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Did Jaguar have an alternate beach ball?

Posted by: Corgi on 2022-10-14 01:20:03 The thread on nostalgia made me remember something that I swear I experienced when Jaguar was the current OS, but I've never been able to make Jaguar do on any of my hardware since. When I was messing with Netscape 6 with said friend on her lamp, I swear there was a different beach ball cursor. It still spun, but it almost looked like a palette with the colours inside. It may have been while configuring PPP in System Preferences, or testing a dial-in script? Every so often when I remember this it drives me crazy because I can't find any proof this ever existed in any image search I've done. I even tried Puma thinking maybe I misremembered the OS version, but no luck there either. Reading about Jaguar's replacing the Happy Mac with the Apple logo, I distinctly remember that feature which I attributed at the time to something in the iMac's firmware instead of an OS change. So it almost had to be Jaguar.

Posted by: slomacuser on 2022-10-14 01:49:10

Posted by: slomacuser on 2022-10-14 03:16:36 Could be Netscape had its own beachball like version 4

Posted by: Corgi on 2022-10-14 03:36:41 It looked something like this. The colours spun inside. It may have been an app; I’m going to try and install what I remember from that iMac on my ‘Book this weekend and see if I can find it…

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