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The History of SheepShaver: BeOS, PowerPC, and a Second Life for Mac OS

SheepShaver history cover with Christian Bauer’s cycling photo and project imagery

A new BeOS workstation could be exciting and inconvenient at the same time. Christian Bauer had moved from his Amiga 4000 to a BeBox, a machine whose two processors and new operating system appealed to him. That did not make the Mac applications people wanted to use disappear. SheepShaver put a Mac environment inside that other desktop. Its original PowerPC-hosted form could execute guest code on the real processor. After Be’s decline,… Read more

Fallout at 29: The Game That Changed the Wasteland Forever

Fallout Helmet with Caps

A broken water chip, a world full of mutants, and absolutely no guarantee you'd survive long enough to save anybody. Welcome to Fallout. On 10 October 1997, Interplay released Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, introducing PC gamers to a radioactive wasteland unlike anything most of us had experienced before. Set in the year 2161, nearly a century after a devastating nuclear war, Fallout put players in the boots of a… Read more