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Stephen Thomas Cole
Apr 11, 2013, 4:24:19 AM4/11/13
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Hello folks. As per subject, I am trying to find Apple diskmags, specific
to the Mac OS, from the late 80s to late 90s era (classic OS). Not had
much luck yet, although I have found that Softdisk published a commercial
entity "SoftDisk for Mac" (originally Diskworld) from 1989 to 1998, which
is why I'm crossposting to the Apple II group as Softdisk had a long
running II diskmag so I'm hoping somewhere there may know where I can
source an archive. Syndicomm seemed to have recently held a licence for
the Softdisk titles, they were certainly selling the II mag archives, but
it looks like they no longer hold that.
I don't know if such ever really existed for Mac OS, but I'd be really
keen to find diskmags of the more homebrew persuasion, demo/warez scene
maybe. I have an interest in Amifa also and there were hundreds of little
bedroom publications for that platform. Would be neat to find same for
Mac!
Cheers!
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Stephen Thomas Cole
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to the Mac OS, from the late 80s to late 90s era (classic OS). Not had
much luck yet, although I have found that Softdisk published a commercial
entity "SoftDisk for Mac" (originally Diskworld) from 1989 to 1998, which
is why I'm crossposting to the Apple II group as Softdisk had a long
running II diskmag so I'm hoping somewhere there may know where I can
source an archive. Syndicomm seemed to have recently held a licence for
the Softdisk titles, they were certainly selling the II mag archives, but
it looks like they no longer hold that.
I don't know if such ever really existed for Mac OS, but I'd be really
keen to find diskmags of the more homebrew persuasion, demo/warez scene
maybe. I have an interest in Amifa also and there were hundreds of little
bedroom publications for that platform. Would be neat to find same for
Mac!
Cheers!
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Stephen Thomas Cole
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Stephen Thomas Cole
Apr 11, 2013, 10:03:55 AM4/11/13
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In article <slrnkmdclr....@mbp55.local>, Lewis
<g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> What exactly do you mean by "diskmag"?
A diskmag was, simply, a magazine on a floppy disk, usually distributed by
BBS or PD houses/cracking teams. For Amiga, C64, Apple II, there were
loads of them and most were 100% homebrew efforts. Perhaps there wasn't a
direct equivalent for Mac OS, but I'd be surprised if there were
absolutely zero similar.
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<g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> What exactly do you mean by "diskmag"?
A diskmag was, simply, a magazine on a floppy disk, usually distributed by
BBS or PD houses/cracking teams. For Amiga, C64, Apple II, there were
loads of them and most were 100% homebrew efforts. Perhaps there wasn't a
direct equivalent for Mac OS, but I'd be surprised if there were
absolutely zero similar.
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Stephen Thomas Cole
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Egan Ford
Apr 13, 2013, 7:09:46 PM4/13/13
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D Finnigan
Apr 14, 2013, 1:32:46 PM4/14/13
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Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> Hello folks. As per subject, I am trying to find Apple diskmags, specific
> to the Mac OS, from the late 80s to late 90s era (classic OS). Not had
> much luck yet, although I have found that Softdisk published a commercial
> entity "SoftDisk for Mac" (originally Diskworld) from 1989 to 1998, which
> is why I'm crossposting to the Apple II group as Softdisk had a long
> running II diskmag so I'm hoping somewhere there may know where I can
> source an archive. Syndicomm seemed to have recently held a licence for
> the Softdisk titles, they were certainly selling the II mag archives, but
> it looks like they no longer hold that.
You might also look for the Macazine. Here are some Usenet articles about
> Hello folks. As per subject, I am trying to find Apple diskmags, specific
> to the Mac OS, from the late 80s to late 90s era (classic OS). Not had
> much luck yet, although I have found that Softdisk published a commercial
> entity "SoftDisk for Mac" (originally Diskworld) from 1989 to 1998, which
> is why I'm crossposting to the Apple II group as Softdisk had a long
> running II diskmag so I'm hoping somewhere there may know where I can
> source an archive. Syndicomm seemed to have recently held a licence for
> the Softdisk titles, they were certainly selling the II mag archives, but
> it looks like they no longer hold that.
it:
http://macgui.com/usenet/search.php?q=macazine
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