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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-12-11

  Craig Hickman - The History of Kid Pix (2013)

How a little paint program became a worldwide phenomenon. Original text by Craig Hickman. Craig talks about his 8-bit Atari projects on episode 378 of the ANTIC Podcast. Apple honoured Craig in their already-zapped-from-history Macintosh 30th Anniver...
  Derek author
2024-11-10

  Greg Maletic on OpenDoc (2006)

Original text by Greg Maletic who is now at Panic, one of the few people left making beautiful native non-Electron, non-Flutter Mac desktop applications–an endangered species. A technical walkthrough of OpenDoc from co-architect Kurt Piersol. Best com...
  Derek author
2024-10-19

  Apple's 1989 Year In Review (1990)

Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld January 1990. The sad story of dBASE Mac, which was quickly sold off and briefly revived as nuBASE. Followup article. MindWrite and how it relates to the collapse of mail order house Icon Review. Useless produc...
  Derek author
2024-10-05

  That Time I Had Steve Jobs Keynote at Unix Expo (1991)

Original text by Chris MacAskill at the now-defunct cake.co. “Team FDA” jean jacket pictures in the comments (scroll down). Steve Jobs with the 1991 Unix Expo keynote audience under hypnosis. (scroll down) Lotus Improv tutorial VHS tape, Lotus techn...
  Derek author
2024-09-09

  Steve Hayman - A Different Apple/NeXT Story (1995)

Original text by Steve Hayman. Humungous Entertainment’s CD-ROM titles for classic Macs. The infamous Power Mac 5200 featured the horrendously slow PowerPC 603 (not the 603e). As if that wasn’t bad enough, a recycled motherboard design fed the 603’s ...
  Derek author
2024-08-10

  The Desktop Critic - High Trek (1994)

Original text by David Pogue, Macworld May 1994. Products mentioned in this article: Interplay’s “Star Trek: 25th Anniversary” adventure game download, CD-ROM download with voice acting, complete playthrough on YouTube. David Landis’ Stak Trek episo...
  Derek author
2024-07-10

  Left Behind: A Be, Inc. and BeOS Post-Mortem (2024)

A broader look at the circumstances surrounding the demise of BeOS. Original text by me. Text version available. No links here this time; they’re all inside the text version.
  Derek author
2024-06-08

  Calling In Sick

MFR will be off its usual schedule while your host recovers from a brutal flu. Sound effect from MacPuke/MacBarfX.
  Derek author
2024-05-14

  Jean-Louis Gassée Interview (1998)

A snapshot of Be’s direction in 1998 post-Apple merger talks and pre-bankruptcy. Original text by Henry Bortman. Selected Jean-Louis Gassée quotes: “Who could have put a date on not getting fired for using Linux?” “One of my role models is Michael ...
  Derek author
2024-05-08

  A Short Story About SCSI (1991)

A short story about long cables. Original text by Steve Riggins. Macworld San Francisco 1999: Steve Jobs pokes fun at legacy parallel SCSI-1 versus FireWire.
  Derek author