Released version 1.6 of my QuickDraw view application.
The most significant change is support for pattern operations.

#quickdraw #retrocomputing #classicmac #computergraphics #vectorgraphics

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

‪Eloise Powers‬

'Gouldian Finch.

The Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae), also known as the Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia.'

A Pride Bird.

Tonight, I'm just sorting through my latest retro downloads... mostly stuff I found on the Internet Archive.

And... "Holy cow!" This must be the earliest version of "Microsoft Office" I've ever seen! "WIN OFFICE 1.00". Everything's on 5.25inch disks and it doesn't even have a combined SETUP.EXE yet. You just pick what you want and then you're being thrown into a full-screen DOS session to go through the setup process. It features "Word 1.1", "Excel 2.0d" and "PowerPoint 2.00". This is fun!.. albeit in a strange way.

Source:
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-office-1.0-for-windows-1.0-1990-09-english-5.25-1.2-mb

#RetroComputing #Microsoft #Office #Word #Excel #PowerPoint #Retro #90s #Win3x

#macOS #programming people, I need some help.

I have #Java code that parses a CSV file that was written by Microsoft Excel. It therefore needs to know which character encoding was used.

On Windows, the Java system property “native.encoding” is set to Cp1252, which matches what Excel writes. On my Mac, however, native.encoding=UTF-8, but Excel writes in MacRoman!

TextEdit also assumes CSV files are MacRoman when reading them.

Anybody know how Excel and TextEdit choose their default encoding?

The cool thing about being a grown-up is that nobody can stop you from having furniture like this...

#robot #bedside #table #BotLife

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location?

https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com