Computer Links
Macintosh, the Internet, Games, Utilities, and more...
Macintosh Links
First off, let's be honest...you really don't need a link to the Apple webpage, because, frankly, if you can't figure that one out, sorry. Besides, when was the last time you found anything really useful there? Here are some actually practical Mac links:
- ChezMark's MacPicks: Weekly reviews of the best in Mac shareware.
- emulation.net: Emulators for various computer and game systems. And on that note...
- Apple II disk images (FTP): Just 'cause I'm a not-so-old softie...our first computer was an Apple IIe. This FTP site contains all sorts of Apple II images...reminisce and play those old games again (obviously, you'll need an emulator as well).
- INFO-MAC HyperArchive ROOT: Best place to look for Mac software of any kind.
- Apple Lisa Webpage: Apple's huge, expensive flop, next to the Apple III...the first home computer to use a true GUI. This eventually lead to the Macintosh line. Visit this page to learn your computer ancestry. And while on this subject...
- Obsolete Computer Museum: More than just those old Apples and ancient Macs...pretty much all of the old-time home computer systems are represented here.
Internet and related programs
Now that's a typeful...well, you'll see what I mean...
- Computer Virus Myths home page: Learn the truth about computer virii, find out what's real and what's not. Visit here, please, if only so that you won't pass on those annoying virus warning e-mails.
- The HTML Writers Guild: Free to join (well, for Basic Membership), and they have a good deal of resources available for members. Well, I'm assuming. I pretty much locked down all my regular resources before I joined. Hey, I get to put that cool logo on my page at any rate...
- ANONYMOUS SURFING: For all of you paranoid types...start here if you want to surf the web without anyone knowing who you are. Of course, unless you join (and pay), you have to use the public re-router, which can really slow things down. And at this point, I'd like to say that I am not including the types of links you'd be using this for anywhere on this page. Sorry.
- Remailers: Continuing on our naughtiness detour, go here if you want to remail a message so that they don't know it's from you. Again, for those that might want to protect their identity...
- The Official Ircle Homepage: IMHO, the best Mac IRC client. And, hey, you wanna join me on IRC?
Since the demise of the WWFIN, I can now be found on DALnet, as Notbob (of course), and occasionally secretly lurking around EFnet (not as Notbob...if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret, would it? sheesh!). Ya want some servers?
- us.dal.net
- irc.dal.net
- vancouver.dal.net
- Better Telnet: Since NCSA stopped work on their Telnet program after 2.7b5, these folks have taken up the torch. For us casual users, the differences aren't that apparent. However, I did have to make a modified version, removing the FTP server options, in order to please the Powers That Be at the computer labs in which I work...
Games
Well, pretty much the only game I play that has a large Web presence is the Marathon series of games from Bungie. The Marathon titles are a 3D First person game, similar to DOOM or Duke Nukem 3D, with the exception that these games actually have a plot, and a detailed and complex storyline, besides being fun to play... :)
- Bungie Software: The company's website. Be sure to peer through the live hallway security webcam, and read the letters and responses from the ever cynical (but lovable) webmaster.
- DoubleAught Software: The makers of the Marathon Infinity scenario.
- Marathon Central: One of the most complete sources of Marathon links. The Marathon.org domain is also home to many excellent Marathon-related pages.
- Hastur's Workshop: From the folks at DoubleAught, fancy tricks and tips for making all sorts of neat things in Marathon maps.
- Marathon's Story: The quest to understand every part of the Marathon storyline continues...a fascinating page, full of lots of great information for those hopelessly enthralled by the games.
- The Marathon Spoiler Guide: Complete spoilers, for the first Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal, and Marathon Infinity.
- DØH's Marathon Page: This guy makes all sorts of little applications and resources for those hard-core map and scenario makers. Can't say I understand what they're all supposed to do...
Here are some random, non-Marathon, game links:
- AppleTalk Games Over the Internet: Yes it's possible, but not like the companies involved will admit it...
- FreeVerse Games: The makers of Jared and SimStapler! Jared is one of those applications where you run it and think "ah...this is why computers were invented". So popular was Jared, that they even ported it to Windows95!
- Ambrosia Software: Ambrosia makes a lot of well-crafted programs, both games and actually useful programs. Makers of the open-ended space game "Escape Velocity" and the addictive "Barrack", among many others.
- Jim Burton's Games: Some free games...dammit, this guy made "Bill The Demon"! Sure, I got stuck and stopped playing, but you get to play the part of a minor demon descending into Hell to get Satan's autograph, gobbling souls along the way. Is that cool or what? Plus, the icon is just too damn spiffy...it's become my Face file for DALnet.
- HitchHiker's Invisiclues (FTP): Text of the invisiclues for the original Infocom HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy game. Not only necessary for solving the game (or so it seemed to me), but damn funny as well. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry, it either means you're too young or weren't a game-a-holic way back when Infocom ruled the realm of text-only adventure games...remember Zork?
Utilities
Here are links to download the programs I use a lot, 'cause I know you all wanna be just like me, right? Right? ...um, hello?
Note: Most of these link to the INFO-MAC Hyperarchive. You could use a different search engine to find them if you wish.
- Image Mapper: If you're going to make imagemaps, I'd suggest this program. It's very easy to use and generates the HTML code for you. This is what I used to make the imagemap my main page. It's not perfect, but what can you expect...
- HTML Editor 1.0: Current version is up there somewhere, but I honestly prefer v1.0. Frankly, I'm a bit of a codger when it comes to HTML coding. I prefer to do almost everything by hand (with the exception of imagemaps and Hex colors), so any HTML editor that assumes to write any code for me gets the boot. This version is really only a couple steps up from using SimpleText. It shrinks and grays out tags after you write them, and adjusts how the text looks when you designate it a link, a header, bold, or whatever. It also has some automated features if you care to use them, but I don't. That's pretty much it. Maybe if people still learned how to write good code we wouldn't have to many crap cookie-cutter pages around or be forced to churn through the horrible code that programs like FrontPage turn out. Oh well, enough ranting for me. Sorry.
- Graphic Converter: This is probably one of the only true indispensable programs out there. Converts graphic files between any formats you could think of, allows for image editing and creation, and now has more Web-authoring features. Insanely useful.
- CopyPaste: Expand your clipboard to 10+ slots, along with a lot of built in tools.
- Anarchie: One of the best Mac FTP clients. It does not currently support FTP-Resume like Fetch or NetFinder (it will in version 3, under development), but it's much more stable for long modem downloads.
- Fetch: A classic FTP client...supports FTP-Resume, and maybe a little easier for newbies to use. Not as stable as Anarchie, though.
- NetPresenz: From the same source as Anarchie, this program allows you to set up your computer as a Web/FTP/gopher server, and in concert with the built-in features of a Mac, you can set whatever levels of security and access you wish.
- Plain Text: A fairly simple text editor. It can handle larger files than SimpleText and is useful for converting files between UNIX, PC, and Mac platforms.
- AVI to Quicktime Kit: Allows you to add Quicktime resources to Windows AVI files to view them via the QT Movieplayer.
- ColorSwitch Pro: From Ambrosia Software, this puts a drag-down menu in your menu bar allowing quick access to screen options, sound levels, PPP connections, the CD player, and more. Customizable as well. This is useful if you don't use ControlStrip.
- Flash-It: A screen-capture control panel. Quite useful, and more flexible than the Mac's built-in screen capture ability.
- Web Color: Gives you the Hexadecimal value of any color you generate. Will also generate HTML code for you if you so desire. MacOS8 now has an HTML color picker built in, and will give you the closest "safe" color you want, so you really only need this if you're still runninf System 7.x.
- Pixel Spy: Allows you to find the Hexadecimal color value of any pixel on the screen.
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