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Macintosh

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia II - Adobe Type Manager - Macintosh

The original ATM was created around 1991 for the Apple Macintosh computer platform to scale PostScript Type 1 fonts for the computer monitor, and for printing to non PostScript printers. Mac Type 1 fonts come with screen fonts set to display at certain point sizes only. In Macintosh operating systems prior to Mac OS X, Type 1 fonts set at other sizes would appear jagged on the monitor. ATM allowed Type 1 fonts to appear smooth at any point size, and to print well to non PostScript devices. A couple of ...

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Adobe Type Manager, Adobe Type Manager - Macintosh, Adobe Type Manager - Windows

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Macintosh: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary on BAUCHAN

BAUCHAN: (Buckwan) A less friendly type of brownie. One of the few types who will not leave when seen by the human residents of his home. They mostly stay around just to play tricks, but can be very helpful when the proper mood strikes (i.e. - Callum mor Macintosh had a love, hate relationship with his Baucan companion. The love side must have been stronger because when Callum moved to the states his Bauchan came before him & cleared his plot of land for him.)

 

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia II - System 7 Macintosh - Version History

Soon after the initial release of System 7, the 7.0.1 minor update was released in October 1991. A patch, called "System 7 Tune-Up" also followed, which fixed the "disappearing files" bug in which the system would lose files. See TidBITS #120 [1]. In August 1992, the 7.1 update was released which introduced the Fonts folder, allowing users to organize their fonts in the Finder, this replaced the Font/DA Mover application used in System 6. The first major upgrade was System 7.1.1, also known as System 7 Pro. This release ...

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System 7 Macintosh, System 7 Macintosh - Features, System 7 Macintosh - Software, System 7 Macintosh - Third-party software, System 7 Macintosh - Microsoft Windows Compatibility, System 7 Macintosh - Miscellaneous Info, System 7 Macintosh - Version History, System 7 Macintosh - Available Versions

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia II - Computer role-playing game - Overview

CRPGs, in general, are derivative of paper-and-pencil based role-playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). For example, the vast majority of video-game RPGs assign various attributes to the characters, such as hit points (HP), magic points (MP), and levels. These games also tend to borrow the narrative structure of many paper-and-pencil RPGs; usually a group of heroes (a party) is sent on some sort of quest. Along the way, the adventurers face an endless barrage of enemies and monsters ...

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Computer role-playing game, Computer role-playing game - Overview, Computer role-playing game - Character development, Computer role-playing game - Setting genres, Computer role-playing game - Layout, Computer role-playing game - Combat sequencing, Computer role-playing game - History, Computer role-playing game - Modern games, Computer role-playing game - Cultural differences, Computer role-playing game - Japanese and East Asian, Computer role-playing game - American and other Western, Computer role-playing game - Comparison, Computer role-playing game - Shared characteristics, Computer role-playing game - CRPGs' relationship to PnP RPGs, Computer role-playing game - Variant terminology, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of CRPGs, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of computer RPGs, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of console RPGs, Computer role-playing game - List of companies, Computer role-playing game - Related genres

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Civilization computer game

Civilization is a computer game created by Sid Meier for Microprose in 1991. The game's objective is to develop a great empire from the ground up. The game begins in ancient times and the player attempts to expand and develop their empire through the ages until modern and near-future times. It is generally acknowledged to be a pioneer in the genre of turn-based strategy games. Civilization computer game - Description. Civilization is a single-player game (although there was a separate multipla ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Civilization IV

Europe: November 4, 2005 Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a turn-based strategy computer game. It is the latest installment of the acclaimed Civilization series started by Sid Meier. It was developed by lead designer Soren Johnson under the direction of Meier and his studio Firaxis Games. Civilization 4 was released between October 25 and November 4, 2005 in North America, Europe, and Australia. A Macintosh version is expected in early 2006. Civilization IV - New features. There are many ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Virtual Studio Technology

Refer to Virtual studio for beginning terminology. VST is an acronym for Virtual Studio Technology and simultaneously refers to some versions of the Steinberg Cubase program and to the VST audio software plugin standard. Software synthesizer, Digital audio workstation Virtual Studio Technology - VST plug-ins. VST plug-ins are software modules that can take the form of instruments or effects. Competing technologies include LADSPA and DSSI for Linu ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Office Assistant

The Office Assistant is a feature included in Microsoft Office starting with Office 97, and has been dubbed Clippy or Clippit after its default animated paperclip representation. This feature is an entry point to the application's help system, presenting various search functions based on Bayesian algorithms in versions Office 97-2002 on Windows and 98-2004 on the Macintosh. Starting in Office 2000 Microsoft Agent (.ACS) replaced the earlier Microsoft Bob-descended Actor (.ACT) format as the technology suppo ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Windows 3.0

Windows 3.0 was the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and came out on May 22, 1990. It was the first widely successful version of Windows (see history of Microsoft Windows), enabling Microsoft to compete with Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front. Windows 3.0 - Features. Windows 3.0 succeeded to Windows 2.1x and included a significantly revamped user interface as well as technical improvements to make better use of the memory management capabilities of Intel's 80286 and 80386 proc ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Wizard software

A wizard is an interactive computer program which acts as an interface to lead a user through a complex task, using step-by-step dialogs. One example of a wizard is the Microsoft Windows "Internet Connection Wizard", which sets up a computer's network settings by asking the user for information on how the computer is connected to the Internet. Windows makes frequent use of small rule-based wizards to assist with several configuration tasks. An online airline ticket booking web site is another example of a wizard. In Mac OS X th ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Voices of a Distant Star

Voices of a Distant Star (星の声, ほしのこえ, Hoshi no Koe; translation: "Voice(s) of a Star/Voice(s) of Stars"), (2002) is a 30-minute Japanese anime OAV conceived, directed, and animated by one man, Makoto Shinkai. It chronicles the emotional story of very-long-distance relationship between a girl Mikako and a boy Noboru when Mikako is sent to space and her ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Xerox PARC

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was a flagship research division of the Xerox Corporation, based in Palo Alto, California, USA. It was founded in 1970, and spun out as a separate company in 2002. It is best known for essentially creating the modern personal computer graphical user interface (GUI) paradigm. Xerox PARC - History. PARC's founding director, George Pake, was an outstanding physicist in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance. Dr. Pake had been serving as provost of Washington University in ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - X Window System

CVS  () [+/-] In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces on Unix, Unix-like operating systems, and OpenVMS; and almost all modern operating systems support it. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and keyboard. X does not manda ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a race/class-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the 4th game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. The Warcraft games are set in the eponymous Warcraft Universe, a fantasy setting introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft is set four years after the events at the conclusion of Bl ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is a computer game that is generally regarded as having popularized the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992 for DOS. The game was inspired by the 1980s Muse Software computer games Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple II. It has been ported to many systems, including 3DO, SNES, Game Boy Advance, Acorn Archimedes, and the Apple IIGS.< ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Code page

Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character. Code page - Background. A few code pages use more than 8 bits per character and thus encode more than 256 characters. The term cmap (character map) is used in technical documentation on Macintosh platforms. Although IBM created and maintained many code pages, the term ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Computer role-playing game

List of role-playing games List of publishers Science fiction Fantasy RPG History Computer role-playing Live action role-playing Tabletop role-playing Board games MMORPGs Wargaming Category:Role-playing games Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally uses gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. Modern RPG games encompass a wide range of ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - Cross-platform

A cross-platform (or platform independent) software application or hardware device works on more than just one system platform (e.g. Linux/Unix, Windows, Macintosh). A more rigid interpretation of cross-platform is working on "every" platform meaning on most or on any important platform, only excluding special cases. Most computer languages in their pure sense are cross-platform - as a high-level, human readable way to instruct a CPU that there is no need to depend on any particular operating system. However, to do thing ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - USB flash drive

A USB flash drive is essentially NAND-type flash memory integrated with a USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface used as a small, lightweight, removable data storage device of up to 8 GB (as of 2006). Depending on the drive type and OS version, and in some cases what patches are installed, the drives generally work with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (Windows 98 requires a driver to be installed; often, inconveniently, a specific driver for each type of flash drive), Macintosh, ...

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Macintosh: Encyclopedia - User agent

A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. Web user agents range from web browsers to search engine crawlers ("spiders"), as well as screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities. When Internet users visit a web site, a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the server. This forms part of the HTTP request, prefixed with User-agent: or User-Agent: a ...

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