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Posted by: Byte Knight on 2021-07-06 11:37:37
As I posted on FB, but I'm posting here so it doesn't fade into oblivion...
Somebody posted some fun things to do with your networked-vintage Mac a while back on FaceBook, which I totally stole and have since added to. So if you're that guy, sorry I don't remember your name but thanks for sharing the list! I'm sure there are some things I've missed, so please add to it. Here's the modified list:
1. Visit some BBS’s: Bulleting Board Systems are still very much alive via telnet! Captain's Quarters II (cqbbs.ddns.net:6800) and Classic Mac BBS (macos.retro-os.live:23) are two Mac-oriented BBS's. Get full color ANSI graphics with Z-Term (modem-equipped Mac) or MacSSH (networked Mac). Details on terminal setup at http://cqbbs.ddns.net. You can also find hundreds of BBS's at telnetbbsguide.com.
2. Browse some HOTLINE Servers: There are many of them still online! Download the Hotline client from https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hotline. Sign up at hltracker.com (yep, it still works!) and log into the available servers to find discussion groups, download files, and more.
3. Want to browse the web? Get the Clasilla web browser (https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/) and visit http://theoldnet.com/. Search and download any old Mac software from macintoshgarden.org. Use frogfind.com as a search engine and also for a modern to vintage web page converter. And visit 68k.news for the latest news.
4. Speaking of the latest news, there's a stand-alone Google News RSS reader app called Newsstand for OS 8.1-OS 9 (http://www.getnewsstand.com) that works awesome!
5. Read and participate in NEWSGROUPS: Using Clasilla Mail & Newsgroups Tool, subscribe to the nntp.aioe.org free newsgroup server, search some topics of your interest and have fun discovering the communities!
6. Did you know that Reddit has a static versión that works great under Classilla? Go to http://old.reddit.com/
7. Access Discord from an IRC Client. Yes, it’s possible thanks to a Macintosh Garden proxy. Here’s a step by step guide (https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/official-im-gateway-classic-macs).
8. No Youtube but still want to watch videos on your Mac? Visit http://cornica.org. A very nice Quicktime video library organized by categories.
9. Listen to ONLINE RADIO: http://www.surfmusic.de/ is a Clasilla-friendly online radio directory. Choose any radio, click on “Stand alone player”, download the .m3u file and load it with iTunes. Or patch iTunes to work with Nubango server (https://github.com/Floofies/nubango).
10. Visit the Apple eWorld reboot Applefritter (https://www.applefritter.com/content/welcome-applefritter-bbs).
11. Play the old-school network tank game Bolo over the internet (http://bolo.astrospark.com)!
12. Connect to some Mac remote file servers with System 7.5.5 and above! There's vtools.stenoweb.net (http://vtools.68kmla.org/index.html) and Captain's Quarters file server (cqbbs.ddns.net).
13. Set up an AppleTalk file server for your vintage Macs / modern Macs / Apple IIgs on a Raspberry Pi with netatalk/A2SERVER (http://ivanx.com/a2server/). Highly recommended! Once set up, it's the easist way to get files from your modern Mac to your vintage Mac.
14. Connect to local Windows networks (only if you MUST! 😉 ) using DAVE (http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/thursby-dave-621).
15. Print to a modern printer over your local network (http://bylenga.ddns.net/index.php?page=68KPrinting.php)!
16. Download some warez from FTP sites like macintoshgarden (https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/public-access-file-repository) and macos.retro-os.live (ftp://macos.retro-os.live). |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2021-07-06 11:50:20
You can play with AppleTalk stuff over the 'net as well! bbraun has an AppleTalk VPN thing that you can run over the public Internet |
Posted by: BiggieJohn on 2021-07-06 13:45:51
You can play with AppleTalk stuff over the 'net as well! bbraun has an AppleTalk VPN thing that you can run over the public Internet THANK YOU !! for mentioning this, I vaguely remembered using it years ago, but couldnt remember the details.
link for anyone else interested - https://mac68k.info/wiki/display/mac68k/Mac68k+AppleShare+Server |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2021-07-06 14:11:40
THANK YOU !! for mentioning this, I vaguely remembered using it years ago, but couldnt remember the details.
You're very welcome! It's a great fun thing to play with. |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2021-07-06 14:49:50
You can play with AppleTalk stuff over the 'net as well! bbraun has an AppleTalk VPN thing that you can run over the public Internet Wait - so can you play AppleTalk games over the internet with this or would it be too slow?
And it looks like the mac68k.info AppleShare file server server is no longer up. Or did this morph into the vtools server? |
Posted by: Schmoburger on 2021-07-14 09:03:15
Wow, DAVE is a program I havent seen or heard of in a loooooooooong time, not since I was messing around with PIII's and beige Powermacs in the 2000's. |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2021-07-17 19:45:55
1. Visit some BBS’s: Bulleting Board Systems are still very much alive via telnet! Captain's Quarters II (cqbbs.ddns.net:6800) and Classic Mac BBS (macos.retro-os.live:23) are two Mac-oriented BBS's. Get full color ANSI graphics with Z-Term (modem-equipped Mac) or MacSSH (networked Mac). Details on terminal setup at http://cqbbs.ddns.net. You can also find hundreds of BBS's at telnetbbsguide.com.
2. Browse some HOTLINE Servers: There are many of them still online! Download the Hotline client from https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hotline. Sign up at hltracker.com (yep, it still works!) and log into the available servers to find discussion groups, download files, and more.
3. Want to browse the web? Get the Clasilla web browser (https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/) and visit http://theoldnet.com/. Search and download any old Mac software from macintoshgarden.org. Use frogfind.com as a search engine and also for a modern to vintage web page converter. And visit 68k.news for the latest news.
4. Speaking of the latest news, there's a stand-alone Google News RSS reader app called Newsstand for OS 8.1-OS 9 (http://www.getnewsstand.com) that works awesome!
5. Read and participate in NEWSGROUPS: Using Clasilla Mail & Newsgroups Tool, subscribe to the nntp.aioe.org free newsgroup server, search some topics of your interest and have fun discovering the communities!
6. Did you know that Reddit has a static versión that works great under Classilla? Go to http://old.reddit.com/
7. Access Discord from an IRC Client. Yes, it’s possible thanks to a Macintosh Garden proxy. Here’s a step by step guide (https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/official-im-gateway-classic-macs).
8. No Youtube but still want to watch videos on your Mac? Visit http://cornica.org. A very nice Quicktime video library organized by categories.
9. Listen to ONLINE RADIO: http://www.surfmusic.de/ is a Clasilla-friendly online radio directory. Choose any radio, click on “Stand alone player”, download the .m3u file and load it with iTunes. Or patch iTunes to work with Nubango server (https://github.com/Floofies/nubango).
10. Visit the Apple eWorld reboot Applefritter (https://www.applefritter.com/content/welcome-applefritter-bbs).
11. Play the old-school network tank game Bolo over the internet (http://bolo.astrospark.com)!
12. Connect to some Mac remote file servers with System 7.5.5 and above! There's vtools.stenoweb.net (http://vtools.68kmla.org/index.html) and Captain's Quarters file server (cqbbs.ddns.net).
13. Set up an AppleTalk file server for your vintage Macs / modern Macs / Apple IIgs on a Raspberry Pi with netatalk/A2SERVER (http://ivanx.com/a2server/). Highly recommended! Once set up, it's the easist way to get files from your modern Mac to your vintage Mac.
14. Connect to local Windows networks (only if you MUST! 😉 ) using DAVE (http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/thursby-dave-621).
15. Print to a modern printer over your local network (http://bylenga.ddns.net/index.php?page=68KPrinting.php)!
16. Download some warez from FTP sites like macintoshgarden (https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/public-access-file-repository) and macos.retro-os.live (ftp://macos.retro-os.live).
17. Fire up a Gopher client and get on gopher://gopher.busisoft.net/. Or host your own Gopher server (https://github.com/pgodwin/GopherServer)! |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2021-07-25 21:13:03
Ok, I couldn't get on any Gopher servers so I'm changing #17 to this:
17. Remotely control your vintage Mac from your modern computer with Timbktu! (https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...ent-controlling-se-30-from-macos-sierra.6373/) |
Posted by: aladds on 2021-07-27 07:14:43
6. Did you know that Reddit has a static versión that works great under Classilla? Go to http://old.reddit.com/ I normally use this version of reddit - I never liked their update 😅 |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2021-07-28 11:10:04
18. Connect all your vintage macs together, have friends over, and have an old school LAN party playing Marathon, F/A-18 Hornet, aforementioned Bolo, SuperMazeWars, Spectre, you name it! |
Posted by: Cory5412 on 2021-08-01 19:06:20
As a fun aside, it's interesting to see how much stuff there is to do online on old Macs these days. To be straight-up there's almost more than when these machines were new, even late '90s machines like the iMac.
IRC Client.
My apologies if this is also mentioned but the 68kMLA has its own IRC channel!
Server/network is irc.oshaberi.ne.jp and channel is #68kMLA
12. Connect to some Mac remote file servers with System 7.5.5 and above! There's vtools.stenoweb.net (http://vtools.68kmla.org/index.html) and Captain's Quarters file server (cqbbs.ddns.net).
Thank you for the shout out! vtools was down for a few days (weeks, alas) but should be back now. mac68k.info was bbraun's project if I remember right and is separate, unless he wants to put stuff on vtools. (I haven't asked or anything.) |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2021-09-08 19:00:30
19. Download programs via https with GetDown Classic (https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...-for-macos-classic-7-0-1-through-9-2-2.38934/). |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2022-01-08 06:55:22
20. SSH into modern servers / Raspberry Pi's from your vintage Mac using SSHeven (https://github.com/cy384/ssheven). |
Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2022-01-08 10:35:50
18. Connect all your vintage macs together, have friends over, and have an old school LAN party playing Marathon, F/A-18 Hornet, aforementioned Bolo, SuperMazeWars, Spectre, you name it! There are a lot of LAN games that can be played on old Macs.
There is an Excel spreadsheet on the Macintosh Garden (link below) listing many of the games on LANs of pre-Intel Macs. There is over 200 of them.
It is a zipped Excel 97 file: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/macintosh-network-games-excel-file |
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2022-05-21 08:22:05
Updated a few of these and added a new one. I'm working on the ability to edit my original post.
7. Instant Message with Discord, FaceBook, and Twitter protocols from an IRC Client. Yes, it’s possible thanks to a Macintosh Garden proxy. Here’s a step by step guide (https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/official-im-gateway-classic-macs).
13. Set up an AppleTalk file server for your vintage Macs / modern Macs / Apple IIgs on a Raspberry Pi with A2SERVER (http://ivanx.com/a2server/) or Netatalk v2.x (https://github.com/rdmark/Netatalk-2.x). If you have a RaSCSI, Netatalk v2.x is even easier to install with the easyinstall.sh script (https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI/wiki/AFP-File-Sharing).
15. Print to a modern printer over your local network using TCP/IP printing (http://bylenga.ddns.net/index.php?page=68KPrinting.php) or with CUPS which is built-in to Netatalk 2.x (see above). http://localhost:631 to get to the CUPS printer web interface.
21. Chat with other vintage Mac users on IRC using a client like Wallops (https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/wallops). 68kmla has its own server (server/network irc.oshaberi.ne.jp channel #68kMLA). |
Posted by: mikes-macs on 2022-09-02 11:54:14
Setup NetPrezents and host a Mac site. |
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-02 12:19:54
As well as letting you play MP3 files, mpegdec lets you stream audio over the internet using m3u files. Even on a fast 68k mac. I've listened to internet radio on a Quadra 🙂 Note you need a low bitrate stream.
MpegDec is an MP3 player for 68K Macs. If you have a Quadra, Centris, LC, Performa, or Mac II series Mac, you will want this program. There is even a PPC version for PowerMacs.
www.jwgdesign.com
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Posted by: MindWalker on 2022-09-03 05:57:27
@Phipli - thanks! Just the other day I was wondering if something like this exists. I just tried this on my 68040@20Mhz can play Radio Paralax on lowest settings (and not locking the machine completely), nice! 👍 |
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-09-03 06:08:56
@Phipli - thanks! Just the other day I was wondering if something like this exists. I just tried this on my 68040@20Mhz can play Radio Paralax on lowest settings (and not locking the machine completely), nice! 👍 20MHz?!
That narrows it down a bit. Early Centris 610 I assume 😉 |
Posted by: MindWalker on 2022-09-03 07:19:05
20MHz?!
That narrows it down a bit. Early Centris 610 I assume 😉
That's right! 😀 (Upgraded from LC to a full 040, new one is actually rated 25Mhz but haven't figured out if I could swap the oscillator on board to up it all the way to 25...) |
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