I have a memory that back before Microsoft stole/appropriated Apple's innovation of a graphic interface for home computers, there were many magicians who preferred to use a Macintosh computer. I'm curious as to whether there are many Café members reading this who are MacMagicians.

I've been using Apple computers since the days of the Apple II series and loved the Apple IIGS. I've used Apple software programs to create videos and DVDs with titles and interactive movies--like my lecture promo video that you should be able to see here:
http://tinyurl.com/sonny-magic-lecture

I used a program a program called HyperStudio on my MacBook to create a video version of a card trick with slates that was published in the old _Science and Mechanics Magic Handbook_. You should be able see the video of that card trick on the IBM Ring 2100 facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/amado.narvaez.1......51989121
I created the trick in HyperStudio and used HyperStudio's "Convert to Video" to make the mpeg video.

----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez

I actually have a MacBook Pro w/ Parallels software running Windows 11 so I can use the Magic Databases that are available. So yes there are some out here that do use Mac....

We've been an all-Macintosh family since I moved from an Atari computer back in the early 1990s.

Mark

Still have a couple of Atari 1040ST with the monitors and software. It was a good little computer. But love all my Macs from the Power PC to mac mini and Imac.

Richard, Do you remember someone named David Small and his little invention called Spectre? It was a little box containing Macintosh 128 ROMs that you plugged into the cartridge port of an Atari ST and it turned the ST into a Mac.

On Genie and CompuServe, I was (for awhile) the product support person for Gadgets by Small, the name of David & Sandy Small's company. Being involved with that was what turned me onto Macintosh in the first place. As the Atari ST market started dying, I switched to a real Mac.

Mark

I think I may still have an ad for the Spectre. I will have to look tomorrow when I am in the short. I started with Atari 800 and then went to 1040. I used a syquest drive for the hard drive. I still have several of them in SCSI and parallel configurations. It was a big deal to have 135 mb cartridge.