Update #77 - BIG NEW YEAR'S UPDATE
December 31st, 2025
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026 everybody! As we're entering the new year, it's time to take a step back and look at Cornica. It'll be soon in its 6th year since the resurrection, giving 2000+ Quicktime videos a home on the net. That's quite something, way more than I ever expected it to become.
This wouldn't have been possible without your support, be it a kind comment in the guestbook motivating me to go on, or the uploads & bug reports of one person in particular, Cornica user HolidayPack. Big shout out to you for your amazing support! :-)
That said, the holidays allowed for more free time and hence more uploads and December has seen one of the largest updates to Cornica since its existence. Also, user alexadb uploaded his first video on his Quadra and its modem - may many follow! Anyway, get ready, grab your favorite beverage and enjoy your retro gear! Here's the list of changes:
APPLICATIONS:
Audion
The Voyager Company
Dragster
Soundboard
Startup Doubler
Nine Worlds
Coral Reef! - The Vanishing Undersea World
Dorling Kindersley multimedia CDs
APPLE:
Mac OS X Server
Mac Windows Compatibility
Quadra and its modem
COMMERCIALS
TechRestore - Mini Madness
Quicktime
eBay - Robot
BMW - Angels
Nike - Big Day
Nike - Hardwood
McDonald's - Looney Tunes active
Trident - Goats
Apple TV - School of Rock
Apple TV - Introduction
iPod Touch - The funnest iPod ever
iPod Nano - Chromatic
iPod Nano - Colors
iPod + iTunes - Mi Swing Es Tropical
iPod + iTunes - Paul McCartney
iPod + iTunes - Mary J. Blige
iPhone - Hello
FUN & COMEDY:
DogCow meets System 7
The Animator's Apprentice
Simpsons and Myst
Halo - Wazzup
Kevin James surprise at Night of Too Many Stars
GAMES:
Ares
Quake Malice
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Driver
Diablo III
Carmageddon
Drop Point: Alaska
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
ZPC
Lugaru
Yearn2Learn: Snoopy
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Battle-Girl
Adventure at the Chateau d'Or
Hodj 'n' Podj
Redline
The X-Files Game
The Last Express
Links Pro
Alien Arcade
Star Wars Rebel Assault
Flashback
Gopher Golf
Wolfenstein 3D
Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles Adventure Game
PegLeg
Hoyle Classic Card Games
MOVIES:
Gladiator
Rent
Argo
Elysium
Shaun Of The Dead
RoboCop 3
Godzilla 98
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
See you in 2026 and don't forget - Quicktime N E V E R dies!
New Year gif is from https://www.fg-a.com. Thank You.
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Update #76 - Beware the https
December 2nd, 2025
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Naturally, there is nothing to be afraid of, https is a good thing - if applied properly. And this is where my criticism of it stems from.
Lately, people have been reporting strange things happening when trying to visit & playback videos through https connections on Cornica. From "webserver down" messages to "connection failed".
Please, try to support the open web and connect via http. There is nothing on here that would require end-to-end encryption. (that is, if your browser manufacturer still let's you choose - many will take that decision for you. My advice to those is to hop onto Cornica from retro gear or within emulation.)
On this occasion, I'd like to thank you for your comments in the guestbook. Since I don't do any tracking (as things should be!) it's the only way I get to know whether somebody actually really uses Cornica! (well, that and the uploads folder on our FTP!)
Speaking of using Cornica - what I'd really love to see is more user-generated content. The Mac used to be about creativity for me. I'd be cool to have more of that old spirit on Cornica. Be it user created animations (example) or music video (like this one) or just videos of events (like this record from a concert!).
Please, don't get me wrong! I'm super thankful for anybody uploading movie trailers and commercials, and they will always have a place here. But ultimately I'd love Cornica to be this little creative & uncommercial refuge within the whole dull over-commercialized sales highway they used to call World Wide Web.
Do you think I'm hoping for too much? Feel free to comment in the guestbook or send me an e-mail.
Here is a list of our latest updates:
APPLE
FireWire presentation
Interview with Bob LeVitus
Mac OS 8.6 presentation
Power Mac G4 vs Pentium III - Adobe PhotoShop
COMMERCIALS
Introducing Macintosh Quadra
Quiet
World At Work
GAMES
Colin McRae Rally
Deus Ex
Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary
Multiwinia
Return to Dark Castle
Riddle of the Sphinx II: The Omega Stone
HISTORY
Soviets in Afghanistan
MOVIES
Across The Universe
Face/off
Fantasia 2000
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
SpeedRacer
MOVIES
The Offspring concert in France
SPORTS
NFL 2006 season review
Special thanks to our uploader & bug reporter HolidayPack! Enjoy the videos and always remember - Quicktime n e v e r dies!!
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Update #75 - You say high, I say res!
June 12th, 2025
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For once, most PowerPC versions of new Quicktime movies added (see list below) now enjoy a higher resolution. I've decided to move to higher resolutions, where possible. I've had people outright asking for it, and judging by your guestbook entries it has become obvious that most of you use G3 Macs and faster, rather than the 601 / 603 / 604 CPU powered beige Macs that I had initially set out to support with my PowerPC versions of clips. I hope watching Quicktime videos in 852x355 on your iMac G5 will excite some of you! :-)
Speaking of the guestbook, I've gone through all the entries and moved those older than 2 years to the guestbook archive. Feel free to leave a comment about Cornica, how you use it and what you'd love to see on it. I read every single comment!
Without further ado, here's our changelog for the past two weeks:
COMMERCIALS
Minnesota Millionaire Raffle
Burger King Stackers
HISTORY
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Aristotle
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
MOVIES
Unforgiven
Fargo
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Silence of the Lambs
Dead Ringers
Thor
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Captain America
Kick Ass
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Thanks to uploaders HolidayPack and m68k, enjoy the videos and don't forget - Quicktime never dies!
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Update #74 - New clips and the music category
June 4th, 2025
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Hello fellow Quicktime friends,
lots of new videos have been uploaded with this update, thanks to your generous contributions. Please keep it up!
Before we get to the latest Quicktime additions, a word on our music category. I've been pondering for some time on it's future. No, it isn't going away, but I don't want to spend hours uploading a gazillion of pop music videos which eventually I may have to take down due to copyright. It is a hot topic and I've recently been ..um.. sensibilized.
I don't want to kill the music category though, as I see value in having some retro computing related music videos like It is pitch dark or Cornica user created material like dronecatcher's Hiroshimaz, or a small clip from a live concert, or a documentary. But not your typical music video churned out by Big Corp. record studios.
So please save whatever Britney Spears or Gorillaz video you'd like to keep as they'll be gone soon. They will, however, not be *really* gone as everything uploaded is saved and perhaps I'll spin it off into another project at one point. Or would you be interested in setting up such a spin-off project for Quicktime music videos? Please drop me a line if you are!
Anyway, here come the latest Quicktime clips: (in no particular order)
Apple
Apple Keynote Bloopers
FUN
Butterbeer the Cat's 1st Birthday
GAMES
Diablo II
MOVIE TRAILERS
The Wolfman
Bullitt
Caddyshack
007 - Thunderball
007 - From Russia With Love
007 - Moonraker
007 Spylove
007 - The Man With The Golden Gun
Interstellar
Inception
The Dark Knight Rises
Romeo & Juliet
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Spider-Man
Terminator
TUTORIALS
How to Pick a REAL Vintage Camcorder or Digicam
Thanks everybody for uploading, enjoy the new clips and always remember - Quicktime never dies!
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