Flim Restoration

More or less reminded in recent days of the “1-bit video encoder for the classic Macintosh” MacFlim, I took a fresh look at its source code page for all that I was supposing the program had settled into a steady state. Seeing comments about “compiling on Apple Silicon,” though, had me wondering about how all of a sudden I hadn’t been able to compile it on my own system and had resorted to experiments in (virtualized) Linux. A bit more examination turned up a new explanation the program required a version of ffmpeg my Macintosh package manager didn’t install. As much to have something to post about as anything, I got around to following the steps to install that older version and was able to make a new video file. I have to admit to some satisfaction at both “cutting out a few steps to accomplish something small yet amusing” and “strengthening one strange link between ‘the Macintosh of then’ and ‘the Macintosh of now.’” There’s also, though, the slight consciousness I hadn’t started up my Linux virtualizations in recent days for whatever reason.