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The Digital Prometheus (6/13/98)
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Speaking of sequels, remember when we told you that Apple's famous Icon Garden had been dismantled? According to sources at Mac OS Rumors, it's not dead forever; Apple has apparently spirited the tired, battered remnants of the Garden's 8-bit carcass back into the labs, where mad scientists are hard at work infusing the icons with new life and new colors. (They have the technology...)
See, as you may have heard by now, Apple's next big operating system release (now officially known as Mac OS 8.5, and previously referred to as Allegro) includes new 16-bit icons which we hear are just gorgeous to look at. The revamping of the Icon Garden will reportedly coincide with Mac OS 8.5's release late this summer, as part of Apple's ongoing attempt to modernize its image. While this may sound a little far-fetched, keep in mind that the city of Cupertino requires that Apple display some public art in the park outside its campus, so Apple's going to have to replace those old 8-bit icons with something, regardless.
And in addition to the revamped icons, we hear that the Quicktime penguin will also make a spirited guest appearance in Icon Garden 2: 16 Bits of Fury. It's sure to be the feel-good hit of the summer.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/13/98 episode: June 13, 1998: Just because the video-out port spotted on some of the prototype iMacs is going away, that doesn't mean that Apple shouldn't consider bringing it back for the sequel. Meanwhile, back in the labs, mad geniuses graft eight more bits onto the exhumed remains of Apple's freshly-deceased Icon Garden, and FireWire promises to change the future forever...
Other scenes from that episode: 770: Any Port in a Storm (6/13/98) Concerning the iMac-- we had been intrigued to hear reports of a video-out port on the back of some of the prototype models that have been making the rounds on the users' group circuit. While being able to connect an external monitor to a machine that has a 15" screen built in may seem both excessive and bizarre, such a possibility could serve certain obscure purposes... 772: Fire in the Hole (6/13/98) If you're anything like us, you've been hearing about FireWire for years now, and you still aren't exactly sure what it is. We always knew it was a peripheral interface like SCSI but only faster, but beyond that, we just didn't much care (probably in no small part because SCSI is everywhere, and FireWire is still breaking ground)...
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