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Found this just in time.
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Found this just in time.
I just discovered that id released a Macintosh single-player demo for Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001. The only place I've ever seen it is on a cover CD for the French computer magazine SVM Mac. [1/2]
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I just discovered that id released a Macintosh single-player demo for Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001. The only place I've ever seen it is on a cover CD for the French computer magazine SVM Mac. [1/2]
Seattle Capitol Hill garage sale FTW. There’s only one missing piece…
August 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Seattle Capitol Hill garage sale FTW. There’s only one missing piece…
I’ve wanted a tangerine clamshell iBook since, well, 1999. I finally came across one cheap enough to impulse-buy. This poor fella has seen some stuff: lots of cracked plastic, kaput battery and trackpad, weird black goo either on or coming out of it. [1/2]
August 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’ve wanted a tangerine clamshell iBook since, well, 1999. I finally came across one cheap enough to impulse-buy. This poor fella has seen some stuff: lots of cracked plastic, kaput battery and trackpad, weird black goo either on or coming out of it. [1/2]
There was definitely one for DOS/Windows. Here's something on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/205505447097 and this disc on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Zork_Nemesis_demo is an "Interactive Preview". But did these have a Macintosh sibling?
August 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There was definitely one for DOS/Windows. Here's something on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/205505447097 and this disc on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Zork_Nemesis_demo is an "Interactive Preview". But did these have a Macintosh sibling?
My current leading theory is that there was a "Zork Nemesis Demo CD", maybe bundled with other games, which included the "ZNemDemo" directory that the installer needs. Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
August 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My current leading theory is that there was a "Zork Nemesis Demo CD", maybe bundled with other games, which included the "ZNemDemo" directory that the installer needs. Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
Okay, this just reminded me that I have a physical copy of one of these CDs. Let me try physical CD / physical machine.
August 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Okay, this just reminded me that I have a physical copy of one of these CDs. Let me try physical CD / physical machine.
The installer on this CD https://archive.org/details/mac-addict-s-utilities is 288K, which usually means there are invisible files hidden somewhere on the CD. Looking around with Greg's Browser, nothing stands out except for that "find me" text file at the root. [1/2]
August 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The installer on this CD https://archive.org/details/mac-addict-s-utilities is 288K, which usually means there are invisible files hidden somewhere on the CD. Looking around with Greg's Browser, nothing stands out except for that "find me" text file at the root. [1/2]
I've run across this Zork Nemesis demo on maybe a half-dozen magazine cover CDs, and it fails to install - with the same error message - on every Mac OS version, emulator, or physical computer I try. [1/2]
August 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I've run across this Zork Nemesis demo on maybe a half-dozen magazine cover CDs, and it fails to install - with the same error message - on every Mac OS version, emulator, or physical computer I try. [1/2]
Macintosh Cover CDs at classicmacdemos.com can now link to their respective DiscMaster entries, so you can browse their contents either in an Infinite Mac emulator or at DiscMaster, whichever you prefer. E.g., https://classicmacdemos.com/disc/macformat-disc-97/
July 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Macintosh Cover CDs at classicmacdemos.com can now link to their respective DiscMaster entries, so you can browse their contents either in an Infinite Mac emulator or at DiscMaster, whichever you prefer. E.g., https://classicmacdemos.com/disc/macformat-disc-97/
Okay, I carefully mounted this second SSD and now I’m going to reinstall Mac OS X Server, this time using spell check.
July 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Okay, I carefully mounted this second SSD and now I’m going to reinstall Mac OS X Server, this time using spell check.
Darn it. "macinotsh".
July 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Darn it. "macinotsh".
This looks promising…
July 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This looks promising…
Maybe this will work? 🤞
July 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Maybe this will work? 🤞
Here's a two-node #RabbitMQ cluster, where one node is a PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger host, and the other is Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Intel.
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
July 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here's a two-node #RabbitMQ cluster, where one node is a PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger host, and the other is Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Intel.
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
There's no reason for this to exist, and I honestly doubted it would even work, but there you have it!
I'm planning to package this up along with some [1/2]
I pointed a VM of the old Google Search Appliance at one of my retrocomputing project websites, and... remember when Google search results looked like this?
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I pointed a VM of the old Google Search Appliance at one of my retrocomputing project websites, and... remember when Google search results looked like this?
The venerable text adventure engine Frotz has a Tigerbrew package now, so vintage Mac OS X users are three terminal commands and fewer than ten seconds away from playing almost anything in the amazing collection at Internet Fiction Archive.
May 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The venerable text adventure engine Frotz has a Tigerbrew package now, so vintage Mac OS X users are three terminal commands and fewer than ten seconds away from playing almost anything in the amazing collection at Internet Fiction Archive.
CW: Alcohol
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
May 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
CW: Alcohol
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
Vancouver is such a beautiful city.
The net result of all this is that I can fire off a build across all five OS/CPU combinations, and that's pretty nifty.
May 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The net result of all this is that I can fire off a build across all five OS/CPU combinations, and that's pretty nifty.
Pro tip: to run a Mac OS X host headless, you *must* turn off this setting, or it will just hang out asking if you want it to look for a mouse before it starts a bunch of network services. Even if you've turned Bluetooth off. This was not obvious to me!
May 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Pro tip: to run a Mac OS X host headless, you *must* turn off this setting, or it will just hang out asking if you want it to look for a mouse before it starts a bunch of network services. Even if you've turned Bluetooth off. This was not obvious to me!
I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.
May 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.
I hadn’t remembered just how physically large external FireWire DVD drives were.
May 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I hadn’t remembered just how physically large external FireWire DVD drives were.