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The Macintosh Bible (6th Edition)

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Category:	Mac Info
Year released:	1996
Author:	Jeremy Judson
Publisher:

Download The_Macintosh_Bible_6th_Ed.sit (28.87 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Download Mac_Bible_6_CD-ROM.img (650.09 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Download BMUG_Fall96_PD-ROM.img (632.61 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Emulation
Guides on emulating older applications

Probably the single most useful mac book on the market for classic Mac OS...

A dozen experts contributed to this all-encompassing, beginning- to intermediate-level guide. From system software to hardware purchases, the contributors have painstakingly compiled a guide to the computer family that inspires the most devotion.

Good tips, hot features, bad features, and warnings are marked with appropriate icons, as are sections dealing specifically with PowerBook and Power Macintosh features. Advice ranges from the very basic to the more advanced without sacrificing the easy tone of the writing, making this a volume for all levels.

You'll learn how to configure your Mac to avoid potential conflicts, how to manage real and virtual memory, and how to fix common and unusual problems that remain specific to certain models. The book offers great troubleshooting advice and application overviews. All computer tomes should be required to feature an appendix similar to the one in The Macintosh Bible, which outlines steps to avoid eye irritation, back and neck pain, and other computer-related health issues.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

Requires a pdf reader (such as Acrobat Reader)

Goodies Pack
System Requirements:
Mac Bible 6 CD-ROM: 68020 or better Macintosh w/4 MB RAM or Power Macintosh w/8 MB RAM running System 7 or higher. (Note: some software demos require Power Macintosh and/or 16 MB RAM) • 4 MB of space on your hard drive for the Acrobat Reader software (some individual demos require as much as 24 MB of hard drive space). • 13" (640 x 480) monitor running 256 colors reqomended. (Many items, including the Macintosh Bible Electronic Edition, will work in black-and-white and on a smaller monitor).
BMUG PD-ROM:
Any Macintosh computer running System 6 or 7. • 4 MB RAM reqomended

Comments

by mrdav - 2015, January 4 - 11:20pm

We already have the BMUG item:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/bmug-pd-rom-fall-1996
Maybe just providing this link in the above description is sufficient.

by OZ1SMB - 2015, January 3 - 8:00pm

I found this bible in my basement with the Goodies Pack on 2 CD and yes I will upload.

by PBG4 User - 2014, February 20 - 11:04pm

i would love to see this again —the link with the entire pdf doesn't work anymore

by MikeTomTom - 2010, October 27 - 11:25pm

@mjgleason enquired:

Are there any other classic Mac books available here?

Jargon Its excellent and a "must have" IMHO

by Balrog - 2010, October 27 - 9:32pm

The Art of Computer Game Design (PDF)

by bertyboy - 2010, October 27 - 8:59pm

Not that I know of.
I don't think all the early, really interesting books, ever made it into PDF or similar. Chris Crawford's "The Art of Computer Game Design" is a great read if you like his (great) games. I think he has it to view at his website (use google), think it's called razmatazz.com or something.

by mjgleason - 2010, October 27 - 7:21pm

Are there any other classic Mac books available here? Using the site's search engine for "book" wasn't helpful.

by Vitoarc - 2010, October 25 - 4:52pm

The more questions I've had, the more I'l reach for TMB, only to find a very sparse description or none at all for what I'm searching for. I've downgraded my initial assessment of this from a 5 to a 3, since I think this reference is over-rated and not as good as I had expected.

by MCP - 2010, September 7 - 11:56am

Sorry Mike Garden, the forum format in general makes my eyes bug out, I didn't notice that you found a way to extract the archive. I've never really liked forums no matter who does the designing, though this one is generally better than most. (Actually I like these comments sections better than the newer forums, they're less cluttered.)

One other thing, I noticed that in the "books" section of my archives, there had been a dozen downloads or more of each book, EXCEPT the Mac Bible 6th Ed., which hadn't been downloaded at all during that time. After mentioning it here it's been downloaded, but it makes you wonder just what exactly kind of Bible people thought they were skipping over!

by MCP - 2010, September 7 - 11:47am

I've never heard of anyone having anything but trouble trying to extract anything from anywhere on emulated systems. There's just too much that can go wrong. Only one I've ever used reliably is Compact Pro on Mini vMac.

by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 7 - 11:44am

@MCP: The DL's were fine. MD5 sums also matched and it is much appreciated that you included this. I could not get the parts to extract on a Classic system (albeit they were an emulated Classic system, Basilisk and SheepShaver) with Stuffit Expander 5.5.

No matter, I resolved it as noted in my previous post.

by Protocol 7 - 2010, September 7 - 11:37am

@Mike Not too sure actually. I stripped it down a long time ago to the bare basics (just one .exe and .dll). The about screen doesn't have a version, just a copyright year of 2001. The dll is "Stuffit Engine 5.1" which seems a bit old for 2001. It works great except for .sitx

by MCP - 2010, September 7 - 11:18am

I've tested my segmented archives on actual classic macs using StuffIt Expander 5.5 and 7.0.3 and they all work. The segments need to be in the same directory, and drag-and-drop onto Expander. If it's not working, maybe your download got corrupted, or maybe there's some difference in operating system or extensions. It's a toast image so you can expand it on recent macs or PCs if that's easier.

I've also tested the downloads with md5 checksums and they were fine, though that doesn't mean that each and every download will come off without a hitch.

by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 7 - 3:38am

Protocol 7 mentioned:

"Mike You might need a newer Stuffit. I have an old Windows version on this PC and dropping a .sit.1 file onto it joins them up before extracting."

What version was your Windows Stuffit? I was able to put the 3 parts together on my Quicksilver, running Tiger and an old copy of Stuffit Expander vers. 8. - Kind of ironic for a CD pressed in 1996 when the best/fastest Mac around was probably a 9500/200; Let alone having to DL 4 or 5 hundred MBs of data, just to get a 1 MB file to replace that one faulty file

All is good now though. - On to my next exciting problem

by Vitoarc - 2010, September 6 - 3:54pm

Thanks for the rescue, MCP! I've added an external link with the included Chapter 21.

Cheers!

by Protocol 7 - 2010, September 6 - 3:41pm

@Mike You might need a newer Stuffit. I have an old Windows version on this PC and dropping a .sit.1 file onto it joins them up before extracting.

by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 6 - 2:59pm

MCP said:

"I've even got a disc image of the CD that came with the book"

Thanks, MCP. I've DL'd your mediafire archives, parts .1,.2 &.3 and now need to find something to stitch them together with. Do I need to use Mac OS X and a more recent version of Stuffit Expander? I've already tried to expand these on a Classic Mac OS to no avail (Stuffit Expander 5.5 doesn't want to know about them). I'll have a look at them on an OS X box tomorrow.

Its always good to get an original copy of media if possible, so hopefully I'll be able to make use of your part files. But perhaps all thats needed here (re: TMB-6th-Ed), is that a good PDF copy of Chapter 21 gets uploaded to the Mac Garden and amended to the existing book thats already available here. It would only be a few hundred Kbs in size and the easiest option, IMO.

by MCP - 2010, September 6 - 12:52pm

I've even got a disc image of the CD that came with the book, if anyone's actually paying any attention...

http://www.mediafire.com/?9v2d57f9c5j17

by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 6 - 12:45pm

bertyboy Your copy is Gold

Because it has the "%PDF-1.1" header it is already Acrobat 2 or newer compatible, no need to convert to a version incompatible to users of older Macs. Just upload the chapter and put an [amended] notice and DL link for it into the main description for this book.

What you have is excellent. Many thanks for having it in your possession.

Cheers.

by bertyboy - 2010, September 6 - 12:35pm

Mike Garden, here's the headers in my Chapter 21 ...

%PDF-1.1
%‚„œ”
1 0 obj
[
/CalRGB << /WhitePoint [ 0.9505 1 1.089 ] /Gamma [ 1.8 1.8 1.8 ] /Matrix [ 0.4497 0.2446 0.0252 0.3163 0.672 0.1412 0.1845 0.0833 0.9227 ] >>

]
endobj
2 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 7 0 R
/Resources 4 0 R
/Contents 3 0 R
>>
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Length 12862 /Filter /LZWDecode >>
stream

Unfortunately, Acrobat v7 doesn't allow me to set compatibility with anything earlier than Acrobat v4. My only options are Acrobat v4, v5, v6 or v7.

by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 6 - 12:23pm

This post might be a tad long. My apologies.

bertyboy If you can, would you please drag your copy of chapter 21 onto a plain text editor and report back on what you see? You can use BBEdit (probably TextWrangler) on a Mac, Notepad++ on Windows, or similar. You should see, if your PDF file is "normal" as are the rest of the files in this series, at the beginning of the file headers similar to this:

]
endobj
2 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 10 0 R
/Resources 4 0 R
/Contents 3 0 R
>>
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Length 7440 /Filter /LZWDecode >>
stream

This will be followed by probably lots of compressed postscript:

etc; etc; etc... This compressed postscript should also be inter-dispersed (usually) with more than one instance of similar to this:

etc; etc; etc... In Chapter 21 of the current DL there is none of this. What there is, is possibly compressed postscript only, but I suspect that chapter 21 is simply corrupted and unrecoverable.

bertyboy you asked:

"Are you all using a modern version of Acrobat Reader ?"

I can only answer for me here, but no, my most recent Acrobat is the full version 5.5 (on Windows XP) I could run much newer but I choose not to. I also run version 4.0 on Classic Mac OS. Why 4? Because it can open most PDFs regardless of what version created it (so far) and doesn't complain if the PDF was created by a newer version of Acrobat. If I could find a full copy of vers 4 for Windows I'd likely use that in preference too.

bertyboy you also mentioned:

"I could combine all into a single book, if that's OK, I use Acrobat v7 Pro for work"

It would be great. (a) if you can find the time and (b) It might be preferable or easier, if your copy of chapter 21 has the required "%PDF-1.1" headers to just upload that chapter as the remaining chapters appear to be functional (unless Vitoarc finds another fubar chapter).This is so Mac users with a PPC Classic Mac would be able to access your compilation.

But please keep in mind versions of PDF 1.2 is the most accessible by all users. Even those running 68k Macs.

xy said:

"Look at Mike Garden's comment dated May 3, 2010. He specifically likes the fact that it is PDF version 1.1 compatible."

Quite so. Version a version 1.1 PDF (not the Acrobat program itself) is (almost) the ultimate in backwards compatibility - SSW 6.0.7? Its possible that someone with an ancient Mac has a working copy of Acrobat 1.x or even 2.x (up to vers. 3.x is the only possibility for 68k macs) will really appreciate getting these files.

xy also said:

"You might at least want to make it PDF version 1.4 compatible which is Acrobat 5 (last Classic Mac version). Even better would be PDF version 1.3 compatibility which is Acrobat 4."

I agree, version 1.4 would be really great if all PDFs could be saved to this version type (or earlier for Classic Mac users) and vers. 1.3 would be better if only for the lack of "This document was created on a newer version of Acrobat" fake Acrobat nag dialogs. But for me it would be even better if all PDFs for the Macintosh Garden could be saved in PDF version 1.2 (or earlier) format. Version 1.2 (Acrobat 3. was the last easily accessible PDF format for 68k Macs (and still readable on the newest versions of Acrobat or any other PDF reader).

by MCP - 2010, September 6 - 11:44am

Before anyone else wastes another moment on this, it's been here all along:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qottnzneryd/MacintoshBible6thEd.zip

I took it from my CD-ROM collection ages ago and either combined it into one file using Acrobat 5 on my G3 iMac, or else it was already together. Or not. Can't remember. Should work with just about anything.

Feel free to download it and upload it again here or elsewhere, just don't post my own mirror link anywhere other than these comments; I'm not mirroring anything that is not a game.

My main site is here: http://sites.google.com/site/oldmacarchive/

ADD: I just took a look at what I archived; it's the separate files, and the reason I left them that way is that if you leave them in same folder, the links between the various files work together as a whole. That's exactly the way it came in the first place, and should work with Acrobat Reader 4 and maybe 3 or earlier.

by xy - 2010, September 6 - 9:24am

Look at Mike Garden's comment dated May 3, 2010. He specifically likes the fact that it is PDF version 1.1 compatible. You might at least want to make it PDF version 1.4 compatible which is Acrobat 5 (last Classic Mac version). Even better would be PDF version 1.3 compatibility which is Acrobat 4.

by bertyboy - 2010, September 6 - 8:28am

May just be me and my copy, not sure if I got it from here or not - I doubt it since it's been in my backups since before the site was reborn - but my xhapter 21 opens fine in Acrobat Reader v7 and Preview v2.1.1 (Mac OSX 10.3.9).

Are you all using a modern version of Acrobat Reader ?

I could combine all into a single book, if that's OK, I use Acrobat v7 Pro for work,

by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 6 - 1:30am

Bummer. Chapter 21 is fubar - contains no PDF headers (and possibly no usable data). All of the individual PDF chapters of this book contain the same modification date too, so its been like this for some time I would guess

PDFlab is a great utility (but I don't think it could mend chapter 21).

by Vitoarc - 2010, September 5 - 3:50pm

Note that Chapter 21: Printing (file '21MB6.pdf')is damaged and will not open. I contains zero pages.

For those of you wanting to combine all of the separate PDF's into one file so that searching if fully supported, here's a great little utility to combine the PDF's with OSX:

http://pdflab.en.softonic.com/mac