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Favorite System 7-era shareware/freeware/essentials? Sources?

Submitted by SpaceBoy on April 30, 2007 - 4:00pm. 680x0 Macs and Lisa

Hi guys,

As you might have read in some of my other postings, I'm slowly resurrecting an upgraded Color Classic, which is currently working well, with 32 megs of RAM, a 2gb external HDD and an external AppleCD 600i drive. I've been transferring files from my MacBook Pro via CD-R (thanks to those that helped me figure out the disc formatting issues!), and I've bought an ethernet card from eBay which should be arriving in a few days - Internet, here I come!

Whenever I get the itch to play around with my old Macs, the 68kMLA, AppleFritter and Jag's House are usually the first places to go for good ideas, so I thought I'd throw out a question (and apologies in advance if this has been covered before):

Where are the best sources for 'classic' Mac software/shareware/freeware? I spent a little while digging around on Google last night, and I found a lot of pages that link to other, (now dead) repositories, but it seems like there must be a few really well-stocked websites or ftp servers that I just didn't stumble across. I'm not saying that I didn't find some cool stuff ("The Mac Garden" is hosting a lot of classic games - I was up waaay too late last night playing Oregon Trail for the first time in years!), but I can't shake the feeling that I'm missing some good leads.

Also, on the same topic, what are some of your "must have" old software picks? While I was stumbling around on Google, I came across the official website of "Cap'n Magneto" and I was blown away - I haven't seen that game since I was a kid! I'll admit now that I'm mostly focused on old games right now, but if you can suggest any particular programs to look for, I'd appreciate it.

I hope this post wasn't too rambling to make sense,

Huxley

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3 suggestions:

Submitted by dvsjr on April 30, 2007 - 4:19pm.

I think Jag's house is THE resource, and has been for years.
http://www.jagshouse.com/

I also rely on macorchard for older mac internet related software, used to be really great but may have moved to newer software without the older stuff still available. But worth a look.
http://www.macorchard.com/
I have also been a hotline user since the very first release, I was into the "scene" back then. You can find a lot of older hotline sites with focus on 68k and Mac OS software. Its a little harder to get set up, but definitely the domain of hard core older mac enthusiasts. Check out this project for a more modern client version: http://www.lorbac.net/

On another note, I can personally recommend keeping an eye out for the Sonnett Presto Plus card for your Color Classic. I bought one years ago, from time to time Sonnett sells one on ebay (so said the tech I bought it from) its really great. Adds Quadra speed, 32 MB ram, and onboard ethernet in one upgrade.
good luck, keep us posted.
dvsjr

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Re: 3 suggestions:

Submitted by SpaceBoy on April 30, 2007 - 4:51pm.

Thanks for the tips - especially the Sonnet Presto Plus idea, which is great! One question about that upgrade - if I find one with the lower-end 68LC040 chip (the one without an FPU), can I swap it for the full-on 68040? Just wondering...

Thanks again,

Huxley

dvsjr wrote:
I think Jag's house is THE resource, and has been for years.
http://www.jagshouse.com/

I also rely on macorchard for older mac internet related software, used to be really great but may have moved to newer software without the older stuff still available. But worth a look.
http://www.macorchard.com/
I have also been a hotline user since the very first release, I was into the "scene" back then. You can find a lot of older hotline sites with focus on 68k and Mac OS software. Its a little harder to get set up, but definitely the domain of hard core older mac enthusiasts. Check out this project for a more modern client version: http://www.lorbac.net/

On another note, I can personally recommend keeping an eye out for the Sonnett Presto Plus card for your Color Classic. I bought one years ago, from time to time Sonnett sells one on ebay (so said the tech I bought it from) its really great. Adds Quadra speed, 32 MB ram, and onboard ethernet in one upgrade.
good luck, keep us posted.
dvsjr

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as for software, ftp://ftp.uu

Submitted by whatthehellswit... on July 13, 2007 - 10:07am.

as for software, ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/mac/info-mac . info-mac arch. very useful.

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