In 2004, Bleu Rose, Ltd. released Black & Blue version 10, a product which was the combined work of three years of Gary Rice’s efforts. The software market was shrinking at the time and while the product was first class, many of the users were not. The release of Black & Bleu™ v10 marks the […]
The Classic Mac Holy Bible (Filemaker) by Darrell Johnson is an application that provides a full-text searchable version of the Holy Bible for classic Macintosh computers. This application can run on Mac OS System 6 through Mac OS 9. It will run on a Mac Plus 68K all the way to the PowerMac G4. It […]
Pierre Dandumont has created a monster. Putting Mac OS 9.2 on the Nintendo Wii. While we have covered some Wii related items in the past, this is the first time where it really comes into the actual Macintosh realm. This install is not exactly a perfect run but it certainly is a good start and […]
The Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller software suite has been updated. Version 1.70 was released by John Morris with the following changes: The most anticipated feature of this release is a powerful new disk writing system that works from the Disk Analyzer. Almost anything that can be loaded into the analyzer can also be written to […]
The Nox Archaist team announced has announced their new expansion pack for Now Archaist, Lord of Storms. According to their website, You have learned of Lord Estintar’s suspicions that the cult has something to do with the increase in storm activity. He charges you with investigating. The task will not be easy, but you accept […]
Kelvin Sherlock has announced the immediate release of the AMPLE Apple specific front end interface for MAME. This interface runs under Mac OS X version 10.11 and later and provides the user an easy to use interface with all of the Apple I, II and III series computers, Apple II clones, and early Macintosh related […]
For this folks who are fans of the Steve Chamberlain created ROM-inator, there is good news. Kay Koba, the owner of Kero’s Mac Mods store has contracted with BMOW to create and sell them again. The ROM-inator is a replacement boot ROM which allows the Mac 128K and 512K to have up to 1mb on […]
Some four decades ago when many of us knew some form of net-based document linkage was coming, just not who would instantiate it and what form it would take, the Spy coined the term “metalibrary” to refer to the collection of all a society’s knowledge, in whatever medium, together with the means of accessing them. […]
Kelvin Sherlock has released a new release of the Ample MAME Interface version 0.236. The previously released version was having a problem with a missing file that was due to a build time problem. The issue has since been corrected and Ample 0.236-1 released. You can download Ample 0.236-1 and the source code for the […]
A new version of the Ample Interface for MAME has been released. With the release of MAME 0.236 two days ago, Kelvin Sherlock has updated his Apple centric Ample Interface to 0.236. The Ample MAME Interface gives users an easy to use configuration panel and selector for the Apple based emulators in MAME. Ample includes […]
For those who love emulation, especially Macintosh Emulation, this one will be right up your alley. Kyle Fox has posted a picture of Shadowgate (Mac 68K version) running on the M1 Macintosh. In order to get there, he had to jump through a few hoops and architectures. The game Shadowgate itself was released in 1987 […]
As many of our readers know, the one and only Dr. Macintosh, Bob Levitus, has retired from the active Mac World. Mac Users Group Network’s Chuck Joiner interviews Bob about his latest endeavors and the goings on now that he has discontinued his focus on the Macintosh. Check out the entire interview here:https://youtu.be/gv74NJeDJrA
For those of us who are Apple and Macintosh fans, we are partial to our machines no matter what age they are. We always hate to see people destroy perfectly good machines. I think Luke Miani knows this as a real Macintosh fan as he has managed to turn an old iMac into an M1 […]
Over the past several years, we have been following along with James Savage and John Leake as they brought us the RetroMacCast Podcast. Since last year James and John have brought back the Video Cast of the RetroMacCast. Now, for those who prefer to actually watch video of the broadcasts rather than just listen, the […]
The 560th episode of the RetroMacCast has been posted to the RetroMacCast website. In this episode, James and John talk about their eBay finds including: MacEffects Mac Portable 8MB card, computer lot, and PowerBook 550c. John also takes the time to talk about a SCSI hard drive replacement, and news includes the Action Retro Libretto Hackintosh, System 7 Today return, Lisa X […]
If you think it is cold where you live, you might try living in Boston in the dead of winter. To top that, MacFixer (@macfixr or https://www.macfixer.com) is doing their annual Put the Macintosh out in the cold and see if it survives trick. Only, this is no ordinary trick. ColdMac 10 is a 2009 […]
Earlier this month, I went looking for the old Mac minix page. I wound up finding a Github page for it as well as a lot of broken links including the link for Brad Pliner’s Mac Minix page which was a major goto page for the Minix Operating system However, thanks to Brad, the news […]
Felix Rieseberg now has a Macintosh Javascript based Emulator App which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that puts a 1991 Apple Macintosh Quadra 900 on your desktop. Complete with all of the features of the original, you also can mount standard Apple disk images using the App. Felix and his team has […]
I have good news and bad news. The Bad News The time has come. I’m sad to announce that I’m closing Working Smarter for Mac Users forever in February. It breaks my heart, but it’s the right thing to do. Although Working Smarter for Mac Users has been my passion project for 4 years, and I don’t regret a […]
The RaSCSI board is now available for old Macs. You could potentially emulate HD’s and CDROM’s with it.RaSCSI is a virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi. It can emulate multiple SCSI devices concurrently, provides a control interface to attach / detach drives, as well as insert and eject removable media. Simply […]