TinyClock
Productivity
desktop clock widget
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How HN took it
4 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Execution: 1 for, 7 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
Objections
Does not run on current Intel macOS because it lacks an x86_64 slice
From 3 comments
Curiously it doesn't seem to run on my Intel Macbook running Big Sur - the icon is crossed out and I get > “TinyClock.app” needs to be updated. > The developer of this app needs…
donatj on HNIt only has i386, ppc, and arm64 slices. So, an Intel Mac running recent macOS won't be able to launch it as it does not have an x86_64 slice (32-bit x86 execution having been…
theg5prank on HNIt's not confused; as noted in Known Bugs: > Unlike done in previous project, netop Tiger SDKs (used to build several intermediate binaries) don’t contain 64-bit AppKit versions,…
JonathonW on HN
Not truly 5-arch; the release has only three architectures
From 2 comments
Seems like it’s literally not “5-arch” then. 32 bit PPC, 64 bit PPC, 32 bit X86, 64 bit ARM.
Pulcinella on HNIt actually doesn’t have ppc64 either. Just 3 slices.
theg5prank on HN
Fails to load on Mac OS X 10.0
From 1 comment
Doesn't work on 10.0: https://0x0.st/ofjW.png Not only does the binary not load, but the dmg itself won't extract, it just opens to a blank Disk Copy window no matter what you…
ranger_danger on HN
Requests
Port to NeXTSTEP/OpenStep or other older systems
From 1 comment
Would it be possible to create a true universal binary that also runs on NeXT/Openstep on 68k, SPARC, PA-RISC and x86 as well as Rhapsody on PPC and x86?
johndoe0815 on HN
Support for classic Mac System 6
From 1 comment
I want System 6 support for my SE/30 from 1989.
smilespray on HN
Questions
What does 5-arch mean?
From 1 comment
What does 5-arch mean? Single Google yielded nothing (which may be more of a comment on Google's quality as of late)
digb on HN
How does the Bazaar clone URL work?
From 1 comment
OT, but as someone who's never used Bazaar, how does this work? ``` bzr clone https://tycho.sytes.net/TinyClock/ ``` EDIT: To clarify, I'm curious since this is the same URL I'm…
cglong on HN
Alternatives named
XLD (X Lossless Decoder) as a universal macOS app
From 1 comment
A much more impressive universal macOS application in my mind is the X Lossless Decoder (XLD), which you can run natively on PowerPC (32), Intel (32/64) and ARM (64). Not only is…
Hamuko on HN
X11 clients such as oclock and aclock
From 2 comments
For a bit of comparison, Windows 2.03's (analog!) clock: ``` CLOCK EXE 8960 9-04-87 11:11a ``` ...will run on Windows 2.0 up to Windows 10 x86.
userbinator on HNOClock and "aclock" statically built can be run under older kernels up to today's distros. Oh, and it will run and render over the network with paleolitic Unixen thanks to X :).
anthk on HN