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Are you Japanese? I’d like to hear about how the Macintosh scene was in the early 1990s.

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I was born in 1991, so there is not much I can say about that period from my own experience.

In the mid to late 90s, my father subscribed to some Mac magazines, which often had a supplemental CD-ROM. It contained a lot of software, including HyperCard stacks, submitted by readers of the magazine. I remember playing with them a lot.

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Thanks! I am British, so my experience of the scene came only from having my own software and games featured in Japanese magazines. At the time I made games for Windows. After that I became a Macintosh fan and eventually worked at Apple for a while. During the COVID pandemic, and since, I collected many Japanese Macintosh Magazine CD-ROM and some 3.5” floppy disks. I shared them all on Internet Archive, and created a searchable database at: https://www.gingerbeardman.com/mmm/ From this collection I’ve recovered many “lost” HyperCard stacks, software and games. It’s a lot of fun! https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/10/30/macintosh-magazine-media/