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macOS Sequoia Includes Wallpaper With Classic Mac Graphics

wilderkun said:
Where are the classic ones in iPhone? I’m running the beta and don’t have them :(
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Near the bottom of the list of wallpapers you should see “Collections,” in there is the original green wallpaper with two clown fish. The iPad has the original mountains on the lake wallpaper in the same place. They’ve both been updated as well with subtle effects which is nice!


They're both there on iOS and iPad OS 17, hopefully they’ve not been removed in 18!
 
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AlexJaye said:
What is this, “remember when we didn’t produce total buggy crap!”?
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I can tell you never ran System 7.5.2. I was working on my dissertation on a brand new Powermac 7500 and unreliable doesn't begin to describe 7.5.2. System 8 had problems too, though 8.1 was very solid. For that matter, the first release of MacOS 9 had problems.

The problem isn't the bug count on release, it's that they rush off to the next "great thing" without fixing them. There were 8 revisions to 10.6 over two years, and 11 to 10.4 over 2 and a half years. A two year release cycle would make for a better product, but are you willing to wait for the latest trendy hotness? Fast Fashion applies to operating systems too.
 
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Some serious nostalgia in that wallpaper. That took me back to my college dorm room and using my roommate's Performa. I had a 486SX25 w/ 3G RAM (four 768k sticks!) but I didn't trust it on the important stuff AND my box didn't have a sound card. I couldn't afford the $80 for even the creative 8-bit card but I got a frickin' 1X CD-ROM. :mad:
 
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stiligFox said:
Near the bottom of the list of wallpapers you should see “Collections,” in there is the original green wallpaper with two clown fish. The iPad has the original mountains on the lake wallpaper in the same place. They’ve both been updated as well with subtle effects which is nice!


They're both there on iOS and iPad OS 17, hopefully they’ve not been removed in 18!
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Ok. I saw that. Thought it was more. Been downloading and ai upscaling some of the original wallpapers on my own. Was hoping Apple did a big collection of a bunch :(
 
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This nostalgia wallpaper is indeed gorgeous.

What really amazes me is that Apple introduces great dynamic landscape wallpapers.... and scraps them after 2-3 releases only to bring boring colors back with Monterey.
Then they hit it absolutely out of the park with the Sonoma wallpaper, only to leave me to wonder "doesn't Sequoia Park have nice landscapes??" in the next release. (Yes,yes, redwood, but that was not as nice as Sonoma and already last year)
 
BGPL said:
You're right, from a philosophical standpoint, he was forward looking and didn't care to spend time in the past.
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Incorrect really. There were and still many things in macOS that are a tribute to its past, out of respect for its roots. Apple could change it but they like the retro tributes.

The internal drive is still called Macintosh HD, the same as it was before Mac OS X was released and yet we don't even have hard drives (HD) anymore.

The black borders around all the displays are a tribute to the all in one Macintosh which had a black border around the UI. For a while our PowerBooks and iBooks didn't have this but then they made an appearance in the Intel era.

There are not just reference to Classic Macs but also NeXT. The frameworks for building apps still reference NeXTSTEP naming. The Chess app and others started on NeXTSTEP.

Etc etc.
 
I really like how those old icons were descriptive and easy to understand (in context) compared to the abstract line art of modern icons
 
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I never use wallpapers for my desktop. I like it to be black. That means it does not produce more light than necessary. Light is only needed for things that are actually important. Not for the background. I like that external screens are black if I close all windows on them.
 
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I miss the times they had nice photos, e.g. of the location the OS released was named after.

And they could provide a higher resolution version of the galaxy wallpaper back from the old times. I liked that so much, that it attracted me to Apple computers in the first place. I still have it on my current Mac, but it does not look good on the 5k display.
 
emulator said:
Exactly, just like everything in design, fashion, furniture. Not to mention Hollywood... :rolleyes: but hey, recycle is a keeper buzzword unlike some we can't even remember.
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Wait, I thought it was repurpose? Oh yeah, that's just recycle recycled.
 
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