(Don’t you just LOVE that icon? I really spent a lot of time creating it (yeah, right!).) Welcome to Macintosh is an application that, when launched, will play a cool sound and show a dialog-box. That’s just about it.
Requirements
Got absoulutely no idea (ehh ->), accept that it needs ATLEAST 750 kb of free RAM and that it runs fine on my Mac LC. I have also gotten reports saying that it crashes on a IIVX and Quadra 650. If it does now, I don’t know. If it doesn’t do anything when you launch it, make sure that you don’t have allocated to MUCH memory. Anything above 1000 kb is probably to much (I haven’t done much testing, but it fails to do anything with memory allocations above 2000 kb).
Welcome to Macintosh runs best in 256 colors. The Apple logo looks really bad in 2 and 16 color mode, but ok in 4 color mode.
How do I "install" it?
Easy. Put it in your Startup Items folder in your System folder and it will launch every time you restart your Macintosh. To prevent it from opening each time you start up, you can press shift as Finder starts up (after the extensions have loaded) or remove it from the Startup Items folder. You can of course just double-click it, but that wouldn’t be the same...
Who made this?
This extremely useful little piece of software was made by Daniel Stødle. If you like it, feel free to send me a postcard or an e-mail. My e-mail adress is Hakon.Stodle@kunst.hitos.no and my snail-mail adress is
Daniel Stødle
Fogd Dreyersgt. 21
N-9008 Tromsø
NORWAY
Of course, Welcome to Macintosh is FREEWARE. If you want the assembly source code to this application, drop me a note, and I’ll e-mail it to you. It’s not an outstanding piece of programming, though.
Version history & future versions...
This time I MEAN it: Sorry, I’m not planning on any new updates after this one. (Eh? Sorry about THAT?) One of the reasons to that there probably won’t be any updates is that Welcome to Macintosh was programmed in the assembly language... But of course, if you REALLY would like me to make new versions of Welcome to Macintosh, you could send me some money instead of a lame postcard or even lamer e-mail message...
OK, I realize that version 1.1 actually IS a newer version. If it’s anything to you, I used aprox 5 minutes to update it (that’s not very much, you know).
Oh no! Now I have to add a VERSION HISTORY as well! Darn much typing I have to do now. I should never have updated Welcome to Macintosh in the first place.
Thanks to all you TWO guys who bothered to send me an e-mail. It really made me feel good to know that atleast TWO people in the world had downloaded Welcome to Macintosh and actually tried it out. One of them even bothered to fire up ResEdit and listen to the sound (acording to him, it was "cool") after it had crashed.
1.1 - Minor change (maybe a MAJOR change?): Replaced the assembler runtime code with code previously stored in the data fork. Welcome to Macintosh may work on a IIVX and a Quadra 650 now. Who knows?
