The YouTube Intro:
"Alice was announced at the launch and featured in the original brochure. The packaging was beautiful. The game disk was enclosed in a small cardboard box designed to look like a finely printed, old fashioned book, complete with an elaborate woodcut on the cover. Since Alice didn't take up the whole disk, Capps including a few other goodies with it, including a font and "Amazing", a fascinating maze generating program that he wrote."



Alice - Through the Looking Glass

Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1998 article by John Rizzo, asking the question, "Should we believe in Apple's third OS strategy in three years?", is originally from Creative Mac.
It begins:
"May is the time of year for flower shows, spring festivals, and Apple's annual New Long-Term Operating System Strategy. Last year, the NeXT-based Rhapsody OS was going to save the company. Before that, it was Copland. Now it's Mac OS X (ten).
This year, we learned that Rhapsody failed. Or rather, Apple failed to convince software developers to rewrite their programs for it. Despite this shortcoming, Rhapsody isn't dead. This fall, you'll be able to buy version 1.0 of the full-featured operating system and install it on your Mac. You just won't be able to buy any software for it. Not to worry, though, says Apple, because by next year you'll have a choice of three operating systems to run on your Mac: Rhapsody, an updated Mac OS 8, and Mac OS X, a new hybrid of the first two."

Read more:
Mac OS X: Leap of Faith