Apple Art Library
Published: Friday, 6th July 2018
I was overjoyed to stumble across a great find on a near quarter century old Macintosh CD recently; the Apple Art Library! I often scour the web for obscure Macintosh files, looking for anything weird and whacky to play with and then archive here. Jason Scott, free-range archivist at Internet Archive, uploaded a bunch of...
Read More...Macworld 1999 magazine PDFs
Published: Saturday, 23rd June 2018
Here’s some Saturday evening entertainment for you: all of the Macworld UK magazines from 1999 in PDF format! Note that I specify “Macworld UK”. These are the British editions of the magazine so quite different from the 1999 scans of the US edition found on the Internet Archive and in various other places on the...
Read More...Mac Selection Shovelware CDs
Published: Saturday, 3rd March 2018
Following on from my previous article discussing my magazine cover disc collection, I’ve been poring over a bunch of early CDs and came across a couple of gems I’d forgotten I had; Mac Selection volumes 6 and 7! These are really nice examples of the mid to late 90s “shovelware” phenomenom, where distributors would compile...
Read More...Magazine cover discs aka shiny little plastic time capsules
Published: Monday, 26th February 2018
Whilst it’s loads of fun tinkering with old Mac computers and playing old games, the experience is inherently in the abstract; it’s 2018 and we’re doing this stuff decades after the fact. But there are ways to immerse ourselves more fully in the moment. At the absolute heart of my Macintosh collection is a great...
Read More...Apple Peripheral Systems brochure
Published: Friday, 16th February 2018
Well, it’s been a while since my last substantive article so I thought I’d scan and upload some decades old Apple marketing literature! But first, let me fill you in with what I’ve been up to. I spent much of January in “Acquisition Mode”, which was basically me spending money on eBay in pursuit of...
Read More...GayOS
Published: Sunday, 21st January 2018
Because inclusivity starts at your start up screen! Just a very quick post to share this thing I found in my archive (some 60GB or so of stuff I have spread across a few Mac-formatted drives!) of software; GayOS. It’s a startup screen graphic, and one celebrating gay pride. It’s easy to forget, in these...
Read More...Transferring files between vintage Macs and the modern world
Published: Friday, 29th December 2017
You’ve got a vintage Macintosh and some games on floppy but you want more! From where, I hear you cry! From the web, of course! The internet is chock full of great software (not least of all on vintageapplemac.com with our tens of gigabytes of Mac shareware!) but getting it from the internet to your...
Read More...Putting preaching into practice and helping a hobbyist out
Published: Sunday, 17th December 2017
I’ve waxed lyrical recently about the value of software preservation, particularly the preservation of software from floppy disks, and had a chance to put my philosophy to the test when a cry for help went up in a Macintosh group on Facebook. A user was looking for a copy of disk 2 of ClarisWorks 2.0,...
Read More...Battle of the Disk Copy versions
Published: Tuesday, 5th December 2017
So, my previous article raised a few heckles here and there but I did learn something interesting regarding Disk Copy. In short, I had included in my floppy preservation methodology the use of Disk Copy 6.3.3 to make images of Macintosh floppies. Turns out that that might not be the best idea as 6.3.3 makes...
Read More...The best way to preserve Macintosh software from floppy disks
Published: Sunday, 3rd December 2017
I’ve been mulling lately on how to best preserve Mac software that’s tucked away on floppy disks, and I’ve got some thoughts to share. Firstly, and most importantly, *now* is the time for all Macintosh enthusiasts to back-up their floppy collections to hard disk. Seriously, finish this article and then go and back up everything...
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