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Late Night With Mac Hack 1994

Late Night with MacHack: Mac Tools, Toys & Tales is a 1994 book by Doug Houseman, published by M&T Books (a division of MIS:Press, New York), ISBN 1-55851-395-7. It was sold with a CD-ROM of MacHack software.[1] The Library of Congress record (LCCN 94-22310) gives x, 244 pages; the book's own pages run to 246, and the scan has 257 pages.[2]

MacHack was an annual Macintosh developer conference held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1986, whose Best Hack contest gave rise to the short demonstration programs the book describes. Houseman, who helped run the conference from 1987, tells its history year by year and describes each year's hacks, with codes for System 6 or 7 compatibility, 68040 cache problems, PowerPC, AppleScript or Newton requirements and whether source code is on the CD.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[4]

  • Introduction, p. 1: author's note, what MacHack is, what a hack is, compatibility codes, what is on the CD-ROM
  • Chapter 1: MacHack, The Early Years (1986-1989), p. 9
  • Chapter 2: 1990, System 7 Begins to Gel, p. 33; the 1990 hacks, p. 41
  • Chapter 3: 1991, NetBunny 2½, p. 65; the 1991 hacks, p. 81
  • Chapter 4: 1992, Tornado Hack, p. 111; the 1992 hacks, p. 125
  • Chapter 5: 1993, SegaMac and the PowerPC, p. 157; the 1993 hacks, p. 173
  • Chapter 6: Mozart, Gershwin, and Copland (MacHack '94 and '95), p. 205
  • Appendix A: Hacks by Functional Area, p. 217
  • Appendix B: CD Items that are not Hacks, p. 221
  • Index, p. 239; Afterword, p. 245; How to Use the CD-ROM, p. 246

What this book does not contain

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It is a history of a programming conference and a catalogue of its hacks. It has no service procedures, parts lists, schematics or electrical data for the Macintosh; Apple's repair documentation is in Category:Apple Service Source. The CD-ROM is not included with the scan.

Download: Late_Night_With_Mac_Hack_1994.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ Doug Houseman, Late Night with MacHack: Mac Tools, Toys & Tales (M&T Books, 1994), cover and copyright page (PDF pp. 1, 3). Hosted as File:Late_Night_With_Mac_Hack_1994.pdf.
  2. ↑ Open Library, Late night with MacHack, record OL1097642M (from the Library of Congress MARC record). Retrieved 2026-09-30.
  3. ↑ Houseman, Late Night with MacHack, Introduction, pp. 1-8 (PDF pp. 12-19).
  4. ↑ Houseman, Late Night with MacHack, Table of Contents (PDF pp. 6-11).
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