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7031:
If you have a Mac you have got to try some adventure games on it. Monkey Island had me playing for hours.

ReggieMicheals:
I can tell you right now with the mac that you have linux would not be as pleasant as a modern mac. Mac OS at those times was tightly integrated with the ROM, and even apple's AU/X had to go through Mac OS. If you don't believe me look at some pictures of AU/X on a GIS.

Aloone_Jonez:
Glad to see you're back bedouin.


--- Quote from: bedouin ---You can download System 7.5.5 for free from Apple's web site in their section of obsoleted software; I used floppies. It helps to have another Mac in the process to format the discs as HFS and also uncompress them while maintaining resource forks and other classic irritations.
--- End quote ---

That's great, MS have taken down many sites offering downloads to their old software like Windows 3.1 and luckilly I know somewhere but I don't want to shout about it or break the rules so I won't say in public.

Calum:
excellent! thanks for clearing that up bedouin (and others), yes mine is just the same as yours by the way, a Classic II. It says 15.6MB in disk and 22.7MB available, so that answers that. no downloading tons of mp3s for me then!

my zip drive is now a USB only one sadly. it is a lot faster than my old parallel port one. it used to take literally 45 mins to copy 100MB, compared with, well, not much for the same amount with the USB one.

i will have to look into getting the hub and asante device on ebay then, are there a lot around do you think? (i know, it's just laziness, i could just search now).

On an unrelated note, i believe this is my 6667th post, on the day after 06/06/06. I had this idea the other day that i would get a screenshot of me having had 6666 posts on 06/06/06, but it didn't happen sadly, and now it's one day later, and i am one post too many, so tough titty to me, but there you go.

bedouin, i didn't realise this was your definite first reappearance on these forums so allow me to properly say welcome back as well.

welcome back, you were missed and a place has been kept for you.

Calum:
hey i found this cool webpage. http://www.nd.edu/~jvanderk/sysone/

it's actually about macOS 1, but the author compares it to system 7.5, so for me it makes a lovely starting point for somebody who hasn't used it since about 13 years ago!

also, i keep thinking how cool this mac will be. one of my friends said it wouldn't be good for much, but actually it boots up in 5 seconds and shuts down in 3, so i can have it in my little recording studio (i have a small home recording studio, but no soundproofing, so if i have a computer in there, it must be off when i am recording) and it will allow me to type up setlists, lyrics, lists of what's on each track of each recording etc, and then 3 seconds to shut down and back to recording! i never would have imagined it possible to get a computer so suitable for the studio! also, if it can connect to the internet, then that's 5 seconds to boot up, and then i can check my email! i know some of you no doubt have super streamlined linux systems that can boot in 4 seconds, but mine is a standard fedora core 4 so you know what that means.

no i am happy with my find, and expect it to remain useful for years (decades?) to come!

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