vga256Feb 12, 2023

i spent the weekend researching mac os x Aqua interface elements, and stumbled upon this classic collection of #OSX icons from 2000.

in the early 2000s, PixelJerk aka Samuel Krueger was one of the first to publish high-quality Aqua-themed icons for the new Mac OS X operating system.

few other icon designers demonstrated such skill and creativity with their icon sets.

it took the entire day, but i (by hand) converted each of these 200 Macintosh Icon format files into PNG and ICNS formats used in modern macOS. 😓

pixeljerk.com has been offline for 20 years... huge thank-you to macmonkies.com for keeping the only copy of these icons that exists on the web!

macOS version:
https://rootmarm.com/pixeljerk_icons/PixelJerk_macOSX_ICNS.zip

png version:
https://rootmarm.com/pixeljerk_icons/PixelJerk_PNG.zip

macintosh system7/8/9 version:
https://rootmarm.com/pixeljerk_icons/pixeljerk_pack_macintosh.zip

mac garden entry:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/pixeljerk-os-x-aqua-icon-collection

Show threadThe Life of BrianFeb 12, 2023
@vga256 Well done! There are so cool.
Show threadvga256
@Brian_Mahoney cheers. they're pretty adorable - i love the insects and christmas balls 😆
Feb 12, 2023 at 10:51pmWeb
Show threadThe Life of BrianFeb 12, 2023
@vga256 I remember trying to put OSX on a very old Mac. It took hours and hours. I had my office in my bedroom back then, I heard a bing or some sound at about 4 AM. OSX installed and all of these lovely icons on the screen! They were lovely.
Show threadvga256Feb 12, 2023
@Brian_Mahoney 😅 i remember the chief complaint about OS X 10.1 and 2 were how unbearably slow they were at the time
Show threadThe Life of BrianFeb 12, 2023
@vga256 It was the computer. Damn, I wish I could remember which one it was. You'd laugh, for sure.
Show threadvga256Feb 12, 2023
@Brian_Mahoney i can't imagine much worse than the time i ran Win95 on my 486 SX-33 😓
Show threadThe Life of BrianFeb 12, 2023
@vga256 I really didn't expect to find a retro computing group here. This is great fun. I'd stopped for quite a while but it's fun to be back into it.
Show threadvga256Feb 12, 2023
@Brian_Mahoney it's a surprisingly varied population - far less homogenous than other places i've been :)