" Apple reportedly obtained an eight-year license for Applesoft BASIC from Microsoft for a flat fee of $ 21, 000, renewing it in 1985 through an arrangement that gave Microsoft the rights and source code for Apple's Macintosh version of BASIC.

CCL was previously known as OpenMCL, but that name is no longer used, to avoid confusion with the open source version of Macintosh Common Lisp.

A one button version of the mouse was incorporated into the Apple Macintosh but Steve Jobs decided against incorporating the chorded keyset.

Microsoft Windows received a major boost around this time when Aldus PageMaker appeared in a Windows version, having previously run only on Macintosh.

The program's icon in the Apple Macintosh version was a depiction of Kermit the Frog.

Apple included an updated version of the original Macintosh toolbox that allowed existing Mac applications access to the environment without the constraints of Blue Box called Carbon.

The PowerBook 190, released in 1995, bears no resemblance to the rest of the PowerBook 100 series, and is in fact simply a Motorola 68LC040-based version of the PowerBook 5300 ( and the last Macintosh model to utilize a Motorola 68k-family processor ).

* WordPerfect Mac — free program download, hundreds of third-party files and links, support and discussion group for the Macintosh program, both PPC and Intel and any Mac OS version, using the SheepShaver or Basilisk II emulators

On the Macintosh platform, Microsoft released a PowerPC version of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X in 2003, but further development of the software has ceased.

On May 31, 2002, LucasArts and Aspyr Media announced that a Macintosh version of the game would be released.

The Macintosh version was released on November 5, 2002 and the Xbox and GameCube versions were released on November 20 in North America and two days later in Europe.

While the Xbox and GameCube versions also received generally positive reviews ( the Xbox version was described as " truly fantastic " and " the best Star Wars experience on the Xbox " and the GameCube version as " worth spending time with "), their aggregated scores were not as strong as the PC and Macintosh versions '.

A new version that will run on Windows, Macintosh and Linux is in active development.

The first version of QuarkXPress was released in 1987 for the Macintosh.

Some of these games have been ported to the Macintosh by Vetra Games, while an iOS version titled Mr. Karoshi has been published to some mobile platforms by YoYo Games.

One such approach is simply to create multiple versions of the same program in different source trees — in other words, the Windows version of a program might have one set of source code files and the Macintosh version might have another, while a FOSS * nix system might have another.

After release on NeXT ( a version known as " Black Marlin ") attempts were made to port to Windows (" Blue Marlin ") and Macintosh (" Red Marlin ").

After Apple Computer's latest effort to develop a new Macintosh had culminated in the Macintosh II, a new version of the Mac OS had been developed to support it, System 4. 1.

In January 1992 UserLand released version 1. 0 of Frontier, a scripting environment for the Macintosh which included an object database and a scripting language named UserTalk.

Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint ( originally by Forethought ) were actually developed and released first for the Macintosh, and similarly Microsoft Word 1 for Macintosh was the first time a GUI version of that software was introduced on any personal computer platform.

The Macintosh version of Google Earth, software that allows the user to " fly " over the surface of the earth, mapped with high-quality satellite photography and accurate topographical data, has a default position when started up that is centered exactly on the town of Chanute ( specifically, on the corner of Lincoln and Main ).

The commercials featured ex-Windows users discussing their various bad experiences that motivated their own personal switches to Macintosh.

The software was licensed from 3rd party developers Joseph Katz and Mark Barton ( later, SoftVoice, Inc .) and was featured during the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh computer.

After Dark was an early screensaver for the Macintosh platform, and later PC / Windows, which prominently featured whimsical designs such as flying toasters.

Nevertheless, the Classic featured several improvements over the aging Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer.

The Classic featured several improvements over the Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer: it was up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive 3. 5 " floppy disk drive as standard.

Though slower than the 132 MHz Power Macintosh 9500, the first-generation 8500 featured several audio and video ( S-Video and composite video ) in / out ports not found in the 9500.

The first Macintosh to move from ADB was the iMac in 1998, which featured USB in its place.

The Macintosh version featured sound, but no music.

The new extensions featured for the Macintosh II at the time were A / ROSE and Sound Manager.

The IIfx featured specialized high-speed ( 80 ns ) RAM using 64-pin dual-ported SIMMs, at a time when all other Macintosh models used 30-pin SIMMs.

These default specifications arose out of the problems rendering standard fonts in the early display systems of the 1980s, including the IBM-based CGA, EGA, VGA and 8514 displays as well as the Macintosh displays featured in the 128K computer and its successors.

As it is, the Macintosh 128K featured a screen measuring 512 pixels in width by 342 pixels in height, and this corresponded to the width of standard office paper ( 512 px ÷ 72 px / in = 7. 1 in, with a 0. 75 in margin down each side when assuming 8. 5 in × 11 in North American paper size ).

Cubase has existed in three main incarnations — initially Cubase, which featured only MIDI, and which was available on the Atari ST, Macintosh and Windows.

* First compact Macintosh that featured an expansion slot ( SE stood for " System Expansion ").

All future models of the Classic style Macintosh later featured this exact display.

The game was featured in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack and was available as a ported version for the original Macintosh.

Steve Jobs reduced the company's large and confusing product lines immediately after becoming Apple's interim CEO in 1997 ; toward the end of the year, Apple trimmed its line of desktop Macs down to the beige Power Macintosh G3 series, which included the iMac's immediate predecessor, the G3 All-In-One, which featured nearly identical specifications and was sold only to the educational market.

It featured a connection port to attach to a Windows PC or Macintosh, an optional thermal printer and cassette tape backup, 32 kilobytes of memory, an 8 by 16 character black and white LCD, and an expansion slot for accessory cards.

This video featured Sorola as the main actor, used Peter Tchaikovsky's " Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy " as background music, and focused on the lack of games available for the Apple Macintosh computer.

The album was also promoted through a first-of-its-kind interactive multimedia software released for Macintosh computers called Xplora1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World, which featured several music videos from the album.

Power Macintosh 6100 was first introduced in 1994, and featured a 60 MHz ( later 66 MHz ) PowerPC 601 processor.

* This Macintosh, along with some others, was one of the computers featured in the film Jurassic Park ( 1993 ).