I love Action Retro’s 68k.news, and I’m a daily reader of Google News on my phone. What made you think that approach needed to have an app on OS 9? I saw you took inspiration from the 68k.news site (which I love). With Newsstand, I’ve used my PowerBooks more than my M1 MacBook Air over the last few weeks. The web is pretty limited on Mac OS 9, so I created Newsstand as a way to get a lot more use out of my Macs. While I love playing old games on my Macs, I wish I was able to do more with them. I’m keeping an eye out for a Newton MessagePad and an eMate 300 to add to my collection too. I also have a few generations of iPods and decades of Apple posters and pamphlets. I have six classic Macs: a PowerBook G3 PDQ, a PowerBook G3 Pismo (which I use the most), an iMac G4, a PowerMac G4 Cube, a 12″ PowerBook G4, and a Mac Mini G4. I hadn’t played with those apps in decades, but quarantine and shelter in place allowed me to pick up this hobby again.ĭeveloping for Mac OS is (a) amazing and (b) anochronistic! How much of a classic Mac user are you?ĭeveloping for Mac OS 9 was a great experience, especially using an app like REALbasic, which is what I used to develop Newsstand. My first Mac was a Macintosh Performa 5215CD, and even as a kid I played around with pro-level software like Adobe Photoshop 4 and REALbasic. I’m in my 30s, and I’ve been an Apple fan since I was a kid. I’m Alex Robb, I live in Chicago, and I work for a tech company as an analyst. Tell us about yourself: Who are you, and what do you do? That’s my kind of project, so I reached out to the developer, Alex Robb, about how (and why!) he came up with his Google News reader, Newsstand. I saw an interesting post on Reddit this week: someone had developed an RSS reader for Mac OS 9.
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