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I didn't set out to be the Cal Ripken of Mac Web news editors, but like the Energizer Bunny I just kept on going, and..... well, here we are.
Actually, I had been contributing columns from time to time on Applelinks before I signed on full-time in August, 1999 as a News Editor/Columnist — coming over from the now-defunct Mac Times Network.
I introduced myself thus eight years ago:
Note to readers: You may have seen my occasional columns here on Applelinks over the past eight months or so, an/or be familiar with my MacCave features on The MacTimes Network and my Road Warrior columns for MacOpinion.
Happily, Applelinks publisher Joe Ryan has invited me to become a regular news editor/columnist here, and my contributions will appear under the name "Moore's Views & Reviews," which pretty accurately describes what you will be reading in them.
In August, 1999, my workhorse computer was the 233 MHz WallStreet PowerBook G3 I had purchased earlier that year. Current Mac models included the PowerBook G3 Lombard and the just-unveiled clamshell iBook, while the top-of-the-line Mac desktop system was still the Blue & White Yosemite G3 Power Macs, although Apple was poised to unveil the very first G4 Power Mac towers less than a month later. On the consumer desktop front, the fruit-colored teardrop Ge iMacs were selling briskly. The current MacOS version was 8.6.
News stories for Aug 10, 1999, included:
vMac Mac Plus Emulator Runs Heritage Software
If you have some favorite (very) old legacy Mac programs that won't run
satisfactorily on your newer machine, the vMac Macintosh Emulator
0.1.9a may be for you.
vMac is a Mac Plus emulator for newer Macs. The developer says that "Many classic titles which refused to run on newer machines should be fully usable under these emulators, which currently emulate only a minimalistic Macintosh system."
vMac says that the latest revision of their Mac Plus emulator is "quite improved over previous efforts," and now able to boot to the Finder.
To use the emulator you will need a System 6.0 boot disk, which is necessary
for vMac to begin booting, and a Macintosh Plus ROM.
German Version Of QuickTime 4.0.2 Released
Germany's MacGadget Mac News Service reports that the German version of
QuickTime 4.0.2 today was released this week. The first localized version of
Apple's multimedia and Internet streaming software is available for both the
MacOS and Windows.
3dfx Broadens Commitment to Mac Platform
3dfx Interactive Inc. has broadened its
commitment to the Macintosh platform with its release of new Voodoo3 developer drivers, available immediately.
The new drivers will enable game developers to create Macintosh versions of their best-selling Windows PC games and harness the power of Voodoo3-based graphics cards for the Mac
A lot has happened in the Mac orbit over the past nine years — G4s, G5s, metal PowerBooks, the Cube came and went, the Mac mini, the MacIntel revolution, the iPod and iTunes Music Store, iLife, the iPhone and of course OS X. It's been quite a party.
Thanks for reading, and here's to more great years bringing you the news and my views about our favorite computing (and these days music and mobile communications) platform!
Charles W. Moore
Charles W. Moore
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Charles, Congratulations!!
Another reason I like to read you - consistency… and faithfulness.
I, like you (even more than you, I think), keep my old Macs in use for a long time. Still using my original Pismo 400 MHz daily, and recently bought my first desktop, a 6 year old PowerMac G4, since I had the LC III. For me, this PowerMac screams compared to what I have been used to. Imagine what I might think if I got a really new Mac. I did have to get my wife a new MacBook last month, but that is exclusively hers to use. For me, I got the free iPod Touch that we qualified for when buying a new Mac, and I can say, on my next overseas trip (Japan), I will not take the Pismo! The Touch is that good. It will be the first time not taking the Pismo in many a year - that thing has been all over the world with me, not missing a lick, except in March when the original 256 MB RAM stick went bad. Took me a while to diagnose that problem, but I did. It now has 1 GB RAM and 100 GB drive. Pismo still has the best keyboard of ANY Mac I have ever used! Why, oh why, cannot Apple go back to making computers like the Pismo is beyond me. “Progress” away from such a machine is not progress!
Again, congratulations (omedetoo gozaimasu - ask your daughter), and keep the keyboards clicking, or in your case, the voice recognition software humming.
God bless,
Jim