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darth-azrael

1y

MacAddict (August 1997)

MacAddict (August 1997)

All of the photos in this set were likely taken circa 1959 and feature locations such as Shiloh, Tennessee, probably Key West, and somewhere in the air...

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darth-azrael

2y

MacAddict (April 1998)

MacAddict (April 1998)

Cover of the April 1998 issue of MacAddict I was never really a Mac person but if I had been, this is the magazine I would have read. It reminds me of boot/Maximum PC on the PC side. Also, Macs make great

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darth-azrael

3y

MacAddict (May 1998)

MacAddict (May 1998)

Cover of the May 1998 issue of MacAddict The best way to describe MacAddict would be to compare it to boot/Maximum PC for the PC. It was a magazine for enthusiasts. If I had been aware of it at the time,

darth-azrael

3y

MacAddict (November 1996)

MacAddict (November 1996)

Cover of the November 1996 issue of MacAddict I was never really a Mac person. Mainly because I always felt they were overpriced and later on I enjoyed building my own PCs anyway. There also weren't as

forykw

3d

PowerUp 💪 October 2026 - The Return of the Rebel Alliance

PowerUp 💪 October 2026 - The Return of the Rebel Alliance

(this is the #54 giveaway enabled post - check the giveaway details below) This 💓 post has a 💎 GIVEAWAY

darth-azrael

4y

MacAddict (March 1997)

MacAddict (March 1997)

Cover of the March 1997 issue of MacAddict MacAddict was very much like a Mac specific version of Maximum PC. I think that it eventually morphed into MacLife but in my opinion it was much, much better

mtl1979

5y

When your PowerPC machine doesn't boot Linux and you need to get the kernel and initrd out of boot partition.

When your PowerPC machine doesn't boot Linux and you need to get the kernel and initrd out of boot partition.

Earlier this week I was trying to install Debian on a old G4 with PowerPC 7400 processor... Obviously I couldn't use the latest Debian release as it doesn't support 32-bit PowerPC... So I downloaded network

darth-azrael

5y

MacAddict (April 1997)

MacAddict (April 1997)

Cover of the April 1997 issue of MacAddict The mid 1990s were a pretty bad time for Apple. Their market share was dropping and for the most part their systems were not price or performance competitive

darth-azrael

5y

MacAddict (June 1999)

MacAddict (June 1999)

There can be do doubt that the late 1990s/early 2000s were the best of times for Apple's Macintosh line. MacAddict was essentially the Macintosh version of Boot (now Maximum PC). It covered Macs with an

memess

14h

Ciao with Hive-engine token, back home with Hive & HBD

Ciao with Hive-engine token, back home with Hive & HBD

During those long years on hive that have been mine, something that i did a lot was to spend my hard earned hive token into various hive-engine token projects which all ended up bad overtime. Graveyard

kryptik.tigrrr3d

6y

Reviving My Power Mac G4 (Mystic/Gigabit Ethernet)

Reviving My Power Mac G4 (Mystic/Gigabit Ethernet)

Return from Oblivion Howdy, fellow Hivers. I am back from oblivion. If you've read my last post I told you that my desktop 3D workstation had died and it would be some time before I would ever make another

darth-azrael

7y

MacAddict (February 1998)

MacAddict (February 1998)

The years MacAddict was around before becoming MacLife overlap with the best years of the Macintosh. Early 1998 was before the iBook and iMac were introduced and things were still a bit of a mess but big

darth-azrael

8y

MacAddict (February 1997)

MacAddict (February 1997)

MacAddict premiered not too long before Steve Jobs returned to Apple and the iMac and iBook were introduced. This led to a relative explosion in Apple's popularity and was the perfect time for an enthusiast

darth-azrael

8y

MacAddict (September 1996)

MacAddict (September 1996)

MacAddict was a magazine for Macintosh computers that was roughly equivalent to something like Maximum PC (called "boot" at the time) for the PC. I was not a big fan of Macintosh computers at

rustedwax

6d

RustedWax Installation and Setup Tutorial

RustedWax Installation and Setup Tutorial

RustedWax is an Open Source, Android media scrobbler that tracks what you actually play on YouTube, YouTube Music, Brave, and Chrome and publishes qualifying scrobbles to Hive. If you dont know what RustedWax

sta99

9y

Linux on a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67Ghz

Linux on a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67Ghz

Started this journey off with Lubuntu 14.04 Linux with little success so decided to download and burn Lubuntu 16.04, after much faffing about with open firmware and various random crashes before even getting

nathanpieters

9y

Fedora on PowerPC mac? Open to suggestions

Fedora on PowerPC mac? Open to suggestions

I am using a PowerPC iMac G5 (1.8ghz) currently with OS X 10.5.8 and a dual boot Lubuntu 14.04.5. This issue I am running into is artifacts on the screen, no sound and no 3d acceleration as the nouveau

darth-azrael

9y

Digital Archaeology – Expedition #5 – iMac G3 266 (Tangerine)

Digital Archaeology – Expedition #5 – iMac G3 266 (Tangerine)

This expedition took me out into the wilds of a community garage sale. It was, in fact, my own community and this is an event in which multiple households sell arcane artifacts of often dubious value out

laniczech

10y

Best Computer Made

Best Computer Made

Best Computer Made

elbowsup

9d

One Leg, One Promise, and a Country That Kept Running

One Leg, One Promise, and a Country That Kept Running

Terry Fox during the Marathon of Hope, 1980. Photo by Jeremy Gilbert, via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). On Sunday, September 20, 2026, thousands of Canadians in nearly 600 communities laced up for

darth-azrael

10y

MacAddict (April 1997)

MacAddict (April 1997)

MacAddict (April 1997)