Some light Easter reading in the park before the Kids' Egg hunt

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

One thing I've learned is that Inside Macintosh is just the primer. It may look like all you need - it lists all the Toolbox functions and how they work, and walks you through how things ought to fit together!

But in reality to make anything beyond TeachText you need to read: every Technote, every Q&A, skim every relevant sample code, every Snippet, and also read every issue of develop.

Then you can start to approach being able to attempt to do something!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

TIL that Apple actually released the source code to SimpleText! I don't know how I missed this for so long...

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #AprilTosh #mb

ah yes, the highly desirable mac mini 4

no doubt the 4ghz powerpc m4 processor makes this vintage mac extra valuable

#vintageApple #macintosh

Happy 50th, Apple.

#Apple

#AppleComputerInc #AppleInc #fiftyyears #apple50 #Apple50thAnniversary #Macintosh #AppleII #Lisa #SteveJobs #iPod #iPhone #iPad #Mac #AppleBirthday #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #tech #technews #technology #vintageApple #photo #ByteCellar

From my #Reddit feed.

Yes, it would be awesome to use the #VintageApple icons in #XFCE.

#mac #tech #vintagecomputing

Let’s do this again and hopefully the algorithm doesn’t send it straight into /dev/null

Opening a sealed copy of Mac OS 8.0 for #MARCHintosh! With free AOL3.0!

#retrocomputing #vintageapple
https://youtu.be/zhrBh95mW08

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