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MaClone 1.1.1

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@ray77 ray77 released this 19 Jul 21:10

Packaging only — the app itself is unchanged from 1.1.0.

The DMG has its own window now

Opening the disk image no longer shows a bare file list. It opens at a fixed
512×512 window with the MaClone artwork behind it, the app on the left and the
Applications shortcut on the right — drag one onto the other and you are done.

The background is a HiDPI TIFF, so it stays sharp on Retina displays.

Under the hood

Getting there was not the usual route. On macOS 26 the Finder refuses this
specific property: background picture returns error -10000 — not only when
setting it, but on a plain read as well. TIFF and PNG, hidden and visible
folders, POSIX / alias / file notation all failed identically, while window
bounds, icon size and icon positions applied fine in the same script.

So the appearance is written straight into the .DS_Store instead, by
dmg_style.py. Its two dependencies are build-time only and are not shipped
inside the app — the "nothing is fetched at runtime" guarantee is untouched, and
the build still verifies it.

Icons are 96 px rather than the usual 128: measured against a screenshot of the
mounted window, 128 px cut into the MaClone lettering and crowded the floppy
graphic in the corner.

Everything else

Unchanged from 1.1.0 — ADF / ADZ / SCP / SCPZ / IPF / IPFZ, reading, writing,
verifying, IPF creation via the bundled disk-analyse. See the
1.1.0 notes.

Still unsigned: right-click MaClone.app → Open → Open on first launch.
Still unproven: whether a written disk boots on a real Amiga.

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