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Grackle68k: a Classic Mac OS Twitter app

by Dave Caolo (Nov 17th, 2009)

It's always nice to own the latest and greatest Apple hardware, but some of us still use vintage machines. I've got a G3 All-In-One on my workbench that displays iFixIt PDFs while I work. I'll admit that I've wanted to tweet from that machine from a dedicated app, and now I can. Grackle68k is a ...

Leopard: now with 100% less Classic

by Scott McNulty (Oct 25th, 2007)

This Apple tech doc is making the rounds on the Mac blogs today. That's right folks, more than 5 years after Steve declared OS 9 dead (that's Classic to those of you who have only known OS X) it seems that Classic really is dead. Leopard will no longer run Classic apps, and Apple suggests you ...

This Old Mac: Icebooks

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 1st, 2007)

Remember when Apple ditched the clamshell iBooks and created the sleeker "icebook" form factor? My wife calls them Chiclets. Well we have 3 of them: a 500 MHz G3 from 2001 with a 10GB drive, a 800MHz G4 with a 60GB drive but a busted optical drive, and a 1.2GHz G4 with a 30GB drive but working ...

Run Classic on an Intel Mac

by Scott McNulty (Aug 21st, 2006)

We have covered SheepShaver before here on TUAW, the PowerPC emulator that makes running Classic a possibility on Intel Macs so, but we just pointed out that it exists. The good folks at UNEASYsilence have gone through the trouble of putting together a tutorial on how to get Classic up and running ...

GameRanger to drop OS 9 support, eventually

by Scott McNulty (Jun 6th, 2006)

Inside Mac Games reports that GameRanger, the online Mac gaming service, will stop supporting booting GameRanger client in OS 9 at some point this year. This should surprise no one since OS 9 hasn't been commercially available for years. Now, for you game crazy OS 9 holdouts, fear not. The ...

Found Footage: OS 9's funeral

by Scott McNulty (Apr 21st, 2006)

Ah, a walk down memory lane. Sit back and watch his Steveness conduct OS 9's funeral at 2002's WWDC. ...

Now that you've turned your Mac into a PC, turn it into a Mac again

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 6th, 2006)

So you've done the formerly impossible and unnecessary: installed Winders on a Mac. Cool, best of both worlds. But there you are, staring at that awful primary color, jumbo crayon, sickly plasticky XP theme. Yeah, you could use one of the many mods featured on Download Squad (please, feel free). Or ...