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The spinning pinwheel is a type of progress indicator and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [ 1 ] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor , [ 2 ] but it is also known by other names.
It is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids, with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels. Space Duel is the first and only multiplayer vector game by Atari. When Asteroids Deluxe did not sell well, this game was taken off the shelf and released to moderate success.
First known HyperCard virus. [1] [4] Self-destructs after displaying a message encouraging people to vote for Michael Dukakis. [1] [3] 3 Tunes (or HC) 1991 [4] First reported from Holland and Belgium. [4] On systems running the German Mac OS, the virus causes infected stacks to play three German folk tunes. [3] MerryXmas 1991 [5]
A throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).
The game's design was limited by the small memory footprint of video game consoles and by the slow speed of CD-ROM drives. The game was created on Apple Macintosh computers and ran on the HyperCard software stack, though ports to other platforms subsequently required the creation of a new engine. Myst was a critical and commercial success ...
HyperCard was originally released in 1987 for $49.95 and was included free with all new Macs sold afterwards. [1] It was withdrawn from sale in March 2004, having received its final update in 1998 upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. HyperCard was not ported to Mac OS X, but can run in the Classic Environment on versions of Mac OS X that ...
LiveCode (formerly Revolution and MetaCard [3]) is a cross-platform [4] rapid application development runtime system inspired by HyperCard. It features the LiveCode Script (formerly MetaTalk) programming language which belongs to the family of xTalk scripting languages like HyperCard's HyperTalk. [5] [6] The environment was introduced in 2001. [7]
Prima Games is a publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States.Formerly, Prima was an imprint of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Penguin Random House, and produced print strategy guides, featuring in-depth walkthroughs for completing games and other information, such as character sheets and move charts. [1]