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Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barel

Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barely load anything. There are still some sites that are designed to work on these old machines like frogfind.com

7thaccount 2y ago
No prob. I guess you just get software on there with CD-ROM & USB? Maybe there is an adapter for the FireWire? Also...what kind of programming language stuff is pre-loaded? I'm not familiar with Macs, but I'm guessing if it's based on BSD than there is a C compiler, Bash, Awk...that kind of stuff? Is Objective C or some kind of scripting language easy to get to?
- WoodenChair 2y ago
  I find a USB stick the most convenient and load some software on CDs. No, Mac OS 9 is not based on BSD. Only Mac OS X+ is. No development tools come with it out of the box (unless you consider AppleScript). Programming for the classic Mac OS is totally different from Mac OS X+. There is the classic Toolbox with Pascal or C, Hypercard, RAD tools like RealBASIC, the slightly refined Carbon APIs, many scripting languages available, etc. But nothing out of the box that's not a separate install. Sorry, it's a big subject and don't want to get more into it here.
  - 7thaccount 2y ago
    Not a problem. This helps a lot!
- bombcar 2y ago
  Since it has Ethernet, you can use older tooling to connect to a Linux server as a "go-between" both for some basic web-proxy and filesharing. Worst case scenario you use an FTP client, but it might be possible to build some other ancient filesharing software like Netatalk - https://netatalk.io https://netatalk.io You of course want to make sure your OS 9 box isn't directly on the Internet, but it's quite capable of communication if what it's talking to drops down.

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Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barel

by WoodenChair 2y ago

7thaccount 2y ago
No prob. I guess you just get software on there with CD-ROM & USB? Maybe there is an adapter for the FireWire? Also...what kind of programming language stuff is pre-loaded? I'm not familiar with Macs, but I'm guessing if it's based on BSD than there is a C compiler, Bash, Awk...that kind of stuff? Is Objective C or some kind of scripting language easy to get to?
- WoodenChair 2y ago
  I find a USB stick the most convenient and load some software on CDs. No, Mac OS 9 is not based on BSD. Only Mac OS X+ is. No development tools come with it out of the box (unless you consider AppleScript). Programming for the classic Mac OS is totally different from Mac OS X+. There is the classic Toolbox with Pascal or C, Hypercard, RAD tools like RealBASIC, the slightly refined Carbon APIs, many scripting languages available, etc. But nothing out of the box that's not a separate install. Sorry, it's a big subject and don't want to get more into it here.
  - 7thaccount 2y ago
    Not a problem. This helps a lot!
- bombcar 2y ago
  Since it has Ethernet, you can use older tooling to connect to a Linux server as a "go-between" both for some basic web-proxy and filesharing. Worst case scenario you use an FTP client, but it might be possible to build some other ancient filesharing software like Netatalk - https://netatalk.io https://netatalk.io You of course want to make sure your OS 9 box isn't directly on the Internet, but it's quite capable of communication if what it's talking to drops down.