Tag Archives: Macintosh

Bungie’s Marathon Home Movies, Resurrected

Here is a 26 minute making of, found on the Marathon Trilogy CD-ROM*, hidden as an invisible file inside a folder containing Bungie’s first game, Gnop. Nowadays it’s harder than ever to dig into a Mac Classic OS 9 CD-ROM and watch this clip. So I’m posting this here. For posterity and because long before [...]

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Leopard First Impressions

Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata. It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, [...]

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Office For Mac – A Dark History

More revealing emails are getting pushed around the blogosphere, this time revealing that Microsoft contemplated killing Office for Mac back in 1997, supposedly to hurt Apple. It seems that the Mac community is pushing “I told you so!” and reminding everyone that Microsoft is a dangerous monopoly. Maybe so. However, Daring Fireball quotes Paul Thurrott [...]

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