Archived: Ubuntu 5.10 for PPC Mac Here’s a cool find that I picked up from eBay for a couple of quid, Ubuntu 5.10 for Mac! I’ve got a Mac Mini G4 (the 1.5Ghz “silent upgrade” model) so installing this OS will be a neat thing to do with it. I’ve had this Mac Mini for a while but have struggled to... Read More...

Archived: The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy HyperCard Expanded Book Phew! That title is quite the mouthful! It would have been longer if I’d included the author’s name (the late, great Douglas Adams, of course) and the publishing company (Voyager) but I figured I’d best truncate it. But I digress! I am absolutely delighted to present to the world the wonderful Hitchhiker’s Guide To The... Read More...

Archived and emulated: If Monks Had Macs Original 1988 Version I’m guessing that most readers of VintageAppleMac.com will have heard of HyperCard before. If not, it was a revolutionary piece of Apple software that allowed the creation of multimedia applications using the concept of HyperText long before Tim Berners-Lee had dreamed up the World Wide Web. A lot of very creative people used it to... Read More...

Archived: Volume 1 Issue 1 of Apple Business magazine, from March 1988 It’s been a while since I last updated the site. I’ve been very busy “in real life” and have also had a few other projects vying for my attention. But that’s no excuse for neglecting my wonderful Macintosh hobby and I will start to put that right immediately. So, without further ado, allow me to... Read More...

AMihkal: Apple Mice I Have Known and Loved (And One That I Detest) I’ve been a Mac user since 2007, when I went to uni to study photography and bought a MacBook because I figured that I might as well get to grips with the industry standard computer platform sooner rather than later. It was an instant revelation, I simply couldn’t comprehend how much better a user-experience Mac... Read More...

Software Of The Month Club CDs What has been a real nice part of my VintageAppleMac.com journey is the following that I’ve acquired on Twitter. I’ve been very fortunate to meet and interact with some really cool people on there and it often feels like a real neat and well-informed little retrocomputing community. So I was not surprised to receive a... Read More...

Macintosh Public Domain Library Floppy Collection Here’s a curious collection I’ve had kicking around for a while; a stack of floppies from what appears to be a PD software library, 28 disks in all with a random assortment of stuff on them. They’re not numbered or catalogued but the contents of each disk is printed onto the label, in a slightly... Read More...

The Micro Museum at Ramsgate in Kent, UK It has been an absolutely baking hot bank holiday weekend here in the South-East of England, so what better way to spend one of the finest days of the year than by visiting the region’s only museum of computing and videogaming history, The Micro Museum? I’ve been meaning to pay a visit here for some... Read More...

Found and Archived: The Mac magazine cover floppies 1994 to 1997 Sometimes I *really* love eBay. I have nearly 100 Macintosh-related saved searches on eBay and check through them most days for newly-listed Mac goodies, and have found some really great deals on rare and exciting Apple hardware, software, and ephemera over the years. But I recently had a great find; 57 cover floppy disks from... Read More...