Panic has also changed a lot over the same time period. We still develop some of the best Mac shareware around, but we're also working on exciting things like Playdate, our handheld game system. This is only possible because, as a company, we're always facing forward, looking for the next challenge. Panic makes top-quality apps for developers, games for people who like fun, and, soon, a handheld gaming system. An adventure video game set in the Wyoming wilderness for Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Untitled Goose Game. Untitled Goose Game. Headquartered in Manhattan, New York, Take-Two Interactive is an American video game holding company founded in September 1993 by Ryan Brant. It publishes games through 2K Games (Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, Evolve, Mafia, Sid Meier's Civilization, The Darkness, XCOM), 2K Play (Carnival Games), 2K Sports (NBA 2K, WWE 2K), Ghost Story Games, Private Division (Kerbal Space Program. Here's a quick video of me forcing a Kernel Panic on my MacBook 2008 Aluminum Unibody running Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan. If you don't understand what a Ker.
Most crashes on a Mac affect just one application. Xshooter (mac version) mac os. But you may encounter a type of system-wide crash that brings down your entire Mac: a kernel panic. When this occurs, there's no warning and no way to save your work or do anything else without restarting. And, because kernel panics can have many different causes, diagnosing the problem and preventing its recurrence are difficult.
When a kernel panic occurs in Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.7, the computer displays a multilingual message informing the user that they need to reboot the system. Prior to 10.2, a more traditional Unix-style panic message was displayed; in 10.8 and later, the computer automatically reboots and displays a.
How do you know if it's a kernel panic?
If you're running OS X 10.7 Lion or earlier, kernel panics usually result in your screen dimming from top to bottom, and a message appearing in several languages telling you that you must restart your Mac (by holding down the power button for several seconds to turn it off, and then pressing it again to turn it back on).
Starting in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X automatically restarts when you have a kernel panic, and then displays a similar-looking message for 60 seconds (or until you press a key) telling you that your Mac was restarted because of a problem. (If the kernel panic repeats every time your Mac restarts, OS X will give up after five tries and shut your Mac down.)
As Apple notes on its support page about kernel panics, something as random and fleeting as malformed network packets can potentially cause a kernel panic. So, if you experience this problem just once, or only rarely, just restart, get back to work, and forget about it.
But if you see a kernel panic frequently (Apple apparently defines 'frequently' as 'more than once every few weeks'), you should take additional troubleshooting steps. I suggest a slightly different sequence of steps than what Apple outlines.
First things first
If you're running OS X 10.8 or later, immediately after your Mac restarts on its own you'll see a dialog box asking whether you want to reopen the apps that were open before the crash. Click Open; if the kernel panic recurs, one of the running apps is a likely culprit, so click Cancel the next time around. Either way, another dialog box will ask if you want to see more information and report the problem to Apple. You probably do, so click Report. You may be unable to make heads or tails of the technical details, but glance over them and then click OK to send the report to Apple.
If you're seeing repeated kernel panics, try the following things until they go away.
Do a safe boot: Restart your Mac and hold down the Shift key until you see the gray Apple logo. Doing so temporarily disables some software that could cause problems and runs some cleanup processes. If the kernel panic doesn't recur, restart again normally.
Update your software: Outdated software is frequently implicated in kernel panics. This may include OS X itself and, very rarely, regular applications. More often it involves low-level software like kernel extensions and drivers. If you've installed software that goes with peripherals (network adapters, audio interfaces, graphics cards, input devices, etc.) or antivirus, file-system, or screen-capture tools, those should be the first you check for newer versions. Choose Software Update from the Apple menu to update OS X, Apple apps, and items purchased from the Mac App Store; for other apps, use a built-in updater or check the developer's website.
Update your firmware: Software Update may also tell you about available updates for your Mac. If so, be sure to install them. You can also check for any firmware updates applicable to your Mac model at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1237.
Check your disk: Make sure your startup disk has at least 10GB of free space; if it doesn't, delete some files to make room. Next, to find and fix any disk errors, start from another volume, run Disk Utility, select your startup disk, and click Repair Disk. (The easiest way to do this, if you're running OS X 10.7 or later, is to restart and then immediately press and hold Command-R to enter OS X Recovery. If that doesn't work, or if you have an older system, you can start up from a bootable duplicate of your hard disk or OS X install media.)
Check peripherals: If kernel panics continue, shut down your Mac and disconnect everything except the bare minimum (keyboard, pointing device, and display if those aren't built in)—as well as any hardware you've added inside your Mac, such as a graphics card. Turn your Mac back on. If the problem doesn't reappear, repeat the process, reattaching one device at a time. If you see a kernel panic right after connecting a piece of hardware, that may be your culprit. Hidden angel: bitsy adaptation mac os.
Check your RAM: Defective RAM can cause kernel panics, and sometimes these defects manifest themselves only after time. If you've added any after-market RAM, try turning off your Mac, removing the extra RAM, and restarting. If that makes the kernel panics disappear, contact the company that sold you the RAM to see about a warranty replacement.
Last-ditch efforts
After that, troubleshooting steps get more time-consuming—enough so that if I got to this point without a solution, I'd probably think about making an appointment at the nearest Genius Bar. But if you have a spare hard drive, you can install a fresh copy of OS X on it, boot from that drive, and run Software Update to make sure everything is current. If the kernel panic doesn't occur when running from that drive, you can be pretty sure it's a software issue—some obscure gremlin on your startup disk. Unfortunately, the easiest way to solve it is to start up from another volume (or use OS X Recovery) and reinstall OS X over your existing system, and if that doesn't work, erase the disk and reinstall everything from scratch.
Facing Forward
By Michael
With 2020 now squarely behind us, it's safe to say that the year didn't go as anyone planned, but at Panic we somehow managed to release Nova as wildfires were approaching our homes, announce Nour: Play With Your Food for PS5, and update our apps for Big Sur, Apple M1, and iOS 14.
We have even more exciting projects in the works for this year, but to start, we'd like to present you with one very small gift.
Once upon a time, we made one of the earliest MP3 players for the Mac, Audion. We've come to appreciate that Audion captured a special moment in time, and we've been trying to preserve its history. Back in March, we revealed that we were working on converting Audion faces to a more modern format so they could be preserved.
Since then, we've succeeded in converting 867 faces, and are currently working on a further 15 faces, representing every Audion face we know of.
Today, we'd like to give you the chance to experience these faces yourself on any Mac running 10.12 or later. We're releasing a stripped-down version of Audion for modern macOS to view these faces.
Now, this isn't a full-fledged return of Audion. It can play music files and streams, but it doesn't have playlists, and we're not offering support for it. Its primary purpose is to view faces in the converted format. In addition, we're releasing the source code to document how these faces work and an archive of converted faces.
Some Faces
Inside the face archive, you'll find hundreds of great Audion faces. Some are more traditional music player interfaces; many mimicked the then-brand-new OS X, replete with pinstripes and brushed metal; and others were boldly glossy and skeuomorphic, a trend which, for a short time, seemed like it might be the future of GUI design. The TokyoBay face by Paul Johnson exemplifies this last aesthetic. Like many faces, it displayed track info on a glossy LCD with scanlines.
Of course, not all faces fell into these categories. The Face PP by Rudluph looks like it would fit right in at the Y2K Aesthetic Institute:
As with any themeable software, Audion got its fair share of holiday-themed faces. Bescherung, by Andy Pratioto, cleverly replaced the time display with animating Christmas lights, causing the lights to animate as the track plays:
In fact, many Audion faces really came alive when animating. Audion supported streaming music from the Internet, but it could take a long time to connect and buffer audio streams, during which time the UI would be static. To assure users that Audion had not frozen, it would play animations while connecting and streaming. Lots of face artists created delightful streaming animations, but I was surprised to find that Slap Happy by Chris Fayette contained a ten-second clip from Charlie Chaplin's The Cure:
But it didn't take animation to make a great skin. StickyAudion by Dr. Joseph A. Gardner disguised itself as a classic Mac OS sticky note, with the controls hidden in the text of the note:
This kind of interface is fun, but if you're seeing it for the first time, it can take a minute to figure how how it works. Interface design over the last couple decades has focused on making GUIs as intuitive and easy to use as possible, and that's one major reason why themeable software fell out of style. Ninja tycoon mac os. Some Audion faces took this to an extreme, hiding buttons in the design so you would have to click around the face to find where they were. But themeable software also allowed for unconventional GUI designs that remained usable while allowing artists to explore new directions for UI design. Contragravity by Margaret Trauth has always stood out to me as a fun face that is easy to use:
It's also one of the very few faces that still has a working URL in its info field. Most of the faces contain links to expired domains or abandoned email addresses. Given that they were created around twenty years ago, this shouldn't be surprising. Face artists put a lot of time and effort into their faces, and while it may be sad to think that all their work has largely vanished from the Internet, people change, discovering new interests and reinventing their Internet identities in the process.
Panic has also changed a lot over the same time period. We still develop some of the best Mac shareware around, but we're also working on exciting things like Playdate, our handheld game system. This is only possible because, as a company, we're always facing forward, looking for the next challenge. But Audion remains an important part of our past, and that's why we're so excited to bring these faces to life again.
Extras
But that's not the end of the Audion preservation story!
After that, troubleshooting steps get more time-consuming—enough so that if I got to this point without a solution, I'd probably think about making an appointment at the nearest Genius Bar. But if you have a spare hard drive, you can install a fresh copy of OS X on it, boot from that drive, and run Software Update to make sure everything is current. If the kernel panic doesn't occur when running from that drive, you can be pretty sure it's a software issue—some obscure gremlin on your startup disk. Unfortunately, the easiest way to solve it is to start up from another volume (or use OS X Recovery) and reinstall OS X over your existing system, and if that doesn't work, erase the disk and reinstall everything from scratch.
Facing Forward
By Michael
With 2020 now squarely behind us, it's safe to say that the year didn't go as anyone planned, but at Panic we somehow managed to release Nova as wildfires were approaching our homes, announce Nour: Play With Your Food for PS5, and update our apps for Big Sur, Apple M1, and iOS 14.
We have even more exciting projects in the works for this year, but to start, we'd like to present you with one very small gift.
Once upon a time, we made one of the earliest MP3 players for the Mac, Audion. We've come to appreciate that Audion captured a special moment in time, and we've been trying to preserve its history. Back in March, we revealed that we were working on converting Audion faces to a more modern format so they could be preserved.
Since then, we've succeeded in converting 867 faces, and are currently working on a further 15 faces, representing every Audion face we know of.
Today, we'd like to give you the chance to experience these faces yourself on any Mac running 10.12 or later. We're releasing a stripped-down version of Audion for modern macOS to view these faces.
Now, this isn't a full-fledged return of Audion. It can play music files and streams, but it doesn't have playlists, and we're not offering support for it. Its primary purpose is to view faces in the converted format. In addition, we're releasing the source code to document how these faces work and an archive of converted faces.
Some Faces
Inside the face archive, you'll find hundreds of great Audion faces. Some are more traditional music player interfaces; many mimicked the then-brand-new OS X, replete with pinstripes and brushed metal; and others were boldly glossy and skeuomorphic, a trend which, for a short time, seemed like it might be the future of GUI design. The TokyoBay face by Paul Johnson exemplifies this last aesthetic. Like many faces, it displayed track info on a glossy LCD with scanlines.
Of course, not all faces fell into these categories. The Face PP by Rudluph looks like it would fit right in at the Y2K Aesthetic Institute:
As with any themeable software, Audion got its fair share of holiday-themed faces. Bescherung, by Andy Pratioto, cleverly replaced the time display with animating Christmas lights, causing the lights to animate as the track plays:
In fact, many Audion faces really came alive when animating. Audion supported streaming music from the Internet, but it could take a long time to connect and buffer audio streams, during which time the UI would be static. To assure users that Audion had not frozen, it would play animations while connecting and streaming. Lots of face artists created delightful streaming animations, but I was surprised to find that Slap Happy by Chris Fayette contained a ten-second clip from Charlie Chaplin's The Cure:
But it didn't take animation to make a great skin. StickyAudion by Dr. Joseph A. Gardner disguised itself as a classic Mac OS sticky note, with the controls hidden in the text of the note:
This kind of interface is fun, but if you're seeing it for the first time, it can take a minute to figure how how it works. Interface design over the last couple decades has focused on making GUIs as intuitive and easy to use as possible, and that's one major reason why themeable software fell out of style. Ninja tycoon mac os. Some Audion faces took this to an extreme, hiding buttons in the design so you would have to click around the face to find where they were. But themeable software also allowed for unconventional GUI designs that remained usable while allowing artists to explore new directions for UI design. Contragravity by Margaret Trauth has always stood out to me as a fun face that is easy to use:
It's also one of the very few faces that still has a working URL in its info field. Most of the faces contain links to expired domains or abandoned email addresses. Given that they were created around twenty years ago, this shouldn't be surprising. Face artists put a lot of time and effort into their faces, and while it may be sad to think that all their work has largely vanished from the Internet, people change, discovering new interests and reinventing their Internet identities in the process.
Panic has also changed a lot over the same time period. We still develop some of the best Mac shareware around, but we're also working on exciting things like Playdate, our handheld game system. This is only possible because, as a company, we're always facing forward, looking for the next challenge. But Audion remains an important part of our past, and that's why we're so excited to bring these faces to life again.
Extras
But that's not the end of the Audion preservation story!
After our March blog post, we got in touch with a few face authors who had some fun tidbits to share.
In 2001, Joel Day developed a third-party Mac app to create and edit Audion faces named FaceEdit. This app only runs on Classic Mac OS, but Joel has generously made a registered copy available for free — and notes that anyone who wants to pay for a registration code can send him a few dollars on GitHub sponsors. Make some faces!
In addition, an amazing long-lost piece of history: Paul Johnson, Author of the TokyoBay face featured earlier, did some work for Panic conceptualizing the default face for the cancelled Audion 4 and sent me this never-seen-before mock-up of it:
Thanks
Well, we hope you enjoyed this final look at Audion and its many faces on our blog. When we finish converting the remaining faces, we'll post an update on our Twitter.
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And here's to 2021, which we can only hope will be bright and meaningful for all of you. Forward!
