Comments on: What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190.

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: RoganJosh

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:51:43 +0000

sorry, I was wrong - getting my dates mixed up - it was soundapp - seems it needs a powerpc to run - how time flies…
http://www.mac.org/audio-video/soundapp/

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: RoganJosh

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:42:45 +0000

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/1963 for a software fpu - used to use this to get some demanding afterdark screensavers to work on our old Mac LC - you may have already ch osen a direction for this project but there is a half decent mp3 player that isn't too demanding cpu-wise, cannot recall exact name - maybe fileplayer or mediaplayer. Nice project, always wanted a powerbook

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: RedWolf

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:25:19 +0000

Not a bad idea, anon. If I could find or modify a simple full-screen drawing program, I could mount the touch pad right under the screen and it would be an "interactive art installtion."

The perpetual wall calendar is a good idea too. Thanks for the ideas, guys!

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: anon

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:13:05 +0000

i know!!! make it into an etch-a-sketch!

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: El Gecko

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:57:19 +0000

Personally, If I had a grayscale laptop to do that with, I would make a perpetual wall calendar, that notifies me of events I have scheduled for that day.

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: MegaKitsune

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:07:41 +0000

No prob man, if I can figure out anything better than a permanant screensaver, I'll let you know…

And thanks for making a blog that I actually love to read everyday. ^_^

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: RedWolf

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:58:51 +0000

Yeah, the Pong clock thing crossed my mind.

Up to now I have been playing with After Dark on the 190 and that's about it.. thanks for all the links, though. That will help a lot! I know running a screensaver is kinda lame, but some of them are really cool. I might be able to program a screensaver module myself.

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: MegaKitsune

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:54:38 +0000

No dice. -_- People just didn't love System 7, I guess…

You could always let it run After Dark, I guess…

http://www.pure-mac.com/screensaver.html#afterdark

modules:
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/screensaver/afterdark/barneyblaster2.02a.sit.hqx
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/screensaver/afterdark/buzzz1.4.sit.hqx
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/screensaver/afterdark/collager1.01.sit.hqx
http://www.stephen.com/ad/luna.hqx
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/screensaver/afterdark/moviesinthedark.cpt.hqx
ftp://ftp.planet.nl/pub/planet/shift/scr/SAW.sit.hqx
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/screensaver/afterdark/simacid.sit.hqx

more modules:
http://www.stephen.com/ad/ad.html
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/screensaver/afterdark/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/afterdark.html

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: MegaKitsune

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:28:49 +0000

So it's nix on the entire Gameboy deal, eh? Hmmm… don't worry, we'll come up with some good ideas…

Ever see that Pong Clock thing?
http://burovormkrijgers.nl/docs/pong.html

You could make your own… I'll see if there's something that can convert a windows screensaver into a Mac screensaver…

Comment on What Should I Hack Next? A PowerBook 190. by: RedWolf

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:50:54 +0000

Thanks for the ideas, guys. How about this? It could be a wall-mounted Game Boy playing installation that not only played random games, but also ran random emulator script recordings of people playing the games (like speed runs, or just earlier videos of you playing the game), so that even if you aren't playing it, there's something interesting going on on the screen. Or just scrap the controllers altogether and make it all display.

And if you want to get really impressive, train a neural net to play a certain game repeatedly and display the results on the screen as it's learning. Boy, it would be cool.. but a little beyond my present programming experience.