A somewhat unusual "Macintosh" for this year's MARCHintosh offering...

Here is my Atari 520ST running Spectre, a Macintosh emulator (or translator, perhaps more accurately) which features actual Macintosh Plus ROMs (user must provide) and in 1989 (along with Magic Sac which preceded it in 1986) was "the only legal Macintosh clone." Gadgets by Small, who made the device, called it 20% faster than a Mac Plus, with a 30% larger screen size (640x400 on the ST monochrome display vs. 512x342 on the early Macs). 

The Atari 520STm shown here features an 8MHz MC68000, has been expanded to 4MB RAM (up from 512K), features an HxC2001 floppy emulator, an ACSI2STM hard disk emulator, and dual Atari RGB and monochrome monitors, switchable with a Monitor Master switchbox. The 12-inch SM124 monitor showing Pinball Construction Set for Mac is nearly identical to the early Mac monochrome displays in terms of clarity, the distinctive bluish P4-class phosphor, and its overall "presence." It is a very nice display running at a rock-solid 71Hz.

(A similar series of devices, beginning with the A-Max, was released by ReadySoft for the Commodore Amiga in 1989, though I found the ST options more appealing, in large part due to the superb high-res, non-interlaced monochrome display the ST supported.)

#MARCHintosh

#Macintosh #Mac #Apple #vintageApple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputers #computing #computers #CRT #emulation #Finder #Spectre #MagicSac #Atari #AtariST #Atari520ST #photo #photos #nostalgia #vintage #BillBudge #tech #ElectronicArts #ByteCellar

while researching the history of amanda goodenough's Inigo Gets Out, i stumbled upon this 1990 beeb documentary on Hypertext and multimedia, hosted by Douglas Adams himself. there's something wonderfully aspirational about it: it imagines how curiosity can be deepened through hyperlinked media. (if you've used early 90s edutainment or multimedia encyclopedias, it is unbelievably accurate in its prediction/depiction)

and best of all: there is an interview with amanda herself at 36:15! afaik, it might be the only recorded interview with amanda and inigo that survives today.

https://archive.org/details/HyperlandBBSDouglasAdamsAndTomBaker1990

#multimedia #documentary #macintosh #hypercard #vintageApple #uk #bbc

arthur editing video on his parents' beige Power Mac G3 and internal plextor cd writer

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I want a "HyperCard 2.3 plus Color drawing tools" for my kid to play with.

Basically just draw colorful cards and link between them to make an kid adventure game.

From what I've seen, SuperCard and HyperStudio both pivoted to "more advanced HyperCard for people who outgrew it" to handle things like advanced multimedia and resizable windows and might have a learning curve

Modern things are fine too as long as they're not exploitative

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1986 HIG went wild

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Look, I made another loop for #loops! #powermac #powermacg4 #powerpc #vintagemac #retromac #retrocomputer #retrocomputing #retropc #vintageapple #retroapple #oldcomputer #oldmac #mac #apple #tiktok

https://loops.video/v/eHbgZYcSgi

For anyone debugging memory issues in your Classic Mac OS program, I can recommend Metrowerks ZoneRanger, which shows a live view of memory allocations

In this demo, you can see how my old version allocates all those tiny blocks of memory for chat lines but then just leaks them, but the fixed version frees it

Legend: Red blocks are non-relocatable, yellow are relocatable (so they move around when the memory manager wants to), and green is free

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Someone paid £52 ($70/60 eur) for a broken, 40 year old membrane keyboard

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Woz Chardonnay

"This Chardonnay is a special tribute to personal computer pioneer and our friend, Steve Wozniak."

https://couchfamilywines.com/products/2019-woz-chardonnay

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