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What Do You Do With Your Compact Mac?
Posted by: Paralel on 2015-12-14 19:32:36 With SHA1 being deprecated on the 1st of Jan, anything older than Vista is probably out of luck.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2015-12-14 19:41:06 But that's only for encrypted sites? And this doesn't apply to XP if using Firefox? My understanding is that support for these encryption protocols is largely a function of the browser. c
Posted by: fimbulvetr on 2015-12-15 06:58:24 If you like Moria, there is a version of Angband - basically Moria on steroids - that will run on 68k Macs as well. Nethack 3.3.1 is supposed to be the last version that is 68k compatible. I've been meaning to try it out. I find Nethack more challenging then Moria - a lot more quick deaths.
Posted by: bibilit on 2015-12-15 08:03:31 no one mentioned porn? Not long ago i found a small program on one of my floppy disks, allowing literally to undress a lady....
Posted by: joethezombie on 2015-12-15 08:43:47 Ha ha! My first exposure to digital porn was on a Macintosh II at the community technical center while a senior in high school. A small vertical window perhaps 50 pixels wide containing the full height of the glorious female form in all her ample glory. A click of the mouse initiated a short dance routine. I remember so distinctly how smooth and life-like the animation was. I have searched, but never have found, the application. Perhaps it's better that way. I'm sure those pixels haven't aged well.
Posted by: slomacuser on 2015-12-15 09:42:00 looks mine post was deleted, anyway joethezombie you are talking about dancer 🙂 bibilit are you talking about Mike Saenz app, that one is also one of mine favorites of that kind of app on a classic Mac 🙂
Posted by: joethezombie on 2015-12-15 11:05:06 Oh my! You've found it!
Posted by: GetTaDaChopa on 2015-12-26 08:18:15 I've been spending a lot of time lately on sim city 1.4 as well as other old games. One thing I would love to be able to do in it is email that would be awesome.
Posted by: eR1c on 2015-12-27 09:30:23 One thing I would love to be able to do in it is email that would be awesome. I've been fighting any urge to modernize my classics. I think it would be great for getting large files onto it but I think id get frustrated w/ a 56k modem.
Posted by: james_w on 2015-12-28 06:34:18 I'm currently building a HyperCard stack we can all use to catalogue our collections 🙂 I've mostly been making it on one of my Quadra 700s but when I was at my folk's place for Christmas I was using one of my PowerBook 100s. Feels fun to use them 'for real'. Anyone interested, find out more here: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/26633-catalogue-your-collection-the-old-school-way/
Posted by: Elfen on 2015-12-28 07:00:24 I've been spending a lot of time lately on sim city 1.4 as well as other old games. One thing I would love to be able to do in it is email that would be awesome. I've been fighting any urge to modernize my classics. I think it would be great for getting large files onto it but I think id get frustrated w/ a 56k modem. If you can get a shell account on some Unix system somewhere, you can use text-based email there through a terminal program. You just need to figure out how to connect the Mac to the internet or network to access it. PM member JeanKlos about this. He might be able to hook you up.
Posted by: mori512k on 2015-12-30 16:20:46 One of the primary reasons for me is to run the old World Builder games. Those are still my favorites. WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor. And HyperCard!
Posted by: techknight on 2015-12-31 04:58:48 One of the primary reasons for me is to run the old World Builder games. Those are still my favorites. WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor. And HyperCard! world builder? what games?
Posted by: beachycove on 2015-12-31 09:33:54 WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor. The much, much more powerful Nisus Writer 5 actually runs acceptably even on my Classic II (10MB), and is a pleasure to use with Verdana as the screen font (though use of a monospaced font will make it a bit faster). A cut-down version was available, Nisus Compact, that is supposed to work well on something like an SE, but I have never tried it. Nisus Writer is awesome for text (setting aside graphics and tables); it has the power of a text editor and can do things with words that nothing else in the world of word processors could do then or can do now. At the same time, its editing windows were nicely sized for a Compact's screen. They were also drawn in B&W, so the windows look good on a Compact -- in some ways, in fact, it was the GUI that became the product's downfall as the years went on, because Nisus never really "outgrew" the limitations of the B&W Compact screen. That cannot be said of other products, which somehow don't look as "meant" in 1-bit. And, for pure text composition, a Compact screen is still pretty much perfect. You want roughly 65 characters per line for optimal typography, which means ease of reading on screen or paper, and a Compact Mac gives you that with room to spare. Who needs a 30" monitor for composition, which is really a line by line exercise?
Posted by: Paralel on 2015-12-31 12:30:24 Very interesting. I'll have to look into this word processor. I'm impressed with anything that can do things that can't even be done with modern software.
Posted by: techknight on 2015-12-31 16:14:55 I used to use Nisus on my SE/30 back in collage, this was in 04/05. Decent stuff.
Posted by: mori512k on 2015-12-31 20:40:01 Technight, There are a lot of clever people who made very professional world builder games. There were also some not so great ones, but with the world builder program, anyone could build their own games and release them as shareware or freeware. Some of my favorites are Swamp witch, you might have heard of Radical Castle, any of the Ray Dunakin games, Ray's maze, mess o' trouble. There are several more. There are a lot of them available on line. I've tried to find as many as I can since there probably won't be any new ones.
Posted by: james_w on 2016-01-01 05:35:29 Technight, There are a lot of clever people who made very professional world builder games. There were also some not so great ones, but with the world builder program, anyone could build their own games and release them as shareware or freeware. Some of my favorites are Swamp witch, you might have heard of Radical Castle, any of the Ray Dunakin games, Ray's maze, mess o' trouble. There are several more. There are a lot of them available on line. I've tried to find as many as I can since there probably won't be any new ones. Wow I never knew about World Builder! Just watched this video of someone reviewing Radical Castle ( ). It's kind of like a poor man's Lucas Arts game. Looks fun!
Posted by: techknight on 2016-01-01 05:50:52 Wow, ive never heard of that stuff either, let alone being able to do that! My introduction into computer gaming didnt really happen until around 1996 or so. Before computers, it was NES.
Posted by: eR1c on 2016-01-05 10:26:42 computer gaming ...I remember learning Basic via computer magazines we'd get in the mail. Each issue would have a few programs you could copy ...usually simple things like creating a waterfall, which wasn't much more than blue colors flashing on the screen with some cool water-like sounds. However I quickly figured out how Basic worked, and what the variables were for colors and sounds. Pretty soon me and some other kids in the neighborhood started creating our own programs. Real simple stuff, but it helped inspire me to become a digital designer as my profession. Those were good times!
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