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Grackle68k: a Classic Mac OS Twitter app
It's always nice to own the latest and greatest Apple hardware, but some of us still use vintage machines. I've got a G3 All-In-One on my workbench that displays iFixIt PDFs while I work. I'll admit that I've wanted to tweet from that machine from a dedicated app, and now I can.Grackle68k is a Twitter application for OS 9 through System 6. Yes, System 6! It's quite bare bones and low on bells and whistles, but it works. You'll have to enter your credentials every time you launch Grackle68k unless you're comfortable using ResEdit (if you're using this app, you likely are).
I played with this briefly on ny G3 and had fun. If you've also got a basement full of legacy Macs, give this a try. If only I still had that Powerbook 150...
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jadam said 1:14PM on 11-17-2009
I am restoring a SE/30 to its former glory and concentrating on the networking portion right now. As soon as I get it working, this will be the first app I use.
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crsh said 7:27PM on 11-18-2009
Hopefully you'll have some luck finding a PDS 10Base-T network card for it to alleviate the cumbersome (and slow!) serial Localtalk networking used back in the day.
Martin said 1:21PM on 11-17-2009
That's a fantastic find. Nice write-up :)
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vandil said 1:27PM on 11-17-2009
Sadly, we all know most people will wind up loading this up on a Sheepshaver'd virtual machine, just to try it, and then move on. heh.
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Jon H. said 1:33PM on 11-17-2009
I've actually been wanting something like this for awhile. So happy to see someone finally did it!
Now if only I could get access to the greater Internet in vMac running System 6/7 (anyone know how?)
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Jargon said 6:50PM on 11-17-2009
Totally gonna have to dig up my old Mac Plus from storage :)
I don't even know how I would connect it to an Ethernet cable though
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Matt said 1:44PM on 11-17-2009
Someone needs to make this into a iPhone App. That would be awesome!
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kenfagerdotcom said 1:46PM on 11-17-2009
I have been using it for a while. The developer says he is going to release it open source soon. Here's hoping!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfagerdotcom/3747007662/
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Jeremy Dixon said 2:49PM on 11-17-2009
Aargggh! No Snow Leopard Support
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William G. said 4:22PM on 11-17-2009
Why would one ever use this? haha
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RetroMacCast said 6:45PM on 11-17-2009
Check out our interview with the developer: http://retromaccast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=549173
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oboewan said 6:32PM on 11-18-2009
To put this in perspective for Windows users, System 6 was released around the same time (+/- 1 month or so) as Windows 2.1.
Yes, I said 2.1, not 3.1.
IT'S OLD.
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Jeffrey Bergier said 5:37AM on 11-20-2009
I need a twitter app for NeXTSTEP for my NeXTcube. When is that coming? :-)
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