons if you are so inclined. With a new page, a new name (or an old one), and a new icon, I can push out this release.
