We continue to receive reports of problems with the new Mac OS X 10.0.4 update (see previous coverage). In fact, this is the first OS X update where the new problems it causes may outnumber the ...

Basilisk and Sheepshaver have been around for a very long time, and Apple has left them alone. Same with Mini vMac. And they are openly requiring Mac OS ROMS. It's ...

Ten years ago Apple bestowed a new operating system unto the world, Mac OS X. A merger of NeXTStep and the Classic Mac OS, OS X finally delivered Apple’s first major evolution in OS design after a ...

System requirement questions Some readers have raised interesting questions about the recently published system requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). For instance, Apple states that among the ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

Has it really been that long? 24 March 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X. For those of us who were there to witness its release, it’s stunning to think that most of today’s Apple users ...

Call it macOS or OS X if you want, but today Apple’s Mac operating system passed a major milestone: overtaking Apple’s classic Mac OS by a single day. Pointed out by Jason Snell of Six Colors, the ...

Today we’re going to explore the history of the classic Macintosh operating system. MacOS is the modern operating system that powers every Macintosh computer, from the Mac mini to the iMac Pro. But ...

Mac OS X converts looking for some old-style fun may want to turn their attention to Mac software publisher Casady & Greene. The company has announced plans to support Mac OS X with new versions of ...

The first official public version of Mac OS X was launched by Apple on March 24, 2001. It wasn't a success at first, but it powered the Mac through the next 19 years until macOS Big Sur. The fact that ...