Macintosh Magazine Media: update

Japhy Riddle makes art, music, films, and animations. He’s also a retro technology enthusiast. Naturally, he combines all these skills and interests into wonderful creative output! I follow Japhy on social media and love his high quality videos and animations. Check him out on YouTube! Voxel slugs traversing an invisible cube’s edges A few of...

Some time in 2020 I started collecting CD-ROMs from old Macintosh magazines. Whilst the discs are of Japanese origin—because the supply was plentiful during the extended spring clean of lockdown—they contain a great deal of software from all over the world and a lot of it is therefore in English. They’re an amazing source of old gold: sofware,...

Over the Christmas break I had a spare week after a trip to Ireland was cancelled. What should I do with the time? I was already aware of the upcoming DreamDisc ‘24 game jam and had done some reading a couple of months back scoping out a Lua-based SDK called ANTIRUINS Engine that looked familiar enough to me with my experience of Love2D and...

2024 was a bit of skipped year for me. A lot of time away from working, which was necessary but a process that I find difficult as I’m at my best when I’m creating. Here’s to 2025! Two viral blog posts dwarfed all other writing: Emoji history: the missing years (10 May, 15K views) and Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app (10 Aug,...

Initially I had thought this year wasn’t as good as last year in terms of music, but litening again to the best tracks from 40-something weeks proved otherwise. It was a great year. Most music I was sent by the Apple Music algorithm continued to be Japanese, thanks to my continued deep dive. During the initial playlist curation I was struck by a...