oTunes has been rebranded to Loquat

The oTunes Mockup Tracklist Table Widget has been re-branded; to the Loquat Music Tracklist Table Widget. In addition to a new name, it has a new scheme!

Its former "oTunes" self sought to create song playlists for web pages decorated to look like iTunes 7. It has been re-skinned, to resemble the version of Apple Music that shipped with macOS 12 Monterey.

This update was made possible via screenshots of Apple Music running in Monterey, which has finally been made possible courtesy of Dozerfleet Labs acquiring a working copy of VirtualBox. Running this effectively required an upgrade to 16 MB of RAM, which is also intended to be used to speed along the final comics of Dozerfleet Comics in production, as well as produce Linux content and re-make the Shrimp on a Treadmill Calculator for numerous operating systems.

If you'd like to perform similar experiments, and are running Windows 10 or 11 as your host OS, you can start by downloading VirtualBox from here. Mac users should be able to handle this operation effortlessly, so long as they can take screenshots in Monterey and work on them inside of either Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp, or Krita. Linux users, similarly to Windows users, will want to have VirtualBox installed to run Monterey as a guest OS. Native Mac users can use VirtualBox, if they wish, to run guest OS versions of almost any version of Windows, as well as most Linux distros.

Dozerfleet Labs can finally run Monterey

It's been a long time coming; but macOS Monterey now runs on VirtualBox. This isn't without some caveats. For starters, the hard drive for it is small. It can be used now to upgrade The Sims 3, giving that game a new lease on life at Dozerfleet. It can also be used for testing Mac-side apps. However, it can't develop them directly. XCode + The Sims 3 requires too much space.

New SoaT development underway

A Windows version of the Shrimp on a Treadmill Calculator is under development. If it goes well, its compilation will be used as a launchpad for creating an Android version. Pending a new RAM module, a Mac version / iOS version may also be pending.

Dozerfleet folder icons for Windows and Mac now available

Dozerfleet Custom Project Icon Packs for Windows and Mac have now been added. If you're a fan, and wish you could decorate your folders for downloaded Dozerfleet content to the same standards used by Dozerfleet itself, the folder icons are now free for you to download and install yourself. Download page also references the software used to make these icons, in case you'd like to make your own.

A slight upgrade may be possible

Theoretically, Dell Inspiron 3650 machines can support up to 16 GB of RAM; but only up to 16 GB. And it has to be one very specific type of RAM module. One has been ordered. If shipped, and it works, this extra stick will, in theory:

• Make a virtual machine installation of Monterey possible.
• Allow Dozerfleet Main enough RAM to run The Sims 4 at more reasonable speeds.
• Allow Dozerfleet Main to run The Sims 4, Firefox, and Photoshop Elements all at once, competently, along with Affinity Publisher.

Lack of access to sufficient RAM has always been one of the most limiting factors to Dozerfleet Labs operations. Hopefully, this new purchase will remedy some of that.