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Apple Developer CD Codenames (1999)
- dmschulman 8y agoIs there anything out there like this for consumer Apple CDs? I'm talking about demo CDs and other retail media that came packaged with Macintosh computers and accessories from the day. I distinctly remember browsing through an incredible multimedia CD that came packaged with one of the first consumer CDROM drives that Apple put out. In addition to some cheesy video presentations this CD had a bunch of Bloom County comics and some games to boot. I wish I could find my old copy but I think it's been lost to time at this point.
- webwielder2 8y agoHere are some videos featured on the "Multimedia CD-ROM Starter Kit" that came with our Apple CD-ROM drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38FTdo6_eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38FTdo6_eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkVeUejPo6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkVeUejPo6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZegeNXkho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZegeNXkho
- dmschulman 8y agoHmm these are interesting but not quite the Apple CD I'm remembering. When the multimedia application automatically loaded I remember some kind of video feature that included a country music band along with a lot of image and videos included on the disc. Of course this was a long time ago, I might be misremembering some details, but I'm surprised more archives of this kind of thing do not exist. I hope I can find a copy of this CD online someday and relive some of those glossy childhood Mac memories
- jamesfmilne 8y agoI miss the days when the developers at Apple were allowed to express a sense of humour. I've been digging through these old CDs to find the necessary magical incantations for writing an Ethernet driver for the SE/30 10/100Mbit Ethernet card I'm developing. https://www.mactothefuture.org/ https://www.mactothefuture.org/
- joezydeco 8y agoI have an old issue of "Inside Apple" (the developers' newsletter) that was an April Fool's issue. Maybe circa 1989 or so. The entire 15-20 pages or so was entirely devoted to joke articles and parodies. I need to find that again and scan it.
- kalleboo 8y agoPlease do!
- dylan604 8y agoJust yesterday, I was telling a coworker about the history of the Sosumi system sound. [0] And how the crayon color picker had an easter egg where the crayons would start to look worn down as time passed. [1 not a good link, read the comments] After System 8.5, there seems to be a change of the light hearted-ness of the OS. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi [1] http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2006/04/colour_me_picked http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2006/04/colour_me_picked
- jackhack 8y agoNot to mention the "Butt Head Astronomer" product model name! The best part is when the offended astronomer sued Apple for defamation, but was put in the unenviable position to argue he was the "butt head" in question. Even the court decision (in Apple's favor) was hilarious.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoThat astronomer was none other than Carl Sagan. Article covering the snafu in detail: https://www.engadget.com/2014/02/26/when-carl-sagan-sued-apple-twice/ https://www.engadget.com/2014/02/26/when-carl-sagan-sued-app...
- JKCalhoun 8y agoWell, speaking broadly, computers became big business. No longer was it going to be engineers creating the product for engineers.
- glhaynes 8y agoWow - MacKiDo is as much of a blast from the past for me as these codenames are!
- alariccole 8y ago“The Winter of our Disc Content” (January 1992). Brilliant!
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