Ed tells the story of his efforts to make System 7 look like Yosemite by creating his own Kaleidoscope scheme. In the process, he remembers just how painful it was to work in a fragile, crashy, data-loss-prone OS.

Links for this episode:

• Last episode: intro to Kaleidoscope
   
• ResEdit
• the large cicn hack
  • clip2cicn
  • waferbaby's pixhell cartoons
• software and tools for editing schemes
  • University of Michigan software archive
  • Emaculation
  • K official site "tools and goodies"
    includes Pink Elephants, Scheme Factory, Regia scheme template
  • Basilisk
  • Stuffit Expander (OS X version!)
  • ClarisWorks emulation kit
  • GraphicConverter
    • current version (9.4)
    • old version (5.9.5)
    • ancient version (2.2)
• scheme format reference guides
  • K2 resources [PDF]
  • K2 intro [PDF]
• type and creator codes
• xScope
• features that haven't always been in Mac OS
  • Quick Look (10.5)
  • window edge resizing (10.7)
  • app switching
    • Application menu
    • LiteSwitch [WayBack Machine]
    • Application palette (8.5)
  • click-to-open menus (8.0)

Behold, the (un)finished product: