Steve Troughton-SmithJul 13, 2023

♻️ Recycled thread, June 22 2022

I had an inkling it might be possible to patch AppKit in Mac OS X 10.0 to re-enable the NEXTSTEP interface style after it was removed during the Developer Previews — and I was right! So here’s the shipping, consumer Mac OS X without Aqua turned on. It’s rather broken and crashy

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I did it by returning NSNextStepInterfaceStyleDefaultValue from __NSGlobalInterfaceStyle, a four-byte patch. Have fun!
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Follow-up: Platinum also works 😄 Such a fun collection of mixed idioms
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Here’s some more Mac OS X v10.0.0 with Aqua turned off in favor of Platinum, for funsies. As you can see, the UI is in a state of pure chaos. Many apps crash, open/save panels show no UI, window backgrounds are all over the place
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@stroughtonsmith I feel like it looks a little darker - maybe different default gamma value between OS9 and OSX?
Jul 14, 2023 at 12:39pmWeb