At his personal blog, video game developer and TidBITS Talk contributor Matt Sephton writes:
I am proud to announce that my 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 searching file names (and types and creators) and downloading individual files without grabbing entire disk images.
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