Tag: Macintosh
The term “interactive movie” causes gamers of a certain vintage to immediately adopt the fetal position and rock incessantly at flashbacks of terrible voice acting, endless cut scenes and letterbox window videos strewn with artefacts and extreme levels of compression. Shortly before the CD-ROM format landed and opened the doors to this new frontier however, the interactive movie is what the…
This article, write by Matt Gallagher, tell us his work in bringing to the latest MacOS (Sierra) code he wrote back in the late 90’s for the OS 8. Despite the practical objective of the article, which is very interesting by itself, Matt enriches the article with a very interesting summary of some of the tools used to build Mac applications for…
It was announced that MacGUI website will fade out and eventually close over the next few months. “Dog Cow” explained that last year he started to downsize his collection giving away tons of Mac related materials to whoever was willing to pay for postage. Now, the website, which has already been downsized as well will eventually close down. “Dog Cow” wants…
UPDATE: Unfortunately Apple2Scans removed the downloads “The volumes of Micro on the Apple have been removed following a request from the copyright holder” Apple II Scans has made available the scans of the three volumes of Micro on the Apple, consisting more than 600 pages of Apple II programming articles that were first published in the pages of Micro Magazine. “…contributions by…
If you think that it is taking too long to get your hands on the new Mac OSX “El Capitan”, you should consider what the Apple IIgs users have been through. After exactly 22 years, 2 months, 2 days and 2 hours since System 6.0.1 was released, a new version of the Apple IIgs operating system has been released. Of…
Blake Patterson wrote in his blog “Byte Cellar” about his visit to the “Places of Invention” Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, in Washington D.C. The exhibit is not only about vintage computing, but there is an important part of it dedicated to the rise of the personal computer. Besides the article that I recommend you to read,…
Stories of Apple website has published an interesting article telling the story of Mr. Macintosh, a stylized little man with an overcoat and hat that was etched on some early Macintosh motherboards and also appeared on some rare merchandising items. The idea was eventually abandoned but Mr. Macintosh lived on, at least for a while, both in hardware and in…
