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             Macintosh Magazine Media Project Hits 1 Million Files

   Adam Engst

   At his personal blog, video game developer and TidBITS Talk contributor
   [1]Matt Sephton writes:

     I am proud to announce that my [2]Macintosh Magazine Media project
     has surpassed my self-imposed goal of 1 million files, an
     achievement that fills me with both immense satisfaction and slight
     bewilderment.

   Sephton's project preserves media from Japanese Macintosh magazines
   published between 1991 and 2002, capturing a period when software
   distribution primarily occurred via physical media. (The software comes
   from around the world, so a lot of it is in English.) His collection
   now contains over 1 million files across 500 CDs, offering a
   fascinating glimpse into early Mac software development and
   distribution. What makes this collection particularly valuable is its
   preservation of both mainstream commercial software demos and numerous
   small utilities and games that might otherwise have been lost forever.
   The entire collection is searchable and freely available through the
   Internet Archive, with additional tools for[3]searching file names(and
   types and creators) and[4]downloading individual fileswithout grabbing
   entire disk images.

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References

   1. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/28/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files/
   2. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/10/30/macintosh-magazine-media/
   3. https://www.gingerbeardman.com/mmm/
   4. https://discmaster.textfiles.com/
   5. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/28/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files/

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