Who still here uses their very old Macs and their softwares?

[Ant]

And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
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[philo]

On 10/29/22 3:02 PM, Ant wrote:
> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

I have a few old Macs that I still use from time to time.

I was once given a Mac older than my laser printer that had the option
to use a standard Ghost Script driver and all be darned, it worked.

[Oregonian Haruspex]

Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

I use my PowerBook for music still.

[Ant]

Making music?
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[CrimsonRE]

Ant wrote:
> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
>

I use a batch of PowerBooks as my daily drivers at home, only resorting
to a Win laptop when absolutely necessary.

TenFourFox and Leopard Webkit/Safari as browsers, save stuff to WebDAV
server. TenFourBird or Apple Mail.app for email, KomPozer for simple
websites, older LibreOffice for all those dratted MS-type docs...

[Ant]

Do they work well with modern stuff?
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[Oregonian Haruspex]

Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Oregonian Haruspex <no_e...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>>>
>>> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
>
>> I use my PowerBook for music still.
>
> Making music?

You bet. Also for making Yamaha VL synthesis patches.

[Liz Tuddenham]

Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?

I'm still using a beige G3 for everyday office work. Claris Works,
PageMaker 6.5, Photoshop LE, Graphic Converter, BBEdit, MacSOUP, Claris
Homepage, PageMill, Claris Emailer. I also use ICab for testing
webpages but have a more modern machine and browser for general internat
browsing.


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[Ant]

Liz Tuddenham <l...@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> > And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?

> I'm still using a beige G3 for everyday office work. Claris Works,
> PageMaker 6.5, Photoshop LE, Graphic Converter, BBEdit, MacSOUP, Claris
> Homepage, PageMill, Claris Emailer. I also use ICab for testing
> webpages but have a more modern machine and browser for general internat
> browsing.

You test to be sure older web browsers work? Good. ;)
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[OldbieOne]

"Ant" <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote in message
news:1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com...

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

Good question. I use a G4 for recording with Pro Tools through a hardware
capture card that's only supported on PPC Macs. I also use Claris on there
sometimes, even though I use a 2006 iMac Duo as a "daily driver" for general
office use, including browsing the web when needed, and also have a current
iMac and custom Windows 95 retro-gaming rig.


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[OldbieOne]

"Oregonian Haruspex" <no_e...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:tkc2gt$3mk6o$2...@dont-email.me...

And they work great still!

[OldbieOne]

"CrimsonRE" <crim...@embarqmail.com> wrote in message
news:tkjqln$kh68$1...@dont-email.me...

Do you make your own TenFourFox builds now it's no longer in development?
I'm curious to see if anyone's been doing that since the code was published?

[Sebastian P.]

In article <1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com>,

a...@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

I do use a Mac Mini G4 running Mac OS 9.2 and a Mac IIci running 7.1.
Both are in almost daily use and I try to do as much as I can on them.
Since I've found my way here now, there's something else I can do from
my IIci :-)

It's a learning curve to find workarounds to "modern" problems - which
is part of the joy of using the real Mac OS in 2023! You have to be
ready to "think differently" doing stuff than what you're used to from a
modern machine. That said, add in a cheap-o Android smartphone for stuff
I can't do on the Macintosh (e.g. Online Banking) and I have my perfect
set-up at home.

Games that I regularly run are Sim City 2000, Glider Pro and Warlords II
- among a few more. Here and there Marathon calls. I also still play the
recently released two boxed adventures Silk Dust and Hibernated I,
haven't been able to beat them yet.

[Christopher Smith]

In article <1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com>,
a...@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

I am still using my iBook G4, using MT-NewsWatcher on OS X 10.4.11 tiger
to post this.

Christopher.

[Knezzen]

In article <1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com>,
a...@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

Yes indeed! My more or less "daily driver" is my PowerBook G4 Titanium
1ghz which dual boots OSX Tiger and Mac OS 9.2.2. I tend to spend most
of my time in 9.2.2 where I can manage my Linux servers using SSHeven, I
browse the web using a combination of Classilla and Lynx together with
Crypto Ancienne to offload TLS. I make music, I edit video, send email
and write posts like this one on usenet. It's still a very capable
machine in todays day and age.

I run together with my friends http://macintoshgarden.org and
http://system7today.com which both is excellent resources for old Macs.

Stay old school ;)

[Denodster]

In article <1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com>,
a...@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)

Typing this on a Macintosh LC III today :).

[André G. Isaak]

I use a relatively modern mac (albeit one that is still considered
obsolete). But I still frequently run system 7.5-9.0 in SheepShaver.
Does that count?

André

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[Denodster]

In article <ullt5o$2pecf$1...@dont-email.me>,

=?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?= <agi...@gm.invalid> wrote:

> On 2023-12-16 20:31, Denodster wrote:
> > In article <1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com>,
> > a...@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >
> >> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?
> >>
> >> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
> >
> > Typing this on a Macintosh LC III today :).
>
> I use a relatively modern mac (albeit one that is still considered
> obsolete). But I still frequently run system 7.5-9.0 in SheepShaver.
> Does that count?
>
> André

No Judgement here. I use SheepShaver for running codewarrior as it builds
much faster than a real machine. Though I feel like I've never gotten
SheepShaver to the same level of stability as a real machine. I wish I
could get it there as I wouldn't mind using it play some online games with
friends who don't own vintage macs.

[Stephen Thomas Cole]

In article <1PGcnbuxT45JG8D-...@earthlink.com>, Ant

<a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> And which hardwares and softwares? Gaming too?

I am still using an old Mac! I am posting this from a Power Mac G4
running OS9. Newsreader is Thoth.

Saw the news about Google Groups dropping Usenet and figured now might
be a good time to get back into newsgroups, and what better way than on
my old Mac. :)

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[Knezzen]

In article <221220231403038752%use...@stephenthomascole.com>,

Sure! Writing this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium in Mac OS 9.2.2 using
MT-NewsWatcher as my Usenet client. I am involved in running two
websites dedicated to vintage Macintoshes as well, Macintosh Garden and
System 7 Today.

Usenet will hopefully outlive us all :)

[scole]

In article <contact-225020...@news.eternal-september.org>,

I might start using MT-NW again, Thoth is proving a little unstable and
has caused a few total system crashes... I'm not sure why, haven't
tried to troubleshoot it, but it seems a bit buggy on this machine.
Which is a shame, it's a really impressive newsreader.

I run vintageapplemac.com, although I haven't done a thing with it in
several years now... I pretty much zoned out on vintage Macs during the
pandemic and am now only just getting back into the hobby. I do intend
to start using my site again, have a couple of neat things I've
acquired that need archiving and then sharing...

> Usenet will hopefully outlive us all :)

Absolutely it will, and with Google Groups and the associated spam
abuse now out of the picture, it will hopefully be healthier for it.

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[James Perih]

in article 050120241712125917%flee...@gmail.com, scole at
flee...@gmail.com wrote on 1/5/24 11:12 AM:

> I run vintageapplemac.com, although I haven't done a thing with it in
> several years now... I pretty much zoned out on vintage Macs during the
> pandemic and am now only just getting back into the hobby. I do intend
> to start using my site again, have a couple of neat things I've
> acquired that need archiving and then sharing...

Could you use an SSL Issuer who is associated with a Certificate Authority
that exists in, and is not expired, on older vintage systems? I found that
Microsoft Azure is one such issuer... there may be others, as well.

Until then, I'll use frogfind.com to browse your content.

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[D Finnigan]

James Perih wrote:
> in article 050120241712125917%flee...@gmail.com, scole at
> flee...@gmail.com wrote on 1/5/24 11:12 AM:
>
>> I run vintageapplemac.com, although I haven't done a thing with it in
>> several years now... I pretty much zoned out on vintage Macs during the
>> pandemic and am now only just getting back into the hobby. I do intend
>> to start using my site again, have a couple of neat things I've
>> acquired that need archiving and then sharing...
>
> Could you use an SSL Issuer who is associated with a Certificate Authority
> that exists in, and is not expired, on older vintage systems?

Add the root certs on your old machine, if you can. Netscape can do it, for
example.

[James Perih]

in article dog_cow-1...@macgui.com, D Finnigan at dog...@macgui.com
wrote on 1/25/24 3:06 PM:

I may need some instructions. I found some Keychain Access instructions,
but... I don't see how I'd import that into Mac OS X 10.2 or older (eg,
Classic).