68kMLA + IE 4.01 + Quadra 950 = Not too bad

[pee-air]

Surfing the 68kMLA forums with Internet Explorer 4.01 on a stock Quadra 950 is surprisingly quick. Rendering the pages is a bit slow, but not as slow as I would have expected. And what it does render, actually looks pretty damn good on this tiny 640 x 480 Apple Color Monitor.

Take a look!

And what lurks under the hood?

A stock 33MHz Quadra 950 with 40 megabytes of RAM and a Seagate 9 gigabyte hard drive. It's running System 7.6.1 with Open Transport 1.3. I like. [] ]'>

 

[gobabushka]

awesome dude! ive started using my umax c500 w/ g3 upgrade. not exactly the same, but it gives me the same feeling when i am using it!

 

[ChristTrekker]

Looking at the wiki might be more "interesting", as it uses CSS fairly heavily.

You could always fire up Netscape 2. I bet that would fly!

 

[MacMan]

I tend to use NetScrape 3.0 on my Quadra 700 and it does an OK job of the 68kMLA pages. Bit slow, same as you mentioned, but perfectly managable. 640x480 is usable with the Forums but I find that 800x600 is better for displaying messages as they don't run off the right hand side of the page so much. However the monitor that's currently connected to my Quadra can only do 640x480.

 

[ChristTrekker]

800x600 is better for displaying messages as they don't run off the right hand side of the page so much.

Something's broken/mal-designed if stuff doesn't wrap correctly. Horizontal scrolling is a pet peeve of mine. There's no reason to design with images/tables wider than 600px. Fluid designs are much better.

 

[aftermac]

800x600 is better for displaying messages as they don't run off the right hand side of the page so much.

Something's broken/mal-designed if stuff doesn't wrap correctly. Horizontal scrolling is a pet peeve of mine. There's no reason to design with images/tables wider than 600px. Fluid designs are much better.

I despise horizontal scrolling as well. I've noticed that certain threads in this forum force me to scroll horizontally on my iBook with 1024x768 resolution. Like this thread for example:

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1534

I believe the culprit is extremely long URL's.

 

[pee-air]

awesome dude! ive started using my umax c500 w/ g3 upgrade. not exactly the same, but it gives me the same feeling when i am using it!

I'm really starting to get back into using System 7 again. I spent the whole day today installing software that will make my Quadra 950 useful in a practical way. I don't think that I'll be doing a whole lot of web surfing with the Quadra, but this machine does just about everything else great.

I have Claris Organizer on here, WordPerfect, AppleWorks 5 (Which actually does the paragraph numbering that I was looking for in another thread. The one word processor I never even thought to check, is the one that does it, and does it well. Just click Format>Paragraph>Legal), Norton Utilities, Transmit, MacSSH, Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicater (This browser flies on the 68k Mac too.) and a whole bunch of other stuff, including the great business simulation game: Capitalism!

I'm going to be using my old 68k Quadras a lot over the winter I think. I'm agoing to max out my VRAM right now. Just for the hell of it. [] ]'>

 

[ChristTrekker]

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1534
I believe the culprit is extremely long URL's.

Ahhh, sure. That's what happens when you just paste the URL in rather than using the URL button on the edit screen.

 

[Quadraman]

Any page that makes heavy use of CSS is going to have problems displaying quickly and correctly on a 68k machine. According to the author of iCab, there are certain things you just can't do on 68k machines or machines running OS versions older than 8.5.

 

[ChristTrekker]

there are certain things you just can't do on 68k machines or machines running OS versions older than 8.5

...without having to code them yourself from scratch, that is.

 

[aftermac]

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1534
I believe the culprit is extremely long URL's.

Ahhh, sure. That's what happens when you just paste the URL in rather than using the URL button on the edit screen.

Well, that clears that up.

 

[benjgvps]

It's pretty much alway the ebay links. In fact it is ebay 99.99%!

 

[ibysel]

would you be interested in selling your Quadra 950 and hard drive, or do you know where I can buy one?

If so, please email me Stephen at action123uron@yahoo.ca

or call me at: 416-929-4604

Thank you.

Surfing the 68kMLA forums with Internet Explorer 4.01 on a stock Quadra 950 is surprisingly quick. Rendering the pages is a bit slow, but not as slow as I would have expected. And what it does render, actually looks pretty damn good on this tiny 640 x 480 Apple Color Monitor.
Take a look!

And what lurks under the hood?

A stock 33MHz Quadra 950 with 40 megabytes of RAM and a Seagate 9 gigabyte hard drive. It's running System 7.6.1 with Open Transport 1.3. I like. [] ]'>