I highly recommend buying a compact mac, they are absolutely charming and a nice little air gapped machine for excel, word and cool games like risk and triple yahtzee.
This looks like really interesting content, but the lack of anti-aliasing in the typeface (which is kind of the point, I guess) makes it very painful on the eyes.
From that page: “I was inspired by Stuart Brown‘s Retro MacOS Theme, and modified it for my use. Brown’s original design magnifies pixel elements 2x, for a post-modern take on the original look-and-feel. For this project, I wanted to see what the original artwork would look like on a 1:1 scale.”
That's how people used to work in the 80s, in particular the classic Macs. It was monochrome in the literal sense, a pixel could be either fully black or fully white. You could do dithering but that wouldn't happen here. An entire generation worked this way :).
That's actually interesting. Having been used to it once, I find it now to be a refreshing experience. (This may be due to this reminding of times when things used to be more focused. I observe myself approaching this content with a quite different attitude than most things today.)
Weirdly -- I seem to remember seeing a lot of ,€“ on my old Macintosh ~25 years ago. I think this could be intentional reminder of the "old days", and not a mistake.
One of my favourite programs, esp. on my NeXT Cube. My wife wrote her Master's Thesis in WriteNow v2 on a Mac SE which I somehow managed to get printed on an HP LaserJet (IV I think it was --- the nice 600dpi one) at the college.
WriteNow was ~100,000 lines of assembler code.
It had an interesting history --- it was developed under contract for Apple as a hedge against MacWrite not making it --- when it was ready, they allowed it to be sold separately, then when Steve Jobs left Apple, it wound up getting ported to NeXTstep and for a while was bundled w/ Cubes until that was given up as anti-competitive.
