So last night I was moving a bunch of programs from my G4 to my new to me 8600 which was tying up the 8600. Since I am using an ADB switch to share the keyboard and mouse with that and my SE/30, it put my SE/30 out of commission as well. Well kinda. I hooked an extra mouse to the SE/30 and fired it up and switched Appletalk to the printer port and attached a printer cable to it. Then I set up Appletalk (or is it Network on Powerbooks?) to use the only port allowed on the Powerbook 165, which is the printer port and plugged it in. Went to Chooser, and logged into the SE/30, and moved a few games onto the 165. The trick to doing this is patience! Serial networking is very slow, but most things that will run on an '030 are pretty small, and the hard drive in my 'book is only a 240 meg.
One of the games I installed was Absolute Solitaire. I think this is the best solitaire game I've ever tried on a Mac, and I think it will run anything. I've run it almost every machine I currently have hooked up, from an SE/30 to the 8600/300. I found this game on Macintosh Garden, and discovered there that I owned a copy of it for nearly 20 years and never used it. It is included in a software bundle called Ten Tons of Fun.
Another go to for me is Mombassa, a Mahjongg game that looks like it might run on a Mac 128k. It's only 39k, and only one file. After I played one short game of this, I realized my file transfers were done and went to shut down the Powerbook. I discovered that Mombassa will not quit on its own, so it prevented the shutdown. I had to go back to the game and quit it. Then I was able to shutdown the machine.
I loaded a few other games to, but haven't tried them out yet. One thing about playing these games was that it seemed to have loosened up the rollers on the trackball a bit. Before it was a bit sticky. Not terrible, just enough to annoy me a bit. A bit of exercise seems to have helped.
I guess the next thing for me to do is hook that localtalk bridge I recently bought so I can hook the powerbook directly into the network, so I don't have to reconfigure the SE/30 everytime I want to move a file.
J White
One of the games I installed was Absolute Solitaire. I think this is the best solitaire game I've ever tried on a Mac, and I think it will run anything. I've run it almost every machine I currently have hooked up, from an SE/30 to the 8600/300. I found this game on Macintosh Garden, and discovered there that I owned a copy of it for nearly 20 years and never used it. It is included in a software bundle called Ten Tons of Fun.
Another go to for me is Mombassa, a Mahjongg game that looks like it might run on a Mac 128k. It's only 39k, and only one file. After I played one short game of this, I realized my file transfers were done and went to shut down the Powerbook. I discovered that Mombassa will not quit on its own, so it prevented the shutdown. I had to go back to the game and quit it. Then I was able to shutdown the machine.
I loaded a few other games to, but haven't tried them out yet. One thing about playing these games was that it seemed to have loosened up the rollers on the trackball a bit. Before it was a bit sticky. Not terrible, just enough to annoy me a bit. A bit of exercise seems to have helped.
I guess the next thing for me to do is hook that localtalk bridge I recently bought so I can hook the powerbook directly into the network, so I don't have to reconfigure the SE/30 everytime I want to move a file.
J White
