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@gingerbeardman I weep for how bad iPad UI is, how much arbitrary stuff you just have to rote memorise, that you have to guess under which hamburger or (…) where on the screen the command is kept, because Apple decided to abandon the most important UI invention in the history of computing - the global hierarchical menu.

Since then, their UI has been medieval goatherds, wandering the ruins of Rome…

@metaning I hear you

@paulrickards I believe so, but I don’t use it at all. Instead I do all my downloading in a slide-over Safari window, and move them onto the emulated Mac using a slide-over Files window. Best of both worlds! More at: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/05/03/interoperability-of-system-7-and-ios/ and https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/tag/basiliskii/

@franzs so you want a totally different device LOL.

many people mention eink after seeing this, but I just don’t see the attraction of eink for this use case. I do love my eink reader, but the technology isn’t fast or stable enough for use in an operating system, and even though I’m drawing in monochrome here the operating system and other apps I use are colour.

@gingerbeardman I have an older Kindle with custom firmware. If the screen was 2-3x more responsive, I'd totally use it as for a OS. Not for browsing, videos, ... but writing, programming, emails. I guess even drawing? Technical stuff? Or like what you do. Haven't these screens gotten faster?

@franzs check out reviews of the ONYX BOOX Mira Pro or Dasung Paperlike 253 eink monitors. Here’s one by a user https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7SDe5nYVo the cons are too much for me, in particular the fuzzy text definition and the lighting requirements.

Sharp Memory LCD would be fast enough at 50Hz, but still requires lighting, and they don’t make it in large enough sizes.

@gingerbeardman thanks so much for this link! This video demonstrates impressively well, why I don't like Apple GUI's (gigantic shadows, animations, eye-candy, ...); It seems if you're working on static content (coding, email), on a minimal desktop (sway?) it might work exceptionally well.

What I do not understand - why is everything so washed out? My 5+ year old Kindle produces rich blacks, and appears much more responsive too.

@gingerbeardman oh, and I also just found out about the price That's approx. 5x more than I usually pay for monitors ~
I suppose if I factor in the power savings over the next 50 years it might be worth it ...

@gingerbeardman I'm honestly not sure what this means; My first flat-screen was absolutely horrible - now I wouldn't use a CRT again; Is this a lack of interest and thus funding, or a limitation in technology?

I wouldn't watch Video's on it, but right now, as I'm typing this, 99% of my screen is static - Typing works really well on the Kindle; If it was 2-3x as fast at rendering new characters, I might not even notice the lag.

@franzs you're saying you /might/ not even notice, or that it /might/ work exceptionally well, if it gets better. But the earlier video and my personal experience of the current best eink proves otherwise. It's not good enough. Amazon have easy returns if you want to try it for yourself.

@gingerbeardman okay, but seems this is more of a niche-problem, than a physical limit. I do hope this tech goes further.

Hum, I don't like to take advantage of "free" returns that aren't free, and I don't like Amazon, and anyway, the screen is too expensive, and too washed out (from the video you linked), versus what I'm used to (like a printed book).

@CodingItWrong it’s amazing! and you can use iOS apps in slide-over mode, it’s the best of both old and new worlds

@SasquatcherGeneral already happening! work in progress by @maczydeco

@gingerbeardman @maczydeco 1000% following with interest. This would be a killer app for me!

@eduo thanks for the report!

@eduo fixed this. I improved a plugin that I use to automatically emphasise specified keywords. Now it no longer does that in the middle of URLs!

@gingerbeardman I know this is a silly question and I am sure I knew what was the deal, but for the life of me I'm stumped this time.

When Basilisk on iPad looks for a ROM file, what directory is it looking in? It says "Documernts" but it's not the Basilisk dir in the iPad. It shows nothing listed in it.

I shouldn't have deleted my older version

@eduo Files app > On My iPad > BasiliskII is where I have my ROM, DSK, custom keyboard, etc

@gingerbeardman In a folder? with a special naming? I don't get anything listed

Worst thing is I had it working, but deleted the previous set-up before recompiling and now I see I didn't write down what I did.

@gingerbeardman I think I've got it. It seems it doesn't read the directory until I press "Play". I was expecting the files to be listed just after placing them.

@gingerbeardman I finally figured it out. It was the stupidest of problems.

Extensions were uppercase. I switched them to lowercase and they worked.

40 years working on macs, I never remember to care about case in filenames :D