Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 10, 2022
Haiku approaches Beta 4, Apple II Desktop updated, GNOME Shell Mobile, Quake ported to Apple Watch, and OpenStreetMap for Amiga. ⌘ Read more

Apple abandons M1 CPU, moves to RISC-V.
“I mean, come on. We’re Apple. Changing CPU architectures is kinda what we do.” ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Aug 20, 2022
Debian, GNOME, Apple I, & John Deere DOOM ⌘ Read more

Apple Police arrest man for “malicious sideloading of DOOM”
If convicted of “Malicious, Intentional Sideloading” he faces life in Apple Prison ™. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s “Revenue Bomb” of the early 1980s
The plan: Develop the same software for every computer platform they could find (including C64, Apple II, and UNIX). ⌘ Read more

Apple workers vote to form tech giant’s first-ever US union
It wasn’t the first time employees at an Apple store had tried to unionise, but it was the first attempt that resulted in a vote. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
Before MS-DOS, Microsoft helped CP/M run on the Apple II. ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can’t let them succeed. ⌘ Read more

Dragons Lair 1 & 2 for Apple IIgs has been released… with source code!
(No need for a LaserDisc. Just 8 floppies.) ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, “Apple’s Cement Overshoes,” about the cynical fuckery of Apple’s sabotage of #RightToRepair, which ensures its devices end up in overseas e-waste landfills rather than being fixed and kept in service.

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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, “Apple’s Cement Overshoes,” about the cynical fuckery of Apple’s sabotage of [#RightT … ⌘ Read more

A thin, flexible 6502 processor has been created!
Like the ones used in the NES, Apple II, and C64… except thin. And flexible. ⌘ Read more

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Two Mac-like desktops for the Apple II, from 1985.
“Quark Catalyst” and “Mouse Desk” (which would later be purchased by Apple). ⌘ Read more

Richard Stallman - “The state of the Free Software movement” - April 13, 2022
Free Software founder has choice words for Ubuntu, Apple. Announces a manual for GNU C. ⌘ Read more

Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977’s West Coast Computer Faire
The introduction of the Apple II and the Commodore PET. ⌘ Read more

Apple Silicon (M1) Mac owners can now say “BTW, I run Arch”
Asahi Linux has released their first alpha version for M1 based Macintosh’s. ⌘ Read more

Apple: From “open hardware” to “rent your computer”
It took 46 years… but Steve Jobs’ dream of computers that you can never own, or work on, is fully here. ⌘ Read more

Remember when Apple built a Mac OS running on top of Solaris and HP-UX? Seriously. It happened.
Macintosh Application Environment for Unix – from back in 1994. ⌘ Read more

Apple M1 Ultra & NUMA - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

AppleWorld 1987 – when the Mac got color and expandability
Steve Jobs was extremely against color screens and expansion bays, but after he was forced out of Apple… they arrived! ⌘ Read more

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Screensaver inspired by Apple’s inbuilt iTunes Screensaver. It can display Artwork by Spotify or last.fm Profile Data.

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Christmas Demos of the 1980s (for C64, Atari, Apple II, DOS, & Amiga)
Christmas demos were a staple of 1980s computer culture. Here are some of the best. ⌘ Read more

10 Stories that Rocked the Tech Industry in 2021
From the Apple App Store to Bill Gates’ poop, it’s been a pretty nutty year. ⌘ Read more

Turbo Rascal : Pascal Compiler & IDE for tons of classic systems
One language for: C64, VIC-20, NES, Gameboy, ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600, 8086AT, Amiga 500, Atari 800, BBC Micro, SNES, Apple II & Atari ST + MORE ⌘ Read more

Faster Multi-Platform Builds: Dockerfile Cross-Compilation Guide
There are some important changes happening in the software industry. With Apple moving all of their machines to their custom ARM-based silicon and AWS offering the best performance-per-cost ratio with their Graviton2 instances, one can no longer expect that all software only needs to run on x86 processors. If you work with containers there is some […]

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683 總之先照這頁指示把這電腦升級至 macOS Catalina…

Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

New, spooky, multi-retro-platform text adventure released!
Apple II, C64, DOS, Linux, Windows… with a community port to Amiga! ⌘ Read more

Now talking about macOS on Apple Silicone, and how the OS takes advantage of what the M1MAX has to offer.

The GPU that comes in the SoC seems incredible, even hard to believe. Apple is doing magic here.

Look at the specs on Apple. Jaw dropping.

Third generation of AirPods. So, new AirPods. Read more at Apple. 😂

New subscription plan for Apple Music: Voice Plan. Available for many countries. Using Siri to access songs. Meh.

Talking about Apple Music and Siri.

Apple Event for 18 October 2021, 10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT begins. Commentary will stream as replies to this twt. I might miss things here and there, as I will also be on a work meeting from 13:00 to 14:00 EDT.

Apple Store online down before today’s event. Less than two hours till it goes live!

@prologic@twtxt.net I am thinking on calling in sick to work. 😂 Every time I order an iPhone, I take the day off on delivery day. On Apple events I normally use my lunch and break times all combined, to watch them.

Apple’s event on Monday is bringing, as always, speculation to the table. One thing most outlets seem to agree is the introduction of an “M1X” chip, thought Apple might call it differently. M1X might also mean, M1(we don’t know what comes after, or next generation). Either way, I would really like to see the return of the 27” iMac, but I will not hold my breath. Nevertheless, Monday is going to be an exciting day for many, including me! 🍎

If I worked for Apple, and had decision making on acquisitions, I would buy Lux, the makers of Halide. I mean, look at this!

“Join us for a special event.” Unleashed 😯

** How to install Uxn on macOS **
Uxn is an esoteric stack-machine with 32 bit instructions. It exists someplace at the intersection of a GameBoy, 6502 ASM, an Apple II, Forth, RetroForth, the z80, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and“what if Nausicaä from Studio Ghibli’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind used a computer?” It is tiny, unlike most anything else around these days, and, once you wrap your head around it, pretty fun.

I won’t go into how to develop for it … ⌘ Read more

I typed in “trenta” (Starbucks for “XL”) into my iPhone and it didn’t recognize it as a real word. Does Apple not understand its primary audience?

You miss Apple livestream tweeting? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU AGAIN FAM

Snikket: Snikket iOS app now publicly released
This is the announcement many people have been waiting for since the project
began!

Opinions are often strong about which is the best mobile operating system.
However, while it varies by region and demographic, wherever you are it’s very
likely that you have Apple users in your life, even if you don’t use one
yourself. We want to ensure that the platform you use (by choice or otherwise)
is not a barrier to secure and decentralized communication wit … ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us.” https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.

Here are the changes in this release:

• Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
  
• Fixed duplication … ⌘ Read more

A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7

I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.

Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more

How does Mail Privacy cloak my location? Does it proxy my e-mail through Apple?

Released: Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon] ⌘ Read more…