Grackle68k Brings Twitter to Classic Macs

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For those of you reading this on a Mac IIvi, I have excellent news for you: Twitter is finally available for Macintosh System 6. And 7. And 8. And even 9, for those of you mad cats who have installed a PowerPC upgrade card.

It’s called Grackle68k, and it’s awesome. First, it allows you to post things to Twitter. Second, it allows you to learn that your post has gone through successfully. Genius.

Grackle68k via Gizmodo

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  • http://www.examiner.com/x-21940-Boston-Tech-Gear-Examiner Louis

    That. is awesome. I wish I still had my performa 638cd!

  • http://macfaq.org/ the pickle

    Bad news, Pete. The IIvi isn’t capable of running System 6:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/SP201

    It shipped with 7.1 + the first Enabler file.

    p

  • http://www.myspace.com/arthas2 David Fulero

    This is news to me you can read a modern website in system 7?

  • Pete Mortensen

    Shoot! Now I’ll never run Twitter in MultiFinder!

  • Jim

    So… I downloaded the program off their site, then used it in mini Vmac. It just seems to come up with some Dungeons and Dragons game from 1989.

  • http://www.retromaccast.com James

    Listen to our interview with Grackle68k’s developer on RetroMacCast: http://retromaccast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=549173