Classic Mac Survival Kit
Published: Friday, 11th August 2017
Every vintage Apple Mac enthusiast knows the importance of having a stockpile of key software to call upon when refurbishing or maintaining their collection. Well, here’s an off-the-shelf solution that’ll answer the prayers of many of us. I briefly wrote about the Classic Mac Survival Kit in an earlier entry but I’ll recap; it is a...
Read More...How God Makes God by Peter Small
Published: Thursday, 10th August 2017
Sometimes, creative men (and women!) have vision that is utterly unlike anything their peers have produced before, or since. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Peter Small and How God Makes God. I’ve been making a big noise on Twitter (follow me @vintageapplemac!) about my in-browser emulation work at the Internet Archive and...
Read More...NEED MORE INPUT
Published: Wednesday, 2nd August 2017
What does the guy who has a 30GB+ Macintosh software archive need? More Macintosh software, of course! This week I have been mostly acquiring data. These are all from disk images I’ve sourced from the Internet Archive or the Macintosh Garden, and they are absolutely chock full of goodies! I’m going through a trawl across...
Read More...MacJesus, Your Personal Savior On A Floppy Disk
Published: Friday, 28th July 2017
Sometimes you come across a piece of software from Times Of Yore that really makes you stop and boggle at the insanity of it. And MacJesus is one of those games! This will just be a quick article but I had to share it with the world, as it’s just too whacky not to! MacJesus...
Read More...Three absolute classics
Published: Tuesday, 25th July 2017
There’s good retro games, and then there’s absolutely fantastic retro games! And we’ve got some of those playable in-browser for you right now! It’s time to start exploring some of the work I’ve been doing at the Internet Archive’s Macintosh Library. The library has hit 100 items now, many of which are games. The Macintosh has...
Read More...Vintage Mac at home and in the office
Published: Friday, 21st July 2017
When your vintage Mac hobby has taken over your home, what do you do? Bring it into your place of work, too! That’s what I did earlier this week, when I set up a G4 iMac with OS9.2.2 installed on my office desk. So, my productivity’s going to go down the toilet, right? Probably. The...
Read More...Yesterday was a Good Day
Published: Friday, 21st July 2017
What a day yesterday was! Made a couple of super-hot items for the Internet Archive Macintosh emulator and then launched a Patreon for vintageapplemac.com! First, the emulator items; The Manhole, a HyperCard-based game by Myst creators the Miller brothers, and the first 100 HyperCard issues of TidBITS. All seemed to have gone swimmingly, with...
Read More...Game on!
Published: Wednesday, 19th July 2017
It’s been a busy time lately on the vintage Macintosh front for me, with a few projects ticking over. In particular, the work I’m doing with the Internet Archive’s Mac software library has been great fun and very productive! I’ve written about this project in previous entries but, in short, the Internet Archive can now emulate...
Read More...Creating Macintosh disk images for the Internet Archive
Published: Wednesday, 17th May 2017
Following up from my last article, the Internet Archive’s Macintosh emulator is awesome and a huge achievement, and you can get involved! Over the last couple of months of experimenting with it, I’ve developed a workflow and process for easily creating items for emulation. So, here’s my methodology you can follow that will result in...
Read More...Early Macintosh emulated in-browser
Published: Wednesday, 17th May 2017
Hello! Apologies for the radio silence, it’s been a busy few months with home, family, and work, but also vintage Mac stuff! Not least of all, I’ve been working on the Internet Archive’s mind-blowing in-browser emulation of early Macintosh software! In short, the Internet Archive has long been hosting emulated operating systems and games consoles,...
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