Mike Piontek

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Mike Piontek
🛡️ robotspacer_at_xoxo.zone@momostr.pink
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I make apps for my company Junecloud and play adventure games on Twitch. Pronouns: He/Him Personal: https://mikepiontek.com Twitch: https://robotspacer.tv Work: https://junecloud.com
Last week, @ScummVM announced that they’ve started testing their World Builder engine, with support for hundreds of old Mac adventure games. Here’s why I’m excited about it, and why you should be too!
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ScummVM is currently testing World Builder support
ScummVM recently announced that they’ve started testing their World Builder engine, with support for hundreds of old Mac adventure games. Here’...
It's difficult to think of two computer programs that had a greater impact on me than MacPaint and HyperCard. They both helped me, a kid that just wanted to draw pictures, realize that computers were unquestionably for me too. Thanks for everything, Bill Atkinson.
WIRED
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
AllTinker recently released a patch for Gabriel Knight 1 that fixes the worst of its unfortunate audio issues:
Gabriel Knight CD (1993) Repaired Speech - All Versions \ VOGONS
 You can download the patch here: https://alltinker.itch.io/gk-speech-fix Even better, they’ve worked with sluicebox to submit a patch to ScummVM:
GitHub
SCI32: Implement GK1 CD DPCM8 speech audio repair by TheAllTinker · Pull Request #6292 · scummvm/scummvm
This PR implements a realtime repair method for the overflows which occur within DPCM8 speech audio for the CD/talky version of Gabriel Knight: Sin...
 Just a checkbox to fix it! ✨ So excited to play this again now.
In macOS 15, Apple removed the option to right-click and choose “Open” to bypass Gatekeeper and run an unsigned app. Instead, you open the app, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, and click a button to allow it.
Updates to runtime protection in macOS Sequoia - Latest News - Apple Developer
In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notar...
 This process doesn’t work in macOS 15.1. Given the notice above, this seems like an unintentional bug to me.
Hackaday
Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1
Many MacOS users are probably used by now to the annoyance that comes with unsigned applications, as they require a few extra steps to launch them....
 There’s an easy workaround! Remove the quarantine bit in Terminal: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Example.app #macOS