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Darkstar Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Darkstar
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Smalltalk
Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file (by rochus-keller)
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InfluxDB
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The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird
People can try the emulator.¹
Key to understanding is that GUI operations were two-handed, descending directly from NLS (people have all seen the ‘mother of all demos’², right?). Right hand on the mouse, left hand on the left function key cluster³ — one of the Star papers is explicit that the left cluster was a direct substitution for the NLS/Alto chord set.
A very noticeable difference from the familiar Lisa lineage is Move and Copy vs Cut and Paste — there was no clipboard. (Here I think Star got it right and Tesler got it wrong: the condition of the clipboard containing invisible fragile state is a mode, and a worse one than move-in-progress.)
¹ https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/Darkstar
² https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/
³ https://digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/keyboard/
- Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981)
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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
There is an emulator now, https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/Darkstar
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livingcomputermuseum/Darkstar is an open source project licensed under BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Darkstar is C#.
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