Fat binary versions of programs get more votes from readers in this issue, and we pass on the announcement of the latest After Dark Module Programming Contest in which you don’t even have to be a programmer to compete. Those without expandable Macs may be interested in PowerR’s video solutions, and we look at Farallon’s Timbuktu Pro, which enables you to control a Macintosh remotely over an AppleTalk network, via ARA, or over the Internet.
The quote of the week goes to Bill Gates, who was paraphrased in a MacWEEK article in the 22-Aug-94 issue as saying that no company has produced more titles for Power Macs [than Microsoft]
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Display Card 24AC software is now available for Power Mac users; version 1.2 of the video card driver supports Power Macintosh. Version 1.1 was compatible with Power Macintosh hardware, but ran slowly because it was 680x0 code running in emulation
Joshua Weinberg writes to say that he purchased System 7.5 for $99 last Saturday at CompUSA in New York City. Although he noted that the CompUSA folks said they had gotten System 7.5 in ten days early, it sounds like it will be available for the masses soon
Many people wrote in to comment on my article about fat binaries in TidBITS-240, in the process raising a few issues that I hadn't previously considered.
Peter Lewis notes:
The Umich archive people said they don't want two different versions at , so a fat binary is pretty much the only choice
The deadline for this year's Berkeley Systems After Dark module contest is 14-Oct-94, and the prizes look pretty good. The contest has four categories and only one requires you to know anything about programming.
In the Programming category you must program either a Macintosh module or a Windows module
Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.
By early 1992, there were multiple video output options for the suddenly popular PowerBooks
[Excerpted from Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, 2nd edition.]
As time goes by in the Internet world, software that once ran solely on local area networks such as LocalTalk or Ethernet is migrating to the Internet