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SkiFree has been recompiled using VS2019 for modern Windows
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How HyperCard got its color back
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Hewlett Packard HP-15C Simulator
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Official SkiFree Home Page
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Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb (2021)
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PCalc, an Origin Story
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A New Old Idea; Permacomputing
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Switcher (2004)
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Emacs Timeline
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DOS Nostalgia: On using a modern DOS workstation
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Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
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Why we need Lisp machines
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The World of Vintage Operating Systems
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Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)
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So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?
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Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine
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Build your own SPARC workstation
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Busy Being Born (2004)
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Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation
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Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps
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Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?
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ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]
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Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?
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PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000
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By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
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Swift on Mac OS 9
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Your First THINK C Program
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Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)
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Apple's long processor journey
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KnightOS was an interesting operating system
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NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation
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WinWorld: online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software
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The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years
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Evaluating Vax Lisp 3.1
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MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser
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MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)
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Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011)
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The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (2010)
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Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
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Databases have failed the web
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NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened
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Macintosh Garden – Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware
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Compiling a Mac OS 8 Application on MacOS Sierra
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NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and Driver Kit (1995)
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The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming
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Why do we need a new OS?
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An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend
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How Blender started, twenty years ago
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Building Photoshop 1.0
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Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
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Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks
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The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox)
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Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said
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Turbo Pascal Turns 40
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When the Power Macintosh Ran NetWare (Featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)
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War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
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The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April
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An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
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Palm OS and the devices that ran it
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-Pad Slate, Everyone's a WiiN-Er
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macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner
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Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
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Of Psion and Symbian
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Windows NT for Power Macintosh
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Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit
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The Origin of Emacs in 1976
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0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
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