Upgrading the RAM and Adding an SSD to the Atari VCS 800
Upgrading the RAM and adding an SSD to your Atari VCS 800 will greatly improve the performance of the entire system, no matter what you plan on doing with it. Even more so if...
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Atari 8-bit Font for Windows and Mac Systems
Steve Boswell has painstakingly recreated classic 8-bit Atari fonts in modern formats, based off fonts originally developed for Windows and Mac systems by Mark Simonson. Steve’s version has over a hundred variations, including for...
Apple IIGS Finder Window Wallpaper/Background
The Apple IIGS was intended to expand on the capabilities of the massively successful Apple IIe by adding enhanced graphics and sound, while also improving the system speed. Central to the project was bringing...
Welcome to Mac OS Boot Screen Wallpaper/Background
In 1997, Apple released System 8 with a considerable makeover for the GUI emphasizing color. Susan Kare updated her famous Welcome to Macintosh boot-up splash screen with another inspired design; the “2-face” Happy Mac....
Classic Mac OS “About Finder” Window Wallpaper/Background
The Finder is the name for the graphic user interface for Macs, used for interacting with files, folders, software applications, etc. It defines the user experience in Mac OS. This downloadable file contains the...
Atari TOS Hard Disk Icon Background/Wallpaper
Representing the hierarchy of disks(volumes), directories, subdirectories, and files, presented a challenge when inventing graphical user interfaces for computers. Today, we’ve settled on the folder/sub-folder/file paradigm for Windows and Macs. Early GUIs had similar,...
Atari “About TOS” Window Screen
In September 1984, Atari sent a team of its best engineers to the offices of Digital Research in Monterey, CA. The teams goal was to port Digital Research’s GEM graphical user interface to Atari’s...
Welcome to Macintosh Screens
After the initial power-on chimes, and after Happy Mac (but not after Sad Mac), and just before the Finder is ready, the original Apple Macintosh computers would greet the user with this simple, and...
