Chatbots aren't Jarvis from Iron Man - They are Cliff Claven from Cheers.

I think there are probably some out there, likely would have started out as a niche contract job (like say fast food POS systems) and have built up from there. Though its really hard to make something like that "great" unless you hire experts from that field to help develop them.

Suggestions for old Mac Apps to look out for:

- WriteNow! a very nice word processor that was originally developed for Next computers, before word took over it was the favorite.

- ClarisWorks/AppleWorks - One of the better pre office integrated apps - the database was REALLY easy to use, and interfaced well with the vector graphics module, spreadsheet, and word processor...

- FoxBase+/Mac - Before Microsoft bought Fox Software they got "Mac religion" and it shows in the incredible FoxBase+/Mac its amazin how much capability fits in a floppy.

- SuperPaint - great bitmap paint program though not as accurate as later graphics apps. (fractional/grid positioning was an issue)

- Ready,Set,Go! A great alternative DTP program to PageMaker/Quark. Never used others but I hear I think it was FrameMaker that had some sort of template/database feature to manage/generate catalogs. There were some interesting things back in the day.

- Stepping out - virtual larger desktop

- PowerPrint - Hook into epson compatible parallel printers with serial->parallel adapter.

- Comic Strip Factory - way before there was ComicLife there was Comic Strip Factory - a nice clipart based comic strip compositor.

- HyperCard - Never got into it but it had quite a community.

- Of course programming languages like Pascal, Logo, and BASIC in various flavors.

Of course you have the early greats like the Adobe programs and Microsoft Word/Excel/Office.

I’m really sad about the loss of HyperCard (and HyperCard like things.) I worked in a musical instrument store in the early 90s and my boss had a Mac SE (maybe an SE/30 like in TFA?) tricked out with an entire custom set of HyperCard stacks designed to run his business, everything from inventory to accounting to instrument rental. Every now and then we’d need something and one of us would code up a new feature. My wife is starting a business today and I’m dreaming of having something as great as HyperCard to help her script up what she needs, but nothing commercial seems nearly as cool.

Perhaps you would enjoy https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

SuperCard was actively developed until a few years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCard?wprov=sfti1

Thanks for that info! I'm keen to get stuck into HyperCard stacks running on their native environment (not in an emulator) - so many people love HyperCard and miss it, so I look forward to seeing what the fuss is.

Dark Castle. Aldus Pagemaker. Word 5.1. After Dark.

My old Mac SE is strictly a toaster display. I turn it on to look at the toasters. After Dark is great!

Wow, I had forgotten about SteppingOut. I used that thing a lot on the smaller Macs.

I tink this was the one on pontoons -

https://archive.org/details/More_BASIC_Computer_Games/page/n...

Thank you both, this is exactly the illustrator!

Install Windows 11 for them.

How about wordle x 8 - Octordle - https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/?mode=daily

> I have yet to run into a printer that doesn't just magically work under linux.

You haven't used a Canon IP-90 printer. :-)

oh I'm sure they exist but it's to the point where if I need a printer I go to the store and buy a printer, without worrying about linux support whatsoever. In my experience printers have a better chance of working under linux than under windows.

DOGE to Employee: What did you do in the last week?

Employee: [lists of tasks]

A.I. to DOGE: *I can do that.*

DOGE to Employee: You're fired.

"Enter name and email to join waitlist" - stopped right there. Giving out name and email is one of my anxieties.

oh alright ^^ Do you have anything other in mind? Or how would I tell people when it's out or other things?

Maybe a check back later message, or a turn on notification for the site?

To encourage people to check back maybe have some sort of feature like a fortune cookie or a featured "resource of the day" they will find when the come back.

I had set one (Pi 3B+)up to do both a website as well as a public service announcement slideshow display for a local Community TV. Used PHP/CMSimple for the site and wrote a custom slider.

Things I learned:

- set the pi to reboot on poweroff

- Given this was TV used the AV output on the PI displaying in NTSC 4:3 (to support customers with older TVs), so had to be aware of overscan margins

- Added a startup script to start chromium in kiosk mode and open the slider page for the show side. worked 95% of the time, if not just power off then on.

- part of the troubleshooting was just unplug and replug - but SD cards will choke on too many power cycles, so instead of SD use a USB->SATA cable and a regular spinning rust HDD - slower but VERY reliable, the journaling file system can recover after power-outage.

- Get the right USB->SATA cable, USB-3 models seem to be more responsive and the PI can boot from them, there are some are too slow and the Pi will fail to boot.

- Slider had it's own login page (outside of CMSimple) to remotely manage the slideshow.

- Also changed the SSH Port to something uncommon to thwart bad guys.