Fundraiser to buy and archive 3 year collection of Apple Sales & Marketing CDs
Published: Monday, 21st January 2019
Hello folks! OK, here’s a curveball for you; I’m running a fundraiser! 😀 This is to fund the purchase of a large collection of Apple Sales & Marketing Resource Library CDs from a seller in America. They have them listed at $399.99 plus $90 for international shipping and that’s *way* above my budget! I did...
Read More...The Alternative Mac Manual by MacFormat
Published: Wednesday, 16th January 2019
Vintage Macintosh retrocomputing is a great hobby to get into but, for those who have only ever used Windows or for OSX users that never experienced the “classic” Mac OS, there is a steep learning curve to overcome before the hobby can really come alive for them. The web has many Macintosh resources available (not...
Read More...Twin Peaks Bedside Companion HyperCard Stack
Published: Thursday, 3rd January 2019
Phew! That article title’s quite the mouthful, eh? But it does exactly what it says on the tin, I’m writing about a HyperCard stack called “Twin Peaks Bedside Companion”! But why? Well, I was thumbing through the January 1994 issue of The Mac yesterday after publishing this article on one of its features and my...
Read More...Macintosh News from 25 Years Ago: The Mac Decade
Published: Wednesday, 2nd January 2019
In a new regular feature on VintageAppleMac.com, I will be looking back through time and poring over the ups and downs in the world of Apple and the Macintosh from a quarter of a century ago. I have a large collection of Apple magazines (500 or so!) and these are fascinating time capsules, filled with...
Read More...Glider by John Calhoun
Published: Friday, 28th December 2018
I started researching for an article on a different game by another early Mac shareware author but got completely derailed by reading about Glider instead. Glider is a legendary early Macintosh game, considered by many to be one of the best. The object of the game is to guide a paper glider through a series...
Read More...Xmas Lemmings for Macintosh
Published: Saturday, 22nd December 2018
It’s that most wonderful time of the year, so let’s all celebrate with a seasonably-themed demo version of the classic rescue-em-up and have a look at the Macintosh version of Xmas Lemmings! This is a simple, 4-level demo version of Lemmings, released in 1992 by Psygnosis as part of the ongoing promotion of their main...
Read More...Clinton Issues HyperCard Stack
Published: Friday, 21st December 2018
My main hobbyist Mac is a PowerMac G4 MDD running OS9 that I’ve souped up like crazy with maxed out RAM, a couple of SSDs, various PCI cards, silent fans fitted, LEDs, etc. I love it, it’s an absolute beast of a machine and is, in my opinion, the best way to experience OS9. One...
Read More...MacWorld UK 2000 and 2001 magazine PDFs
Published: Thursday, 20th December 2018
Back in the summer, I posted an article about a CD I had found that contained all of the 1999 issues of MacWorld UK, and I uploaded them all to the site. I grumbled then that I also had CDs for 2000 and 2001 but the PDFs were hidden and not immediately accessible. I promised...
Read More...Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library January 1999 CD Pack
Published: Tuesday, 18th December 2018
I tweeted about this a few weeks ago as I was so delighted to get my hands on another one of these amazing packs that I couldn’t wait for my site rebuild to get finished before I made a noise about it. But the site is done so here’s an article making some noise! Way...
Read More...And we’re back! Site rebuild complete but there’s work to do
Published: Saturday, 15th December 2018
Dear reader, it’s been a while since I put finger to keyboard and published an article here on vintageapplemac.com, with the most recent being way back in July when I wrote about the Apple Art Library I had found on a Sales & Marketing Resource CD. That was a fun little article, with some awesome...
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