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MkLinux DR3! Kind of a bear to install on this Power Mac 7300, because MkLinux and LinuxPPC don’t like BlueSCSI. So it’s installed on a physical hard drive. Mac OS 8.1, BeOS, and Windows for Workgroups are on the BlueSCSI. [1/2]
The Zork Nemesis Demo CD-ROM is now up on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/zork-nemesis-cd-rom-demo What's interesting about this is that it might be the only existing copy of this game demo for Macintosh. [1/3]
Zork Nemesis CD-ROM Demo : Activision : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Demo for the game Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands, sold as a standalone CD-ROM for Windows 95, MS-DOS, and Macintosh. This may be the only known source for...
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There’s the first batch of things I’m going to swap/sell/give away at the Retro Computer Swap Meet next weekend. Once I go through my whole collection I’ll certainly have more than this. It feels nice to prune out the things from projects I’ve finished or decided not to do.
This week's project is to take stock of my retro computer collection before next weekend's Seattle Retro Computer Swap Meet. You're not going to believe this but I might have slightly too many old computers.
So, Settings search just... doesn't work at all in #macOS27 ? This happens on both my macbook and mac mini.
Got my hands on a stack of MacFormat CDs from the 2000s to scan and upload to #internetarchive today. These are all discs that are missing from IA, or a few cases where there's a disc but no pictures. [1/2]
I’m glad to live in a world where some guy in Ontario doesn’t have buyer’s remorse about his CD ROM drive.
Couple of #VCFMW pickups. Remembering when it was important for some reason that your computer game packaging include some stationery.
One more little new feature, probably the final one before I take a break for #VCFMW - in addition to reading text files off old Mac CDs, you can see a few types of image files. https://coverdiscs.com/disc/macaddict-issue-003/1/541-parrots-jpeg.jpg
Another new feature: now the file browser at coverdiscs.com shows the contents of text files from cataloged CDs, directly on the website. https://coverdiscs.com/disc/macaddict-issue-031/1/24-about-the-disc.txt
Coverdiscs.com
Coverdiscs.com is a digital collection of Macintosh Cover CDs from the 1990s and 2000s, most of which were bundled with computer magazines of the time.
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I just added a search feature that lets you search the contents of the collection at coverdiscs.com: https://coverdiscs.com/search/ . It's super preliminary, but it's been fun to try out old classic-era games and apps and see all the CDs they were bundled on. [1/2]
Coverdiscs.com
Coverdiscs.com is a digital collection of Macintosh Cover CDs from the 1990s and 2000s, most of which were bundled with computer magazines of the time.
coverdiscs.com
It took all month (and a bit of July) but I uploaded 94 new vintage Macintosh magazine cover CDs to Internet Archive. Super happy to have these available for everyone now. https://archive.org/details/@jcgraybill/lists/9/aug-2026-cd-contributions?sort=-publicdate
I’ve come across a bunch of old CD-ROMs that have these black rubber rings around the outer edge. I’ve never seen these before - is anyone familiar with them? They pull right off, and definitely aren’t compatible with a slot-loading drive. Whatever could they have been for?
Tired of dealing with the onion of Vintage Mac archived files? Struggling to extract game.img.cpt.sit.bin.hqx files with emulators & 20 different programs each with their quirks? Checkout What The SIT! v2 (all in browser) #VintageMac Public post with the detail: www.patreon.com/nulleric/pos...
What the SIT?! | Eric Helgeson
It happens all the time - someone buys or builds a BlueSCSI then tries to get some files to their Mac. The file is an onion of archive forma
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BEWARE Vintage Computer buyers from outside US. Your stuff will be e-wasted! I bought an Epson PF-10 floppy drive from the US (I am in Canada) and as it travelled thru eBay Intl Shipping, it was "Liquidated" and I got a refund. Apparently a new US policy is the reason. kotaku.com/trumps-new-e...
I have *some* folder icons displaying now in the Coverdiscs.com file browser. It's been a real learning experience to wrestle with parsing and making sense of HFS images, so I'd still consider this whole feature "extremely janky". https://coverdiscs.com/disc/macaddict-issue-021/
A fun lil feature I'm working on: showing the contents of a disc on its webpage. It's just on a few dozen discs while I'm ironing out the kinks. Even in very preliminary shape, it's neat to see this without going through the whole effort of loading up an emulator. [1/2]
A Coverdiscs.com contributor made a clever suggestion this morning: show the collection in calendar view, so you can browse the discs by the month they were released. I cobbled together a quick version, and it's pretty fun! https://coverdiscs.com/calendar/
Hey #internetarchive fans, does anybody know of a way to find the DiscMaster URL (i.e. https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/31981 ) for a particular internet archive identifier (i.e. https://archive.org/details/macworld-march-2000 )? Most ideal would be a way to do this programmatically. [1/2]
Macworld CD March 2000 : Macworld : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Macworld CD March 2000
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I had a lot of fun building https://classicmacdemos.com/ . Looking back over the past 12 months, I've cataloged 454 CD cover discs and added 13 new demos to the website. It's safe to say that what I'm interested in right now is archiving and cataloging cover discs.
Classic Macintosh Game Demos
A collection of game demos for vintage Macintosh computers with operating systems through Mac OS 9, especially games from the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
classicmacdemos.com
I wish there were a way to add to or edit the information on someone else's Internet Archive upload. It feels a little wasteful to create a whole duplicate item just because I have, for example, an image of a CD.
New batch of Macintosh magazine cover discs just landed! I’ll start digitizing and archiving these over the weekend. On first look, there are a good amount in here that I’ve never come across in digital form, so I’m excited to get these into Internet Archive.
I'm upgrading this trashcan Mac from quad core to a twelve core CPU. I'm trying to decide which OS version will be most fun to run on it. The trashcans were compatible with Mavericks through Monterey.
Post- #MARCHintosh , I thought it would be nice to contribute the game demos from my #GlobalTalk game demo library to Macintosh Garden, in any cases where I have something they don't. After uploading the first three games, I'm blocked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By the end of my first #GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh , visitors had dropped off 25 greetings, I discovered a dozen or so new retrocomputing folks to follow on Mastodon, and I picked up a little over 100 little icon packs, games, and utilities that people were sharing in their zones. [1/2]
