But the medium used to create the piece is as important as the artwork itself, and using these decades-old art tools adds a certain level of authenticity to Sephton’s work. Sephton even cooked up a custom iOS software keyboard that’s accessible in the retro art apps providing shortcuts to some of their most useful features, without requiring a physical keyboard to be dragged along.Īs surprisingly functional as it all seems (Sephton even finds System 7 runs more reliably on the iPad Pro) at the same time it also sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through when there are countless painting and sketching apps available for iOS that could be used to create lo-fi 1-bit works.
The other big advantage to using an iPad to run the classic Macintosh OS and retro art apps is that the Apple Pencil works just fine on all of them, offering a more natural drawing and painting experience with the stylus directly on-screen. That allowed Sephton to add a small collection of custom resolutions to the BasiliskII source code, accessible through keyboard shortcuts, allowing them to quickly change the resolution of System 7 which makes it easier to actually tap many of the UI buttons when they’re larger on the screen. I typed a few characters into a text box and hit Delete in the middle. I changed the prefs file to use the key codes file, and set the (forward) Delete key to Power (127).
I conducted a test using the 2015 build of Basilisk II. Another unique feature of using an iPad as a classic OS emulator is that its screen boasts a resolution of 2732×2048 pixels, while the original Macintosh mustered just 512×342 pixels. As far as I know, the problem here is an old one, in the key code reader.
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Sephton uses BasiliskII to run Apple’s System 7 OS (also called Mac OS 7) on a 12.9″ iPad Pro, as well as apps like artWORKS and UltraPaint, but since it all runs on top of iOS a quick swipe brings them back to the familiar modern home screen and all the productivity apps they otherwise rely on.
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