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by duskwuff 454 days ago
> I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering.

I'm not sure what that would even mean. Most of the UI was drawn from bitmaps - there isn't any higher resolution internal representation of e.g. a window border or a radio button.
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simondotau 454 days ago
>I'm not sure what that would even mean.

What it would mean is something like hq2x, 2xSaI or similar. These algorithms are popularly for emulation of 8 and 16 bit era games consoles. The example image on this Wikipedia page is illustrative of what's possible with a deterministic algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx_(algorithm)

Imagine what could be possible with a well trained neural network, with knowledge of every icon, every element, and every font glyph at every bitmap size.

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rcarmo 454 days ago
You can set up a Platinum theme on XFCE and have a pretty good analog (that's what I do).
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sintax 454 days ago
Sounds like an opportunity to shove AI into some more products! :P
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