Weird Mac OSX Developer Previews

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#OSX #PowerPC #Macintosh

[mspeter]

here's a few extra facts for y'all:
- DP4 & PB are mostly similar but PB adds a toggle to switch between the DP3 & DP4 app name/icon on the title bar (will you try PB on this monster of a machine one day?)

- DP3's dock is actually a folder and you can put any number of icons you want in it, there's no limit and the dock can show icons that are 1px big at minimum. It also was part of the Finder app. Came DP4, the Dock got completely rewritten and was its own separate app (it still is to this day).
- DP3 is still compatible with assets from DP2, meaning you can have the DP3 interface with the platinum look.
- Wallpapers are hardcoded in the appearence files of DP2 & DP3, not sure about dp4, but you can change it in the public beta.
- The public beta allowed the user to change the wallpaper by going into the preference option of the Desktop app. This behavior was retained in the final 10.0 release where the wallpaper option was in the Finder preference tab. This got moved to the settings app came 10.1

[marklechman]

I’m so old I’m still impressed when I see a window moving along with its contents and not just the marching ants.

[AnonymousFreakYT]

10:04: The icons aren't SVGs. Mac OS X icons are just a collection of different size PNGs in a container file. From the earliest Aqua preview to the latest Sonoma previews.

[minty_Joe]

"Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!" ~ Steve Ballmer 😂

[LostieTrekieTechie]

I always figured that the reason that older versions of the dock had icons with backdrops was because they had not yet figured out whether or not they would be able to do scaling and compositing with alpha transparency, without nasty artifacts or color bleed.

[LlamasWithiMacs]

A neat fact: BlastApp did make it into the final release! It’s one of the examples that comes with the Xcode tools (I’m not sure about 10.0-10.2 because I’ve never used their developer tools). It comes on the 10.4 or 10.5 dvd, maybe the 10.3 developer cd.

[EnronnSierra]

I have an old PowerBook G3 Wallstreet running the Mac OS 10.0 final release. Its like an untouched part of a beach, not really much to do. I recently even picked up a box copy of 10.0 which is becoming a rare find. I noticed the 10.1 retail box copy is highly sought after for some reason. Its really great that you are maintaining copies of the early developer previews. Its pretty amazing to see how far macOS has come.

[pseudotasuki]

The graphical glitches are probably due to the OS transitioning to the PDF-based Quartz graphics system. NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, and Mac OS X Server 1.0 all used Display PostScript, but licensing it for a consumer OS was apparently too expensive.

[karmatraining]

Imagine how these devs would have reacted to seeing modern Mac OS Ventura running on an M2 Ultra with a ProMotion display and all the touch gestures

[tschak]

I used all these developer previews, and I cringed, especially because I had used Rhapsody and Mac OS X Server, and loved the evolution of the operating system into that form, to see them take what I saw as two steps back, made my eye twitch.

(p.s. the reason Carbon happened was largely due to the major Mac application programmers all saying, "WE ARE _NOT_ REWRITING OUR WHOLE CODEBASES IN YELLOW BOX!")

[cjsebes]

I clearly remember when the ad agency I was working for got their first B&W G3. We nerds were in awe of how the whole side opened down to reveal the entire motherboard and hard drives. I had a beige G3 which was a tank, but that B&W had me hooked. I'll have one in my collection at some point. So innovative.

[nickwallette]

This is just the most beautiful of Apple design language eras. The collectible, colorful computers, to OG Aqua... It's STILL gorgeous.

[mrgrumpy]

15 year old me loved Aqua when it was first unveiled back in the day but my current, 38 year old self with his huge attention deficit issues would love simple and clean Platinum. They need to bring this back.

[chadmasta]

Pre-release software like this is always so fun to me because it's cool to watch it evolve. Seeing the ones with the last bits of rhapsody left in them reminds me of a Windows 8 dev preview I used that still had a wavy Windows logo and the last remnant of the aero glass theme.

[juddjonathan]

Wow, this brings back memories. I remember trying to install DP3 on my 233mhz G3. OS X was so wildly different. I remember geeking out doing the minimize with the shift key for the first time. It was magical.

[tenminutetokyo]

Ah yes I remember the day the G3 and iMac came out. When the DP came out and there were no disk icons on the desktop I emailed Steve saying Apple was making a big mistake and he shot back “Boy are you wrong”.

[Smn]

Yes I remember the furore when MacOS X public beta came out and didn’t have ‘the Apple menu’… i.e. and how Apple reacted by bringing it back for 10.0.0 with the clickable logo on the left… as you showed in this video. Cool video!

[Miasmark]

you may want to glance at osX 10.4 server since that same tux icon is used on that as well. some things may have shunted to the server version of the OS.

[RojamZane]

So good to see these previews... At times, I do miss the Platinum of old Mac OS. As revolutionary as Aqua was the time, I like the Preview 1, where we see NeXTStep wrapped in Platinum. Good presentation.

[ProdDeity]

That Cheetah version was the interface that I fell in love with, and spent so much time changing it in Windows and Linux to mimic even the slightest way.