This landed at exactly the right time for me. I've just pulled out my 7100/66av power pc from the cupboard to play with. It lacks any modern browser (and probably the power to deal with https) so I resorted to hosting simple http server on my modern computer and downloading things I wanted to there and then going to the mac to download it again.
ndespres•4h ago
If it helps, Macintosh Garden has a FTP server, but everything is un-organized in one of 2 folders, apps and games. Too slow to get a directory listing on these older systems but you can get a file directly if you know what you’re looking for.
duskwuff•3h ago
> It lacks any modern browser (and probably the power to deal with https)
It should be able to run Netscape 4, but HTTPS will indeed be an issue - less because of speed, more because a browser that old will lack support for modern cipher suites.
Also: gopher://magical.fish has tons of services, among gopher://sdf.org
for phlogs and gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn for a big directory.
And, by connecting to the public servers of http://bitlbee.org with any IRC client you can access modern IRC+TLS servers and a good chunk of protocols too (Discord, Mastodon, Steam, Jabber, Linc, Facebook chat, Telegram....)
I just discovered this 2 weeks ago when I missed mac OS 9 so much compared to modern macOS I wanted to see how far I would get. The answer is, there is promising progress on TLS 1.2 but it’s not there yet.
ndespres•5h ago
Very cool and much needed. I run an iMac G3 on OS 9, and it’s a bit of a challenge to download files on because most websites don’t work, and the FTP directory listings on Macintosh Garden are so long that they never finish loading for me. Granted it’s nothing compared to the file transfer difficulties of the past, but it’s nice to see a period-correct workaround.
anthk•1h ago
I can post a text file of apps and games if you want, or a directory
with txt files split by letters.
orena•1h ago
Although very cool, I lack the emotional context to understand why ppl work on it, what is the motivation that drives them ?
Not trying to offend, just trying to understand
anthk•1h ago
Macintosh Garden over gopher and FTP:
gopher://phytocodex.porcupine.club/1
ftp://repo1.macintoshgarden.org/Garden/
login info (user/pass):
gopher://phytocodex.porcupine.club/0/ftpserver.txt
roygbiv2•5h ago
ndespres•4h ago
duskwuff•3h ago
It should be able to run Netscape 4, but HTTPS will indeed be an issue - less because of speed, more because a browser that old will lack support for modern cipher suites.
wanderingjew•2h ago
https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/MacSSL.html
anthk•1h ago
Also: gopher://magical.fish has tons of services, among gopher://sdf.org for phlogs and gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn for a big directory.
And, by connecting to the public servers of http://bitlbee.org with any IRC client you can access modern IRC+TLS servers and a good chunk of protocols too (Discord, Mastodon, Steam, Jabber, Linc, Facebook chat, Telegram....)
geerlingguy•1h ago
http://frogfind.com
roygbiv2•1h ago