How to turn your vintage Mac into a Steam gaming machine using Bazzite
If you have an old iMac from the early 2000s, you can breathe new life into the hardware by turning it into a Steam gaming machine. Here's how.
Chip is a 30-year Apple industry veteran, is author of 18 commercial Mac software products, and is a former Apple and Sony employee. He began hacking away on Apple computers on the Apple II+ in high school in the mid 1980's, then moved on to the Mac in the early 90's. In a previous life he created the game developer audio tools for Playstation 2 at Sony, and worked on the New World OpenFirmware found in late 90's Macs.
If you have an old iMac from the early 2000s, you can breathe new life into the hardware by turning it into a Steam gaming machine. Here's how.
Recent advances in AI and the release of ChatGPT have sparked new interest in AI as a tool. Agentized LLMs are the latest attempt to make highly-specialized AIs, and to avoid them going rogue.
The Apple I was Apple's first-ever computer, and you can try out computing history by emulating it using OpenEmulator. Here's how.
In macOS Ventura you can move your user's Home directory to a larger or faster external drive. Here's how.
The Apple Music app normally stores your media in your user's home folder, but it can consume a lot of space. Here's how to change its location.
Apple's Game Porting ToolKit can be a bit tricky to install onto macOS. Now there's a third-party installer that makes the process much simpler.
You can easily keep tabs on what's running on your Mac and get things running smoothly by using Apple's Activity Monitor. Here's how to get started.
If you happen to be using Terminal, you can get quick system info through it using the uname command. Here's how to use the command line term in macOS.
Homebrew is a macOS package manager that lets users install and manage UNIX tools and 3rd party software. Here's how to get started.
Older MacBook Pros are still a viable option for mobile work in this day and age. Here's how to refurbish a 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2012 and bring it up to scratch.
The Apple Vision Pro will bring an entirely new class of spatial apps to users. Here's how to get started by checking out Apple's sample code.
MetalKit is a high-level framework which makes getting to grips with Metal easier. Here's how to get started using Apple's 3D framework.
Widgets have been around on macOS and iOS for years. Here's how to use Apple's WidgetKit to create your own versions.
Crash reports can lead to clues as to why an app crashed in macOS. Here's how to understand what those reports actually say about your Mac.
While old Apple hardware is mostly long-gone, there are ways to run some of your antique software on your current Mac. Here's how to get started emulating old Apple computers on your new machine.
Error -54 can sometimes appear when you edit your Apple Music Library on your Mac. Here's how to get past the issue and back to listening to your music.
Apple added a few new AI-based selection tools to Photos in iOS 16 and Preview in macOS Ventura that allow you to select a subject of a photo and extract it from the image. Here's how to use them.
Apple's Game Porting Toolkit launch at WWDC offered a way for developers to see how Windows games ran on Apple Silicon before porting it to macOS. Here's how to install and use the toolkit.
Old Macs still have a lot to offer in terms of usage and functionality. Here's how to keep your old Mac minis running like new.
If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them.
For two consecutive years at WWDC, Apple improved Metal, with Metal 3 running on Apple Silicon Macs and on iOS and tvOS devices. Here are the big changes to Metal in the forthcoming iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.
Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers. Here's why.
While Metal is Apple's fast graphics rendering technology for games, MetalFX adds improvements to make it shine on Apple Silicon. Here's how MetalFX works.
Apple released its visionOS SDK and developer tools on Wednesday, along with more info about developing for Apple Vision Pro. Here's an overview of what it is, what it can do, and how to get started.
Apple recently added Multiview for live sports on Apple TV 4K so you can watch multiple games at once. Here's how to use it.
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