Transarctica, Apeiron & Mad Dog McCree. The image of the cover-mounted CD-ROM is available on the page with all of the 1995 MacFormat CD-ROMs here. The CD booklet & inlay covers as well as the CD are there too.The floppy image can be found here. The magazine was scanned on a Kyocera Taskalfa as a JPEG at the highest level. Old Mac specs Disclaimer: All contents found on the Macintosh Repository website is uploaded by fans and is known to be abandonware but if you find copyrighted material on this archive, please let us know and a moderator will remove it. Transarctica From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Transarctica (or Arctic Baron) is a 1993 computer game made by the French company Silmarils for the Amiga and ported to the PC, Atari ST, Macintosh and Atari Falcon.
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It is June 1995 and, if you want a date for when the beleaguer'd years of Apple began, it is now. Apple has already been skimping on the plastics in machines with the Quadra 800 case (Q800, Q840av, PM 8100/xxx). The Clones are coming out every month but they are high-end machines, not the low-end machines they should have been. Low-price PowerMacs (Performa 5200 & 6200) have been announced that begin the directionless proliferation of models until the Second Coming in two years' time. The very use of the name Performa. I was insulted by it back in 1994.
To quote from page 43, The PowerMacs have only been around for about a year but it's already gelling tricky to keep track of all the different models'.
This issue goes into detail about the Power Macintosh. The 3-ish current models (Power Macintoshes 6100, 7100, 8100) and 2 new models (Performa 5200 & 6200) get a page each to themselves. The advantage of RISC over CISC is explained as are other advantages laid out: integrated FPU, the built-in emulator for 68K code and the faster clock speeds.
A useful section for enthusiasts is the section on upgrading to a PowerMac. The following cards are discussed: DayStar Turbo 601, DayStar PowerCard 601, DayStar PowerPro 601 & the Apple Power Macintosh Upgrade Card. There is even a guide to doing it yourself.
I remember the educational aspects of these magazines to be a strong point. This issue has a couple of starter articles on various topics:
a. How to ... Get Into 3D talks all about rendering , what programs you might use and what a guide to jargon.
b. How to ... Desktop Publish discusses type and how it can used from a graphical perspective.
c. How to Play MIDI Files introduces QuickTime 2, Quicktime Musical Instruments & MIDI.
d. How to ... Use HyperCard has a personal organiser to work with as well as tips & tricks.
e. Basics: Screenshots - How to use Flash-It 3.0.2 - a very useful program (although it saves PICTs).
Although not very relevant today (thank God), there are 7 pages on modems. Many people miss the iconic whistling of modems dialling up. I don't. i was so happy when we finally got ADSL at home.
There are many multimedia titles reviewed:
A Cartoon History of the Universe (If anyone has this, would they upload it please)
, A Brief History of Time
, Time-Life Astrology
, Universe
, 3D Dinosaur Adventure
, Zoo-Opolis!
, The Ultimate Haunted House
, Dazzeloids
, Discover India
& Thinkin' Things 2
Games reviewed include:
Super Wing Commander
, Robinson's Requiem
, Transarctica
, Apeiron
& Mad Dog McCree
The image of the cover-mounted CD-ROM is available on the page with all of the 1995 MacFormat CD-ROMs here. The CD booklet & inlay covers as well as the CD are there too.The floppy image can be found here.
The magazine was scanned on a Kyocera Taskalfa as a JPEG at the highest level. The images were manually corrected for straightness with the ruler tool and cut to 3500x3497px. The images were then reduced by batch job in Photoshop CS3 to 1614x1200 at 72dpi. The second PDF was made in Acrobat 8 from these 1614x1200 images, while the first PDF was made from the larger images. The second PDF was set to Acrobat 4. In both bookmarks were set and OCR was applied. The final size of the PDF is 98MB for the second PDF and 463MB for the first PDF.
CompatibilityIf you love the way the macOS Transformation Pack looks but still want to keep using Windows computer, then all you need is the right app.
It's a theme pack that mimics the appearance of macOS, providing you with rich Apple features and plenty of customization settings to personalize your desktop in any way you see fit.
The macOS theme pack includes a login screen, wallpapers, themes, fonts, cursors, icons, sounds, finderbar, dock, spaces, dashboard, and launchpad.
This kit simply transforms the aspect of your operating system in an elegant manner, basically installing a new skin. What should be mentioned is that it does not actually install any Apple-related applications, although some of its shortcuts may indicate this.
Initially, it's necessary to customize some settings and decide how the skin will look like. There aren't too many options available, but you can control some of its aspects, such as the screen corner activation mode, font style, along with the dock and taskbar.
The dock contains shortcuts to some locations on the disk like 'Favorites' and 'My Computer', as well as to some software applications such as the default web browser, text editor and media player. 'Recycle Bin' can be found in the same place.
These shortcuts can be removed while new ones can be added with files, apps, URLs, and so on.
macOS Transformation Pack comes loaded with numerous wallpapers to choose from. It also contains the macOS launchpad that permits you to create pages with numerous files and apps for quick access.
A rich set of configuration options can be altered, and the transformation can be applied to multiple editions of Windows.
All in all, macOS Transformation Pack is a great way to change the look of your operating system, although it needs to work on some bugs and stability issues. Whether you’re a Mac fan and want to have your desktop look the same on your Windows computer, or simply want to try out a new interface, you can try this app.
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