What fun can I have with MacOS8.1?

[Gwion]

No its not freeware mac os 7 is

[Flashlab]

Freeware or not, you can download it for free from the source itself, Apple.

[Sir_Lucas]

I'd say old Mac 68k games.

I've recently managed to run Rebel Assault II on my Amiga.
Not to mention old Lucas Arts adventure games. Believe me, something beautiful. It really runs smoothly.

 :-D

[Martin_Lee]

God, get with the times man, Im running 10.5.1 lmao

I first started on OS8.x and we had Photoshop 4 and alike but Im guessing theyre PPC only?

[bloodline]

Martin_Lee wrote:
God, get with the times man

Oh the irony...  :-P

[odin]

And not even 3.9 on the A1200 :lol:.

[Vulture]

Quite some things never released for miggy, to name most of them:

Apps:
Photoshop 4 with Kai's tools 3+4, MS Office 6, Quark Xpress, Illustrator, Painter 6, Power Goo, Netscape 4

Games:
Marathon 1+2, Warcraft, Alone in the Dark, Civ 2

[Tenacious]

Unfortunately for Mac people, they don't have an all encompassing site like Aminet.  But there are some good sites from which to DL software:

www.pure-mac.com - - I've used this a lot
mac.org
macfreebees.tripod.com

If you can find it, "Reversi-The Eclipse" is the best implimentation of this game I've ever seen and its shareware.

[persia]

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.

[TheMagicM]

yea wasnt that the coolest thing??? W/a decent Amiga you could run some neat apps.. I loved messing w/shapeshifter.

[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!

[Tenacious]

It's funny how one of the greatest draws to Apple products for me is their hardware designs.  Not the chips and such but the cases and ergonomic details.

I just got a Quadra 605 working last night and it's cool!  With the correct monitor and keyboard mated to it, it looks like a prop from a Star Trek movie.  This thing should be exploring space!

I enjoyed setting up the HD and installing OS 7.5.5.  I'm haft tempted to max out the memory.  Now if I could just get a decent optical mouse or trackball.

Another site to add to my list above is Jag's House.  There's lots of great info and links.

[persia]

"Retro" and "Mac user" are oxymorons.  Mac users like to think of themselves as sitting back, having a cup of tea waiting for the cutting edge to come somewhere close to them before they are off again.  Mac users fell that the cutting edge is so last week tuesday...

[Debaser]

@ Group

Yeah- Jag's house: www.jagshouse.com is a great resource of lowend mac stuff.

www.lowendmac.com of course..

then there is the 68K Macintosh Liberation Army (always good for a smile on their forums) www.68kmla.net

[adolescent]

Tenacious wrote:
It's funny how one of the greatest draws to Apple products for me is their hardware designs.  Not the chips and such but the cases and ergonomic details.

Case design like the II (all were just boxes, but the II/IIfx were especially huge!), 20th Anniversary,  and Clamshell iBook?  IMHO, three of the worst looking computers of all time .  

[Invisix]

@Tenacious

Here is a Wikipedia article about the Quadra 605 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Quadra_605  :-D