Author: Galen (140.144.173.84)
Date: 01-24-2005 04:28
>Well, if I got an ST again, a 1040 STE, then
>what could I do with it?
>well, I would run Deluxe Paint ST.
>I would play Turrican.
>I would love to get a copy of Substation.
Old games are often a lot of fun on the original hardware. I primarily keep my STe around for gaming.
>but alas I wonder today about a computer
>without a hard drive
You could upgrade a ST to serve as a full-fledged computer, but I think it is more useful to think of a stock ST as an appliance. There are things it can do and things it can't. You only use it for the things it can do. My STe often serves as a FAX machine for instance.
>I used to have a hand scanner & I loved
>that, though now I have a scanner on my old
>mac & on my pc.
>I always wanted to try vidi st, though my
>Quadra 840av is pretty cool for taking short
>video clips.
It is unlikely that you would want to return to older scanning and digitizing technologies, although you certainly could do so. I have a hand scanner you could have for the cost of shipping. I also have a free digitizer (Coloreyes), although it is for stills only.
>I have never been one to experiment too far >with alternate os's...at the moment I am
>using MagicMac and with what it can do, I am
>fairly happy.
Well, MagicMac is an alternate OS of a sort. What are you doing on MagicMac? I tried to get a Powerbook 180 running it without success, but I just installed it on a Powerbook 3400C and it appears to work. (More testing is needed.) It would be interesting to know what software you are running (in a different topic/thread of course).
Galen
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