Questions tagged [apple-macintosh]
For questions about Apple's Macintosh line of computers.
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How does the early first version of M68K emulator work?
Context: I'm fascinated by Rosetta 2 so I Googled a bit and reached the wiki page. It talked about the M68K emulator (embedded in ROM), and the related wiki page says: Early versions emulated it by ...
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What Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switch is closest to an Apple Extended Keyboard II? [closed]
I would like to buy a mechanical keyboard, but even after using a mechanical keyboard switch tester to try out different types of switches, I can't determine which one I like the best (other than that ...
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Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
During the 80s and 90s, Borland developed several amazing, cutting edge developer products. Their Turbo Pascal and Delphi, an Object Pascal development environment, were very popular on DOS and ...
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What purpose did the lower-right "Enter" key serve on the original Mac 128k keyboard?
The original USA release of the Macintosh came with the M0110 keyboard. Somewhat famous for not including arrow keys because Steve Jobs wanted to encourage developers to use the mouse instead, it also ...
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Did this program exist? [closed]
The name is "pic view" or "picview" the OS is Machintosh (8 or 9, I don't recognize it), but searching on google I cannot find it, did anyone know more? The screenshot is from ...
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Which Old World ROM machines could officially run OS X?
The Wikipedia article SuperDrive–Floppy disk drive section, contains (at the time of writing) the following claim: The end of the SuperDrive coincides with the demise of Old World ROM Macs; with the ...
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What file format was used for binary executables on Motorola 680x0 Macintoshes?
Current macOS binary executable files use a format called "Mach-O" and prior to that there was the PEF "Preferred Object Format", and Wikipedia says "It was optimised for RISC ...
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What was "Mac SLM" or "ASLM"?
While looking through a very old codebase, I found some preprocessor defines and comments referring to something called "Mac SLM" or "ASLM". From the context, it appears to have ...
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Name of application that showed cursor coordinates (both global and local)
There was a classic Macintosh shareware/freeware application - which may have been a CDEV/INIT (control panel or extension), DA (desk accessory), or an application - that displayed both the global and ...
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Setting email up on MacOS System 7
I recently got internet set up on my new Macintosh Color Classic and with a lot of hardship, set up the WebOne proxy, meaning I can load https websites. Most HTML 3+ websites still don't work in iCab, ...
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What were the most common software distribution formats for MacOS Classic?
What were the most common formats for distributing applications for System 6/7-era MacOS Classic? Were applications distributed on floppies/CDs or online/via FTP/via BBSs? And what format were ...
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Building a "hello, world!" program using MPW
I've been setting up a Basilisk II emulator to try my hand at developing apps for 68k System 7 systems, and have set up the Macintosh Programmer's Workstation (v.3.5 Gold Master from ...
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Anyone have a working Apple 13" Trinitron display?
I'd like to add an image of the Trinitron's tungsten wire that was visible on the lower half of the Apple 13" display to the Wikipedia article on the Trinitron. If anyone has one of these ...
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Why did nobody ever succeed in "clean room" cloning the Apple Macintosh?
As is well recorded, in the PC/MS-DOS world, Compaq and Phoenix (among others) successfully "clean-room" implemented their own versions of the IBM BIOS, thus opening the door to the PC clone ...
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Does DB15 actually exist?
I have found a Macintosh Quadra 700 recently, together with an Apple High-Resolution RGB Monitor and want to try out if they are functional. Since both came out slightly before my generation, I am ...
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