Windoid, a technical newsletter about HyperCard, produced by the Apple HyperCard Users Group (AHUG)
Published: Sunday, 13th July 2025
HyperCard, the web before the web. Or, as ArsTechnica once put it: “Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything”… Yup, HyperCard was a hell of a big deal, in the grand scheme of things. Apple didn’t really know or understand what they had in their hands, though, and it didn’t take over...
Read More...Power Macintosh 9600 Rebuild
Published: Saturday, 21st December 2024
A few months ago, as summer 2024 was coming to a close, my trusty old Macintosh Performa 5320 met its demise and suddenly refused to power on. Opening it up to investigate fixing it was a disaster, the plastic internals simply crumbled to dust. By the time I got the motherboard out, there was no...
Read More...Welcome to Eternal February – How to use post-Google Usenet in 2024 on vintage Macs
Published: Saturday, 20th April 2024
One of the joys of retrocomputing is in using your long-obsolete machines for genuinely productive work and pleasure. The World Wide Web steam-rollered its way to dominance around the turn of the millennium and the march of time has since firmly moved the modern web beyond the reach of vintage Macs. But if we look...
Read More...The Electronic Young Telegraph for Macintosh
Published: Thursday, 28th March 2024
Here’s something I acquired from eBay several years ago but only recently got around to actually looking at, the Electronic Young Telegraph. Seeing an auction for a collection of Macintosh floppies always piques my interest and I can rarely resist the temptation to put in a bid and, if I win, hope that the floppies...
Read More...My Vintage Apple Mac Battlestation – and Macintosh Games Collection
Published: Wednesday, 28th February 2024
I moved house a couple of years ago and had all my Macintosh stuff boxed away in storage for a long time. I set my PowerMac G4 MDD and Power Macintosh 5320 up last summer, though, and started to slowly get back into retrocomputing. However, what has prompted this post is the warm sense of...
Read More...Hello? Is this thing on?
Published: Wednesday, 24th January 2024
Well, it’s been a few years since my last post… And a whole hell of a lot has happened in the world since January 2020! Global pandemic aside, in February 2020 I started a new job and ended up getting distinctly sidetracked away from the world of vintage Apple Macs and retrocomputing. That’s not to...
Read More...Archived: Ubuntu 5.10 for PPC Mac
Published: Friday, 24th January 2020
Here’s a cool find that I picked up from eBay for a couple of quid, Ubuntu 5.10 for Mac! I’ve got a Mac Mini G4 (the 1.5Ghz “silent upgrade” model) so installing this OS will be a neat thing to do with it. I’ve had this Mac Mini for a while but have struggled to...
Read More...Archived: The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy HyperCard Expanded Book
Published: Wednesday, 18th December 2019
Phew! That title is quite the mouthful! It would have been longer if I’d included the author’s name (the late, great Douglas Adams, of course) and the publishing company (Voyager) but I figured I’d best truncate it. But I digress! I am absolutely delighted to present to the world the wonderful Hitchhiker’s Guide To The...
Read More...Archived and emulated: If Monks Had Macs Original 1988 Version
Published: Sunday, 15th December 2019
I’m guessing that most readers of VintageAppleMac.com will have heard of HyperCard before. If not, it was a revolutionary piece of Apple software that allowed the creation of multimedia applications using the concept of HyperText long before Tim Berners-Lee had dreamed up the World Wide Web. A lot of very creative people used it to...
Read More...Archived: Volume 1 Issue 1 of Apple Business magazine, from March 1988
Published: Thursday, 5th December 2019
It’s been a while since I last updated the site. I’ve been very busy “in real life” and have also had a few other projects vying for my attention. But that’s no excuse for neglecting my wonderful Macintosh hobby and I will start to put that right immediately. So, without further ado, allow me to...
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