WarGames (1983)

It's a Breakout clone. I mean that's what they're generally called in case you did not already know this.

it was called brick on the ipod.

woz and jobs did work on breakout at atari

A piece of lore I never knew.

Digging into it just now, an important distinction I initially missed is that they worked on the original arcade cabinet (all game logic implemented directly in hardware), which predated the 2600 and its software version by several years (by which time they had already founded Apple).

lol. Woz did work on Breakout for Atari (Atari didn't know this). Jobs got most of the money (Woz didn't know this).

It's literally one of the "big prick" items of Job's history, along with disowning his own child.

I saw an interview where someone asked woz about getting screwed out of a lot of the Atari money It was apparently new information to Woz, and he simply deflated a little, and muttered "not again, Steve..."

It was heartbreaking.

I think you are dramatizing it a bit. Woz says he found out about it from Walter Isaacson's book.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MpuPbQ8TY-I

That’s not what he said in the video. He said he found out 12 years later in a book. So sometime in the mid-1980s. That book is "Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari" by Scott Cohen. The quote is "Jobs earned himself a five-thousand-dollar bonus." on page 55.

Source: https://archive.org/details/zaprisefall00cohe

So what? The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s than all the iProducts together.

An Apple that made little more than the AppleII and ran it's course would have been a perfectly fine thing.

We would all be far richer for having 20 different companies in place of the Apple we got.

"The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s"

I started coding in 1981 on an VC20, learned a lot from it, but wonder how did the world benefit more from vic20s?

As a happy smartphone user, I think the world did benefit a lot e.g. from the Newton (loved mine, dropped a Palm for it, sad it died, but it was too heavy).

The world got more benefit because it was kids like us who learned on these Commodore machines who rose in ranks in the tech world in the 1990s and laid the groundwork for products like the Palm Pilot, the iPod, and the iPhone.

Probably would have just been Microsoft

With Woz at the helm you probably would have ended up with a completely open hardware computer company.

What would have Jobs been?

With Woz at the helm he would have worked on the Apple II architecture until the company went down, same fate as Commodore which didn't drop the Amiga and Atari which didn't drop the ST.

Without Jobs there never would have been an Apple Computer Inc. Woz would have been a kickass HP engineer and its very likely not many would know his name.

It's the Zoolander feature.

Its got the blue steel paint job

Have you tried the free models on OpenCode Zen?

All they were missing was the shark.

I believe he also made his own career disappear.

You don't understand how low resolution my screen is. That's seventeen rotations of the mouse wheel.

It did make me laugh. I read the whole article envisaging some sort of mini holodeck only to get to the final reveal image at the end.

You know I have literally never noticed that, but you're right. The carriage slides over to the right, leaving the levels to hit the left side of the paper.

I've kinda got used to Fn-Left and Fn-Right for home and end now. It has taken a very long time though.

Mac equivalents to Windows Home and End are Cmd-ArrowUp and Cmd-ArrowDown. Fn-Left and Fn-Right are Mac-flavored Home/End, which don't move the text cursor, but scroll the text container, keeping cursor in its original place (although there's no distinction when viewing documents, e.g. in a web browser).

Crazy, I hadn't appreciated that.

So:

  Fn-Left = scroll to top
  Fn-Right = scroll to bottom
  Fn-Up = scroll page up
  Fn-Down = scroll page down

  ⌘-Up = cursor to top
  ⌘-Down = cursor to bottom
  ⌘-Left = cursor to start of line
  ⌘-Right = cursor to end of line

And also option-left/right moves the cursor by word, and option-up/down moves (I think I almost never use it) by paragraph.

You can check Home is binded to scrollToBeginningOfDocument: and End is bonded to scrollToEndOfDocument: in /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict.

You can overwrite it by creating ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict.