Would anyone be interested in contributing material to a 90’s Mac 'zine made with something like DOCMaker?
DOCMaker was a tool for creating stand-alone documents - the documents ran as applications. They were much more light-weight than PDFs which weren’t very nice to read on screen until the very end of the OS 9 era. They were popular for manuals and for zines like “About This Particular Macintosh”. It’s a very basic/raw look, much like an unstyled web page with the normal Mac fonts, you add your own touch with pictures (but no text wrapping). It prints to something like this, for which you can get the DOCMaker file here, but it needs an old Mac or emulator to display.
You can embed pictures and supposedly also QuickTime movies with sound, although I couldn’t get movies to work on first attempt. Perhaps audio content could be distributed in a different way. But I think it’d be fun to make a little collection of text and extremely compressed JPEGs about Powerbooks, old software and the “retro avant garde” in general. Both from people who have stories to share, and from people who are new to this. I was thinking something that could serve both as preservation/documentation, but also as a way to spread the word and draw more interest to these old applications.
Any takers?
