Macintosh SE software recommendations

sosumi · Mar 15, 2022

I recently set my Macintosh SE back up after not using it for almost a year. I plan to purchase a BMOW Floppy Emulator. Any recommendations on what softwarre to play/use?

dcr · Mar 15, 2022

All I have on mine is FullWrite, WriteNow and FutureBASIC. I thought I had a Star Trek game, but that might be on my Mac Plus.

sosumi · Mar 15, 2022

dcr said:
All I have on mine is FullWrite, WriteNow and FutureBASIC. I thought I had a Star Trek game, but that might be on my Mac Plus.

What is FutureBASIC?

cheesestraws · Mar 15, 2022

HyperCard!

sosumi · Mar 15, 2022

cheesestraws said:
HyperCard!

Of course! I've never made one, but it seems fun

timtiger · Mar 16, 2022

What System do you want to run? 6 or 7?

dcr · Mar 16, 2022

sosumi said:
What is FutureBASIC?

Programming software that was then made by Zedcor.

Here's an old article I found about it: http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.09/09.05/FutureBASIC/index.html

sosumi · Mar 16, 2022

timtiger said:
What System do you want to run? 6 or 7?

Either one. I am currently running system 7.0 because I don't have a way to upgrade or downgrade.

sosumi · Mar 16, 2022

dcr said:
Programming software that was then made by Zedcor.

Here's an old article I found about it: http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.09/09.05/FutureBASIC/index.html

Cool! I'll have to give it a try, since programming applications and possibly games for old Macintosh computers sounds quite fun.

timtiger · Mar 16, 2022

sosumi said:
currently running system 7.0

I‘m happy running 7.1.2 on my se because of way more software options. Although you need to have maxed out RAM…

FutureBasic, HyperCard and Filemaker II are Must-Haves. One of my favorite games is Sokoban - it runs on System 6 as well.

sosumi · Mar 16, 2022

timtiger said:
I‘m happy running 7.1.2 on my se because of way more software options. Although you need to have maxed out RAM…

FutureBasic, HyperCard and Filemaker II are Must-Haves. One of my favorite games is Sokoban - it runs on System 6 as well.

What is Filemaker?

timtiger · Mar 16, 2022

FileMaker is a graphical database tool to create and edit various lists for anything you can think of. I use it for inventory management…

Crutch · Mar 16, 2022

And it’s still sold by Apple … https://www.claris.com/

sosumi · Mar 16, 2022

timtiger said:
FileMaker is a graphical database tool to create and edit various lists for anything you can think of. I use it for inventory management…

Sounds cool.

Macintosh SE software recommendations

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