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Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns

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180 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 19:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amatecha ◴[05 Sep 25 05:03 UTC] No.45135139[source]▶
Interesting, I think you could also get at the data using ResEdit, no? Since it's just PAT# resources? Now I'm curious to try...
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1. paulsmith ◴[05 Sep 25 13:57 UTC] No.45138662[source]▶
It's a great point, and I did consider it, the trouble is, how do you get the pattern resource data out of ResEdit running in the emulator and onto the modern machine? And ResEdit doesn't seem to run in any kind of compatibility mode on modern Macs anymore either.

It's too bad because ResEdit is an amazing program, and even has a surprisingly full-featured graphical editor, including for those patterns, with a live preview mode:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulsmith/classic-mac-patt...

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2. amatecha ◴[06 Sep 25 04:15 UTC] No.45146557[source]▶
Oh, some of the emulators allow you to create a "shared folder" between the emulated OS and your host OS. At least, that's what I do with SheepShaver. Very easy to share files between the two!

Right, I thought I remembered such an editor from back in the day, for editing those patterns. When I was a kid I went all-out with ResEdit, inspecting every single resource in the System and Finder files (and pretty much every application/game I had) ... it was pretty fascinating how much stuff was so easily-editable! I renamed my Trash to "Incinerator" :)