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What Do You Do With Your Compact Mac?

But that's only for encrypted sites?

And this doesn't apply to XP if using Firefox? My understanding is that support for these encryption protocols is largely a function of the browser.

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If you like Moria, there is a version of Angband - basically Moria on steroids - that will run on 68k Macs as well. Nethack 3.3.1 is supposed to be the last version that is 68k compatible. I've been meaning to try it out. I find Nethack more challenging then Moria - a lot more quick deaths. 

 
Ha ha! My first exposure to digital porn was on a Macintosh II at the community technical center while a senior in high school. A small vertical window perhaps 50 pixels wide containing the full height of the glorious female form in all her ample glory. A click of the mouse initiated a short dance routine. I remember so distinctly how smooth and life-like the animation was. I have searched, but never have found, the application. Perhaps it's better that way. I'm sure those pixels haven't aged well.

 
looks mine post was deleted, anyway 

joethezombie you are talking about dancer :)

bibilit are you talking about Mike Saenz app, that one is also one of mine favorites of that kind of app on a classic Mac :)

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I've been spending a lot of time lately on sim city 1.4 as well as other old games. One thing I would love to be able to do in it is email that would be awesome.

 
One thing I would love to be able to do in it is email that would be awesome. 
I've been fighting any urge to modernize my classics.  I think it would be great for getting large files onto it but I think id get frustrated w/ a 56k modem.  

 
I've been spending a lot of time lately on sim city 1.4 as well as other old games. One thing I would love to be able to do in it is email that would be awesome.

I've been fighting any urge to modernize my classics.  I think it would be great for getting large files onto it but I think id get frustrated w/ a 56k modem.  
If you can get a shell account on some Unix system somewhere, you can use text-based email there through a terminal program. You just need to figure out how to connect the Mac to the internet or network to access it.

PM member JeanKlos about this. He might be able to hook you up.

 
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One of the primary reasons for me is to run the old World Builder games. Those are still my favorites.

WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor.

And HyperCard!

 
WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor.

The much, much more powerful Nisus Writer 5 actually runs acceptably even on my Classic II (10MB), and is a pleasure to use with Verdana as the screen font (though use of a monospaced font will make it a bit faster). A cut-down version was available, Nisus Compact, that is supposed to work well on something like an SE, but I have never tried it.

Nisus Writer is awesome for text (setting aside graphics and tables); it has the power of a text editor and can do things with words that nothing else in the world of word processors could do then or can do now. At the same time, its editing windows were nicely sized for a Compact's screen. They were also drawn in B&W, so the windows look good on a Compact -- in some ways, in fact, it was the GUI that became the product's downfall as the years went on, because Nisus never really "outgrew" the limitations of the B&W Compact screen. That cannot be said of other products, which somehow don't look as "meant" in 1-bit.

And, for pure text composition, a Compact screen is still pretty much perfect. You want roughly 65 characters per line for optimal typography, which means ease of reading on screen or paper, and a Compact Mac gives you that with room to spare. Who needs a 30" monitor for composition, which is really a line by line exercise?

 
Very interesting. I'll have to look into this word processor. I'm impressed with anything that can do things that can't even be done with modern software.

 
Technight, There are a lot of clever people who made very professional world builder games. There were also some not so great ones, but with the world builder program, anyone could build their own games and release them as shareware or freeware.

Some of my favorites are Swamp witch, you might have heard of Radical Castle, any of the Ray Dunakin games, Ray's maze, mess o' trouble. There are several more.

There are a lot of them available on line. I've tried to find as many as I can since there probably won't be any new ones.

 
Technight, There are a lot of clever people who made very professional world builder games. There were also some not so great ones, but with the world builder program, anyone could build their own games and release them as shareware or freeware.

Some of my favorites are Swamp witch, you might have heard of Radical Castle, any of the Ray Dunakin games, Ray's maze, mess o' trouble. There are several more.

There are a lot of them available on line. I've tried to find as many as I can since there probably won't be any new ones.
Wow I never knew about World Builder! Just watched this video of someone reviewing Radical Castle (

). It's kind of like a poor man's Lucas Arts game. Looks fun!
 
Wow, ive never heard of that stuff either, let alone being able to do that! 

My introduction into computer gaming didnt really happen until around 1996 or so. Before computers, it was NES. 

 
computer gaming ...I remember learning Basic via computer magazines we'd get in the mail.  Each issue would have a few programs you could copy ...usually simple things like creating a waterfall, which wasn't much more than blue colors flashing on the screen with some cool water-like sounds.  However I quickly figured out how Basic worked, and what the variables were for colors and sounds.  Pretty soon me and some other kids in the neighborhood started creating our own programs.  Real simple stuff, but it helped inspire me to become a digital designer as my profession.   Those were good times!

 
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