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Zoom for Mac OS X. Welcome to Zoom. Zoom is an advanced player for interactive fiction stories written in four major formats: Z-Code, the format used by Infocom in.
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Apple Computer company
- In Apple Inc.: Macintosh and the first affordable GUI
…in 1983, and the lower-cost Macintosh, released in 1984. Jobs himself took over the latter project, insisting that the computer should be not merely great but “insanely great.” The result was a revelation—perfectly in tune with the unconventional, science-fiction-esque television commercial that introduced the Macintosh during the broadcast of the…
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…was explicit in favouring the Macintosh, or Mac, as the new computer became known. Jobs coddled his engineers and referred to them as artists, but his style was uncompromising; at one point he demanded a redesign of an internal circuit board simply because he considered it unattractive. He would later…
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graphic design
- In graphic design: The digital revolution
Software for Apple’s 1984 Macintosh computer, such as the MacPaint™ program by computer programmer Bill Atkinson and graphic designer Susan Kare, had a revolutionary human interface. Tool icons controlled by a mouse or graphics tablet enabled designers and artists to use computer graphics in an intuitive manner. The Postscript™…
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graphical user interface
The open source community produces a large amount of software for different uses. I have already told you about open source tools for creating interactive fictions.Here are eleven open source tools to help authors be creative and productive. Beneath a Steel Sky is a old science-fiction point-and-click adventure game from back in 1994 (it was originally released on the Amiga). It's been reworked to run on OS X, and while the graphics.
- In graphical user interface: Macintosh to Windows
In late 1979 a group of engineers from Apple, led by cofounder Steven P. Jobs, saw the GUI during a visit to PARC and were sufficiently impressed to integrate the ideas into two new computers, Lisa and Macintosh, then in the design…
Read More - In computer: The graphical user interface
…scaled-down, lower-cost version called the Macintosh. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh became wildly successful and, by making desktop computers easier to use, further popularized personal computers.
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Mac OS
- In Mac OS
…1984 to run the company’s Macintosh line of personal computers (PCs). The Macintosh heralded the era of graphical user interface (GUI) systems, and it inspired Microsoft Corporation to develop its own GUI, the Windows OS.
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personal computer
- In personal computer: GUI
…became the basis of Apple’s Macintosh personal computer, which was introduced in 1984 and proved extremely successful. The Macintosh was particularly useful for desktop publishing because it could lay out text and graphics on the display screen as they would appear on the printed page.
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[This is the Pick of the Week for December 11th, 2006Fiction Mac Os X
]Many years ago, I wrote about playing Zork on OS X using a Unix program called jZip. While this worked, it was never the ideal experience -- the program errored out on quit, it had to be run from Terminal, and there were quite a few text adventure games it wouldn't play. But it worked. After writing the story, I didn't pay all that much attention to it, until I got back in playing a bit of Zork in my free time recently.
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When I revisited the story, I found a link in the comments to Zoom, a newer interpreter for Zork (and other Infocom and interactive fiction games). After a brief trial, it's obvious this is a much better solution. It plays Zork. It plays all the other Infocom games, even those that rely on some graphics. And it plays tons of other interactive fiction games. If you like interactive fiction, check out Zoom. And for a collection of games to play with it, visit the Interactive Fiction archive (the original MIT Zork is listed there under zdungeon