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- Persistence/DeskClock
-
- More than two years ago, a friend and I created bit images which look like
- raised pieces of the gray desktop. The idea was to make a clock that is
- built into the desk. In the months since then, we figured out what was
- necessary to do it, and it involved a bunch of patching. We had to patch
- QuickDraw to watch while the Finder drew icons so that we could avoid
- writing over them. Allan Foster wanted to keep his ShowINIT icons visible
- after some nasty one (AppleShare, perhaps?) called InitWindows.
- Surprisingly enough, the two hacks (we dubbed Allan's "Persistence")
- needed almost exactly the same code. We merged them and the happy results
- are on the Hacks disk.
-
- LaserWriter Prep
-
- Tech. Note 31 is an exciting discussion of every aspect of Clarus, the
- DogCow. One mentioned in particular is the "wrong way" to show him. (The
- likeness of Scott "ZZ" Zimmerman, printing guru in Apple DTS is the wrong
- way!) Ed Tecot, Nevin Liber, and Darin Adler decided that DTS deserved the
- "wrong way" on their machines. We developed code and graphics to change
- the holy image of the DogCow into the classic Mac-a-Mug appearance of ZZ
- himself. This code was all written after midnight on April 3rd. We
- installed it on all the machines in DTS that morning before 5 AM. All the
- files were dated April 1st; we hope the folks in DTS appreciated it. Ha,
- ha.
-
- PS: ZZ was the first one to see it.
-
- Darin Adler
-