Episode 5: Revisiting The Mac Game Hall of Fame

Feb 6, 2019

Episode 5: Revisiting the Mac Game Hall of Fame

If Every Port Were Perfect, We Wouldn’t Have Marathon.

For our fifth regular show, first we look at a few items of Apple news, including more on bent iPad Pro, minor point pludging, Apple Pay at Target, CarPlay and HomeKit updates form CES, and iTunes and Airplay coming soon to a TV near you. We then begin a new segment on the “HomeKit Chronicles” and in our main topic we fire up the way-back machine and take look at classic mac games of days gone by…did your old favorite make the list? Join us for a trip down memory lane as we revisit the Mac Games Hall of Fame.

Show Notes:

• Bent iPad Pros Redux
• Apple Spends how much on United Airlines?
• CES CarPlay Update
• iTunes Content Coming to Samsung, LG, Vizio and Sony TVs
• Airplay coming to VLC
• Finally a HomeKit Doorbell??
• August Smart Lock
• Old Mac Games at Archive.org
• Marathon
• SimCity 2000
• Crystal Caliburn Pinball
• ICOM Simulations: Deja Vu, Shadowgate, Uninvited
• Myst
• Ambrosia Software
• Stunt Copter
• A-10 Attack
• Happy Weed

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