I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
@mwichary This is a goddamned tour de force. Congratulations. Incredible.
I quibble with one thing: "outside of the title bar, there is absolutely no text present here.” But do you mean words? Numbers are text in my thinking! As opposed to only symbolic elements.
@mwichary (editors never stop poking)
I think you’ve invented a new kind of storytelling. Not just embedding the emulator, which is cool and I gather not unique, but the narrative you wrap around it. I love something that can only be told in one medium—to duplicate this article, you can't do anything but create a machine or environment capable of emulation.