Two years of indifference + and this is what we deserve

King of Posters
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I use a Unicomp black 101 key thing when my wife doesn’t have to hear it…

Yeah, it’s even fun getting material off of DOS-formatted floppies these days. Classic Mac must be another level of bother. Which, well, you outline.

A friend built a 486 tower with an ethernet card, which I’ve been using to rescue stuff. Some people have mailed me floppies to salvage, which I’ve zipped up and gmailed back to them. The games Jet Driver and Mystery Mansion are out there now as a result.

Those disks had the last surviving copies, so far as the author knows…

It’s crazy. Even since I started scouring the Web and comtacting people about these games, things have gone missing. Several sites off of which I scraped games went down within a matter of months. None are on archive.org. Can’t help wondering how much I’ve missed. A couple of authors seem to have died, including one I remember talking to a while back…

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my wife insists on clicking her macbook air touchpad rather than tapping it and GOOD LORD THOSE THINGS ARE NOT MEANT TO SUSTAIN THAT LEGACY INTERACTION OVER THE LONG TERM, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT’S BREAKING ALL THE TIME

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My gf does the same! learn to touch tap! god!

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I hate touch tapping.

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Same here, i hate it so much. But I had way too much trouble in general trying to figure out the touch pad. Apparently those are amazingly counterintuitive to people who’ve been on windows since the 90s :frowning:

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one finger tap

two finger right click

two finger scroll

three finger middle click

three finger drag

that’s really the extent of what I use, it’s much more elegant than the alternative

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I do all of those motions, but with clicking for the, uh, clicks. Taps don’t feel right and you know it.

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Apple knows it too, hence the force feedback in the newer models.

The “butterfly” keyboard switches are god awful, though.

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I think it feels Just Right. I really hate force feedback

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My main beef is that my shaky hands result in a lot of accidental clicks if I use tap. Like, I really didn’t want to highlight that entire web page

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obligatory: http://kotaku.com/5878449/why-the-apple-trackpad-might-be-the-best-video-game-controller-ever-made

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I can’t click that because the URL alone is on the verge of sending me into an uncontrollable impotent tantrum. That and, y’know, kotaku.

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(it’s a tim-piece, in case you needed more tantrum-fodder)

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Good thing there’s other comics.

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Oh, sorry if what I said wasn’t clear: I don’t think that way about comics, but it is a common perception of the medium even in the year 2016

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yea, still brings a tear to the eye.