AMihkal: Apple Mice I Have Known and Loved (And One That I Detest)
Published: Tuesday, 5th November 2019
I’ve been a Mac user since 2007, when I went to uni to study photography and bought a MacBook because I figured that I might as well get to grips with the industry standard computer platform sooner rather than later. It was an instant revelation, I simply couldn’t comprehend how much better a user-experience Mac...
Read More...Software Of The Month Club CDs
Published: Thursday, 5th September 2019
What has been a real nice part of my VintageAppleMac.com journey is the following that I’ve acquired on Twitter. I’ve been very fortunate to meet and interact with some really cool people on there and it often feels like a real neat and well-informed little retrocomputing community. So I was not surprised to receive a...
Read More...Macintosh Public Domain Library Floppy Collection
Published: Wednesday, 4th September 2019
Here’s a curious collection I’ve had kicking around for a while; a stack of floppies from what appears to be a PD software library, 28 disks in all with a random assortment of stuff on them. They’re not numbered or catalogued but the contents of each disk is printed onto the label, in a slightly...
Read More...The Micro Museum at Ramsgate in Kent, UK
Published: Monday, 26th August 2019
It has been an absolutely baking hot bank holiday weekend here in the South-East of England, so what better way to spend one of the finest days of the year than by visiting the region’s only museum of computing and videogaming history, The Micro Museum? I’ve been meaning to pay a visit here for some...
Read More...Found and Archived: The Mac magazine cover floppies 1994 to 1997
Published: Wednesday, 21st August 2019
Sometimes I *really* love eBay. I have nearly 100 Macintosh-related saved searches on eBay and check through them most days for newly-listed Mac goodies, and have found some really great deals on rare and exciting Apple hardware, software, and ephemera over the years. But I recently had a great find; 57 cover floppy disks from...
Read More...Macintosh Error of Type -412
Published: Wednesday, 12th June 2019
I had a little “blast from the past” the other evening when moving files around on my main OS9 battlestation. I was shifting 6GB of folders full of files and software from one SSD to another and all was going well for the first few gigabytes until it suddenly stopped with the following error message:...
Read More...Pucking Hell! The Apple USB Mouse; A design disaster or storm in a teacup?
Published: Wednesday, 29th May 2019
Apple have done much more right than wrong over the years, redefining personal computing with each bold new step they took; from the original Macintosh and its GUI, through the powerhouse tower Macs of the early 90s, to the ever-slimming notebook range, and into the mobile computing revolution and beyond. That said, despite their many...
Read More...Preserved and Archived: Letterland Software 2 For Mac
Published: Friday, 29th March 2019
Educational software has long been a mainstay across all computer platforms, intended to encourage children to use computers as tools for learning rather than just for gaming or writing essays, and the Macintosh had an absolute galaxy of educational titles published for it throughout the eighties and nineties. One of those titles has found its...
Read More...Macintosh News from 25 Years Ago: Computer Warehouse deals and thoughts on backing up data
Published: Thursday, 31st January 2019
Well, January has absolutely flown by so I figured I’d mark the passing of the first month of 2019 by taking another look back to 25 years ago via the pages of the January 1994 issue of The Mac magazine. I’ve always had a fascination with the cost of computing way-back-when and once made a...
Read More...Donated and Archived: Lode Runner The Legend Returns
Published: Friday, 25th January 2019
I launched VintageAppleMac.com with the intention to create an archive of Macintosh shareware games and utilities. As time has progressed, I’ve expanded the scope of the site to include preservation of a much broader range of Apple software and ephemera from my wider collection. That scope has broadened once more to now include software items...
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