I recently got on a kick of old educational games: The Learning Company‘s Super Solvers series, MECC‘s DinoPark Tycoon, etc. One game I started playing is Sierra‘s The Island of Dr. Brain, the only of the four Sierra-developed Dr. Brain titles that I never played while growing up. The first two games in the series, [...]
I’ve been knocking a game idea around in my head for a little while: a maze game where you can move any number of squares in a straight line, but once you move by a specific number of squares, you can’t move by that exact number again. I thought it was a pretty interesting idea, [...]
<@Crash> China’s Wang wins third gold medal at short track <@Crash> Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2010/?eref=sinav#ixzz0ghvk2qyP <@Crash> WTF? <@Crash> I didn’t even copypasta that part! <@Crash> I was all hooray for China’s Wang, but that came out too <@Crash> That shit’s just fucking rude now. More and more companies are integrating software called Tynt Insight (formerly Tynt [...]
There’s this one guy on the internet named Peter Hosey who recently started a blog feature called “Ship-It Saturday,” where he’s posting projects that are basically done save for maybe one or two niggling things, in the interest of just getting them done I mean seriously come on. I’ve been thinking about it since he [...]
This installment in the series will be a special one for a couple of reasons. First off, this is not a CD that I or my family originally owned. Unlike the CDs in the previous two installments and the ones I intend to cover in the future, I snagged this one from a college professor [...]
Last night, I had a problem with Xcode not recognizing a provisioned iPhone. After some fiddling and a screen sharing session, the problem was fixed with a hardware reset to the iPhone. Apple and its products, like most of our world, have changed over the past thirty-three years, even over just the past decade. A [...]
This is another followup to the The Macintosh Demo Applications CD Version 1.1 post. It’s the last one, and it’ll be really quick, I promise. One of the demos, or demo groups, rather, was for HyperGlot Software Company, who made several language-learning applications. I peeked at the ICON resources for the general HyperGlot demo; the [...]
This is an ancillary post to my previous one on The Macintosh Demo Applications CD Version 1.1, based on an observation I made while preparing the icon images for the application list. Before I begin, I need to provide a brief overview of file icons in the classic Mac OS, starting with I believe System [...]
Well, I’ve actually gone ahead and made a second installment, which officially makes “Old Mac CDs” a feature! This one is another Centris 610 CD: The Macintosh Demo Applications CD Version 1.1 (CDRM-1044940)
Starting up a new feature which, in the spirit of this blog, will not even pretend to have a regular update schedule. I’ll be taking a look at some old Macintosh CDs I find lying around, giving you pictures and descriptions of content and all that good stuff. I’m planning on sticking to CDs bundled [...]