I believe the site is hosted on an Amazon cloud service.The site does seem to go up and down like a yo yo. I wonder if its hosted on a home connection or something.
DogCow makes a curious claim in that latest blog post:I think that is a new blog post (nice to see!) and his blogs have always had dates that are far into the past. I wonder if he pre-writes them when inspiration strikes then leaks them out slowly over time (if so, good strategy).
OK, I didn't know that "Disk-Based" MacWrite was a different thing to any other 1.x version of MacWrite. MacWrite was used pretty extensively by Computer Science students at the University Of East Anglia, UK (where I studied from '86-'89). We had 512kB Macs, which had plenty of space for all documents and essays (though most of my essays were written on my 128kB Sinclair QL), so it never occurred to me that MacWrite had changed how it managed documents.That’s true about the original version of MacWrite, but “disk-based” MacWrite came out shortly thereafter (1985? I recall it being a free upgrade that we received in the mail maybe?) and solved this problem. Dog Cow’s point was just that it was indeed solvable.
I tested the floppies from my folio-edition Enchanter, Sorcerer, and Infidel (forgot I had that one). The first two disks have gone bad, but Infidel is just as you describe — created 1/1/1904, modified June 1984, and it runs in a normal draggable window and supports desk accessories.@Crutch Combing through 4am’s work and my own collection of Infocom games from this era, the earliest creation date I’ve found is from June 1984. A couple other 1984 titles are dated August and October. Their “Get Info” dialogs in the Finder say either “Mac ZIP” or “Macintosh ZIP” and they all use Toolbox-based menus and windows. They also have Desk Accessories.
I’m going to post something on the Macintosh Garden to see if one of these non-Toolbox-based Infocom games can be uncovered. If they did exist, they probably weren’t around long. I can imagine Steve Jobs putting Infocom’s senior leadership on blast for defying the Macintosh HIG.
Those are the same four folio editions I have! What a coincidence.(I have every Infocom IF game in a box, as well as the earlier folio editions of Witness, Deadline, Enchanter, Sorcerer)