I made an Classic Mac App Store for Macintosh Garden

[amuskens]

Now that it's so easy to get your Mac online with the BlueSCSI v2, I had an idea – a simple App Store for classic Macs which makes use of Macintosh Garden. I built it with retro68 and some assistance from Claude, and it works.

I haven't tested it on a Mac Plus or in System 6, but on my Macintosh Iicx running System 7, it works quite well both with MacTCP and OpenTransport. I think it uses about 2 MB of RAM.

I'm still testing it, but I am happy to hear some feedback! I've attached some disk image files with the latest build.






Source

GitHub - amuskens/retro-app-store

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[iantm]

I'd been stalling on getting any of my Macs online, because part of the intent was actually to stay offline… but for this I may have to give it a go.

 

[Durosity]

This is an amazing concept! I’m excited to try it out when I have some time!

 

[feeef]

Wow, that is a cool app store for our old Macs! Thanks for sharing! I would love to help you out with it (especially with System 6 support). However, I am not familiar with Retro68 and I prefer developing on real hardware, so I will see if I can build it on THINK C.

 

[DW1992]

So awesome!
Well done! Thank you!

 

[adespoton]

Awesome! I notice it doesn't appear to be available on MG itself yet?

 

[amuskens]

No not yet... will post it there soon!

 

[motosega]

This is already amazing, but if you could post screenshots and write reviews in the app then that would be sublime.

 

[greystash]

Awesome! Can't wait to try this