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.

[adolescent]

For browser you can use iCab, Netscape, or Internet Explorer (all old versions).  Not sure about PDF stuff.  I do that in AmigaOS.

Some good links at Gamba's page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/

[monami]

i never found much to run on a real mac with 8.1...

http://www.geocities.com/sosumis_68k_mac/links.html

[Flashlab]

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

Anyway I use System 7.5.5 and run iCab on it. Furthermore some games like Warcraft 1 & 2, Settlers 2 and SimCity2000 for example.

[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.

[spihunter]

The 68k version of Escape Velocity always ran well on my 060 Fusion setup w/ MacOS 8

Not sure where to get it now though?

[odin]

Wasn't 8.5 released as freeware by Apple?

[derringer3]

@odin:

No, even 7.6 not relased as freeware.

[Faerytale]

What fun can I have with MacOS8.1?

Well how how fun could you have with an old hag?  :-D

[beakster2]

It was some funny version before the popular 7.1 that was released for free, like 7.0.1.  I remember downloading from an official Apple FTP site in 1996 I think.

Apple emulation used to be very cool.  I remember using it for alot of internet stuff back when I could actually run relatively up to date browsers in it that didn't exist for Amiga OS.

I even ran Doom and Wolfenstein before they were ported to the Amiga.  Also things like MS Office, Photoshop and Quark Express were popular reasons for using Mac Emulators back then too.

10 years on though its all obsolete so not so useful, but still lots of fun to play with  :-)

[HopperJF]

As far as I'm aware only up to System 6 is freeware

[bloodline]

I have 8.1 running on my MBP... using some emulator, I forget the name right now... surfing the Net with Netscape is a wonderful Retro experience... though probably better than any Amiga browser... ;-)

[Flashlab]

System 7.5.3 has been released for free.

You can download any language Apple released for 7.5.3.

Just use the update to 7.5.5 and you're done.

[Gwion]

No its not freeware mac os 7 is