I’ve uploaded the Apple Silicon build of #mame 0.285 for #macos so all us old folks can emulate & relive the relic computers we grew up using on our fancy new computers. Or even play games we were too poor to get thru in the arcades. (Using sdl2 framework, of course). https://sdlmame.lngn.net/

Its also mirrored on github somewhere, but me no link to them here. Intel builds will follow later on.

So it seems #macos #tahoe is super stable as an OS but super flaky as an _upgrade_, which will be most people's experience of it.

I've been routinely updating my M1 Max MBP since 2021 and Tahoe is the first time core apps (Mail, Calendar, even Finder!) have been crashing 'unexpectedly' and restarting. I bit the bullet and wiped and reinstalled my Mac (blog post with checklist might follow) and everything seems snappier and more stable. Nothing has crashed yet (day 2).

Can you slim macOS down?

Howard Oakley answers a very interesting question - is it possible to slim macOS down by turning off unneeded services and similar tricks? The answer is obviously no, you cannot.

Classic Mac OS was more modular, with optional installs that the user could pick and choose, as shown above in Mac OS 9.1. These days with the SSV, choice is more limited from the start, with the only real op

https://www.osnews.com/story/144240/can-you-slim-macos-down/

#macOS

@cstross

#MacOS has been like this for more than a decade. There used to be a fairly decent manual page set on-line, much like what the BSDs and Illumos have to this day. But they all got deleted after lying unmaintained, and it became apparent years ago what Apple's attitude to doco was.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/239484/18044

@kithrup
#Apple #ManualPages #NextSTEP

Just upgraded for #macOS 26. The UI reminds me of the period around 2002 when teenagers would create 'cool' GNOME and KDE themes with zero reference to usability. Except with more transparency. So like some of the early Compiz stuff, which was far more about 'the technology allows this' than wondering whether anyone would actually want it.

Safari windows are all totally different colours based on the background colour for the page. And they've lost the app icon in the bar (you know, the thing that's really important for Mac apps because it's the file proxy that lets you do direct manipulation?), so recognising them is hard.

It's a mess. Apple needs to seriously think about how they ever promoted people to leadership rôles the UI group when they were so clearly unqualified.

EDIT: People always complain about new macOS / OS X. I've been using OS X since 10.1, and written two books about Cocoa programming. I assumed the complaints were overblown. If anything, they're understated. It's so bad in a bunch of totally avoidable rookie errors that anyone who has done one undergraduate HCI course would know to avoid.

#LiquidAss

is there a macOS application that can do basic audio routing/mixing? e.g., mix these inputs and send the audio to this output, then send this other input to a different output. something like Cantabile (for Windows), if anyone knows that.

at the moment i use Logic to do this, but it's rather overkill for something this basic.

#macos #audio

Good to see the excellent OmniOutliner getting an upgrade. It’s also nice to see they offer a "perpetual license" (a one-time payment gets you a permanent license to the major version) rather than going with a subscription model.

I'm curious to find out how OmniLinks compare to, and whether they're interoperable with other linking schemes (such as @hookmark’s). The idea of Apple Intelligence integration doesn't thrill me, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

#MacOS
https://mastodon.omnigroup.com/@OmniOutliner/115849392557090435

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

I've updated my binary package repository for PowerPC Mac OS X. New and updated packages for curl, git, python 3.10, apache, nginx, openssh, rsync, yt-dlp, vim, zsh, tmux, and many more.

https://netbsd.org/~nia/tigersrc/

#dreckly #pkgsrc #powerpc #macos #retrocomputing #hashtags

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

Strong suspicion I could swap out #macOS for #Linux, do better with #Minecraft and most everything else, and not do much worse at macOS-specific stuff like #GarageBand and Messages under #OSXKVM (https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM).

Anyone done this, or something similar?

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu