Friday, May 9, 2025

Mac Themes Garden

Damien Erambert (via Hacker News):

Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.

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What I call “recording” here involves taking “live” screenshots of the themes being used on a Mac OS 9.2 installation running in UTM and combing through each archive to properly record every scheme’s informations (author and release year).

This process is, to put it bluntly, a bit bonkers because it’s mostly manual, but I feel it is worth it.

See also: John Siracusa and GUI Junkie.

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Back when having a Mac was fun instead of arduous in the name of performative security.

That MineShaft theme, coming a full decade before Minecraft, is really something to see.

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