> Several Mac computers seemed to have achieved at least modest collector
> status. One sometimes meets up with a Mac user still doing all their work on
> their Mac Plus. But I do not think old Mac computer users have ever become
> the devotees that one finds using Amigas or Commodore 64s. The Commodore 64
> sees far more software and hardware development being done than does the Mac
> Plus.
As a C64 developer, partially it's the fun of working on a totally dissimilar
architecture, but I still write stuff that will run on a Mac Plus too:
http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/ahl/
> This could change though. There seems to be a big group that feels
> disillusioned, disgusted or disenfranchised with OS X and that group may
> have a large enough pool of talent to continue development. Certainly PCI
> PowerMacs have sufficient power and capabilities to handle current needs.
> And if the Commodore 64 can have a graphical web browser, it is hard to even
> imagine a computing task beyond the reaches of our "old" Macs.
As the author of a C64 web browser (see
http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/cwi/hl/
), C64 web browsing still requires a little external support right now. In my
case, I get it from a shell account you connect to which does pre-processing;
in the case of the Wave, the other major C64 browser, it achieves it using an
accelerator and memory expansion cartridge.
Still, these principles work on a Mac Plus too :-)
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