What fun can I have with MacOS8.1?

[Caius]

Got myself a copy of MacOS 8.1, and installed it under ShapeShifter: picture here

Now, since I'm a Mac newbie, I've got some questions. First and foremost, where can I get software for this thing? I mean things like web browser, pdf reader, and anything else fun and/or useful, really. I'm not looking for warez, mind you.

Seems m68k version of 8.1 is hard finding software for. Not really a surprise, of course.

[Caius]

Flashlab wrote:
Wow you have 8.1 running! For me I couldn't get the update from 8.0 to 8.1 to run.

It took a bit of trial and error. It kept freezing at the end of the update. I tried a few things from the troubleshooting section of the ShapeShifter docs, and I believe it was adding NOCOPYBACK to tool types that eventually got it running.

Thanks for the links so far guys.

[Caius]

It may also be that I checked "Allocate Mac ROM memory first" in the prefs.

[Caius]

persia wrote:
Back in the day Amigas were cheaper than equivalent Macs by a fair amount, so when you could run MacOS it was great.  Nowadays their really isn't much point.  The old Macs didn't even have a command line interface.

Not much point? It's the same point as with any other kind of retro computing: Fun!