An interesting change between Macintosh System 5 and System 6 - TeachText 1.1 by Bryan Stearns; TeachText 1.2 by Apple Computer. Slowly losing personalisation in the OS.

@NewtonMark Spice brought him back.

The shiny new Apple CarPlay start screen on iOS 26.

The things I do just to run @ivory on unsupported hardware! #macpro2013 #oclp

@stroughtonsmith It feels like Beta 2 is eating my Series 6 Cellular faster than Beta 1.

@_the_cloud @smallsco Pop it right in there.

@_the_cloud @smallsco When I was at Uni in 1987 I’m sure we used MacPascal, or was it called Macintosh Pascal. I bought my own (well, parents did I’m sure) Macintosh 512ED with a second 800K drive. An Epson LX-86 did quite a few Pascal and SQL print-outs.

Give Bruce a call on extension 3279 if you have any questions or suggestions.

Another amazing thing about Oct 1983 Macintosh Finder. 4 digit year in the 'Simple Clock' desk accessory.

@camwilson I don’t understand how not having an account and viewing content is OK, and having an account and viewing content is not OK.

@smallsco What I find funny about this desktop (from a 4 October 1983 Finder), is the ‘Coke’ icons. John Sculley had started in April 1983. From Pepsi. Surely Bruce and the team knew ;)

@smallsco And another with an new folder created. Is that @Cdespinosa Calculator? :)

@smallsco It even runs pre-release System Software on a Mac 128K. Outstanding.

A brand new 68k Mac emulator quietly dropped last night!!

“Snow” can emulate the Mac 128k, 512k, Plus, SE, Classic, and II. It supports reading disks from bitstream and flux-floppy images, and offers full execution control and debugging features for the emulated CPU. Written using Rust, it doesn't do any ROM patching or system call interception, instead aiming for accurate hardware-level emulation.

Download link (Mac, Windows, Linux): https://snowemu.com
Documentation link: https://docs.snowemu.com
Source link: https://github.com/twvd/snow
Release announcement: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12509

(edit: I'm not the author - just spotted this on the Emaculation forum and had to share it!)

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac #68k #emulation

@chockenberry Napster! Limewire!

Something new I noticed this morning in the car with iOS 26 Beta - a new splash screen on the phone when CarPlay loaded. As well as the CarPlay logo, it showed the Apple logo and the word CarPlay. Should have been quicker and taken a screen shot.

@lisamelton @kocienda Best. Browser. Ever. But imagine if CyberDog was continued!

When do I have to start learning about this AI thing? Is the bubble going to burst? Has the world run out of money to build it yet?

New drive installed in 2013 Mac Pro. Still running Monterey (highest OS supported). If the drive behaves I'll 'upgrade' with OCLP.

How much of the 5% defense spending is with US companies? Would be hilarious if the whole lot was with non-US.