From: "Chris Sebrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hiya All!
Welcome to the Mac community, Chris! I hope you'll enjoy it.
I'll take a stab at answering as many of your questions as I can, but I want to start by urging you to save up your spare change, tax refund et al and get yourself an eMac (which sell for between $599-899) as soon as you can. Until you've run OS X on a machine that can handle it, you're not really getting the full (glorious!) Mac experience anymore. There's SO MUCH out there that won't be available to you in OS 9, the iTunes Music Store and the iApps just for starters.
I'm not dissing OS 9 really, just pointing out that working in OS 9 is like choosing to stay in the 20th Century, if you get me.
Versiontracker.com and Macupdate.com, among other places. I'd also strongly recommend buying a copy of OS 9.1 or 9.2 on a RETAIL CD, so that you can reinstall if you ever need to. The machine you have can, with a serious upgrade of RAM and probably HD space, run OS X (and could run it quite well with the aforementioned RAM and a Sonnet HARMONi upgrade!), but really I think you'll get more out of your resources as they are sticking with OS 9 until you can get an eMac. There's no comparison between the two experiences.(1) Can anyone recommend websites for Mac OS 9 compatible games/programs/utilities?
I use MT-Newswatcher with an add-on program called yEncTZ (as many binaries are compressed using yEnc these days). Works great.(2) I'd like to find Mac OS 9 compatible Usenet newsgroup software. Especially one that can download binaries (BinHex encoded) from the alt.binaries groups.
There's a much better solution for someone like you called Unison (or iGrabNews, or Bluebeard ...) but they are all OS X only. You'll probably hear me say that again in the course of this post ... :)
(3) Are there any C++ development software that's free (or VERY inexpensive)
for developing
on Mac OS 9?
Start here: <http://macupdate.com/search.php? keywords=c%2B%2B&os=&button.x=15&button.y=12>
There are no CURRENT books on OS 9 APIs that I know of because OS 9 is a "dead" OS now, but there should still be PLENTY of that stuff out there on Ebay or through O'Reilly Books, etc.
A Google or Amazon search on on "Mac OS 9 Programming C++" should bear fruit ...
I'd like to eventually port my usenet software to the Mac, if
I can. (I wrote
Power-Post and Power-Grab, at http://www.CosmicWolf.com - FREE software.)
DUDE!! You are *worshipped* in the PC community, and yes there's a REAL NEED for that stuff ... but in OS X!! :)
(4) Any well-known utility programs that you would consider "must have" for
the iMac?
Can you point me to some? For example, programs like WinZIP [or similar] on
Windows
would be considered a "must have" type of application.. If I understand
correctly, the
corresponding application on Mac OS would be Alladin Systems' Stuffit
Expander. (?)
Exactly right.
As for other suggestions, when I was using OS 9 I thought Action GoMac (a "windows start bar" for Macs) was a must have. For maintenance, I chose DiskWarrior and never EVER regretted it. I found Mac OS Purge useful (Mac OS 9 and earlier do *not* have good memory management, to put it mildly!), MacLinkPlus for translating [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows files ... oh, and TomeViewer for extracting "fresh" copies of individual Apple apps off the system disks when I needed replacements. Did I mention ResEdit? Definitely ResEdit too.
(5) Networking with an otherwise Wndows/PC environment.. I haven't tried
putting it on
my home ethernet network yet, but once I do, how would I go about accessing
the iMac
from windows (or vice-versa). I will use the Mac OS TCP/IP stack to access
the internet,
but is there an easy way to share files with my other Windows machines?
You need DAVE.
I
suppose
I can always run an FTP server on the iMac and access files that way, but is
there any
other sort of networking protocols that I can use?
Again, OS X has this all sorted ... :)
_Chas_
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