hai from my 1.5Ghz 15" powerbook g4, i'm using pineapple news on it on Mac OS X 10.4.11 :D
this is my first time ever using usenet, too
On 2026-01-30 22:47:54 +0000, Asahi Lovehart said:
hai from my 1.5Ghz 15" powerbook g4, i'm using pineapple news on it on Mac OS
X 10.4.11 :D
this is my first time ever using usenet, too
I don't believe I've ever heard of Pineapple News or if I have it
didn't make much of an impression,
you should d/l MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 which should run fine on your
10.4 system.
On 2026-01-31 02:55:43 +0000, super70s said:
On 2026-01-30 22:47:54 +0000, Asahi Lovehart said:
hai from my 1.5Ghz 15" powerbook g4, i'm using pineapple news on it on Mac
OS
X 10.4.11 :D
this is my first time ever using usenet, too
I don't believe I've ever heard of Pineapple News or if I have it
didn't make much of an impression,
Pineapple News
Pineapple News is a lightweight news aggregator designed for
Mac users, offering a user-friendly interface to access news
articles offline. As of September 2007, Pineapple News is
completely free. (Version 0.9.0).
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greater
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/pineapple-news>
I've never used it myself, but the screenshots look okay-ish. :-)
you should d/l MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 which should run fine on your
10.4 system.
I don't know if either NewsWatcher-X or Thoth work in MacOS 10.4, but
they are a bit newer then MT-NewsWatcher (although not as new as
Pineapple News).
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x> <http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/thoth>
hai from my 1.5Ghz 15" powerbook g4, i'm using pineapple news on it on Mac OS X 10.4.11 :D
this is my first time ever using usenet, too
In article <10lk5ov$2mch9$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
I don't know if either NewsWatcher-X or Thoth work in MacOS 10.4, but
they are a bit newer then MT-NewsWatcher (although not as new as
Pineapple News).
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x> <http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/thoth>
NewsWatcher-X and Thoth seemed a bit worse (or at least uglier :p) than MT-NewsWatcher so i just got that, it's nice but i'm not sure if i like
it better than Pineapple News? idk i'll use both for a bit and see
In article <noreply-F9B942.10263531012026@news.eternal-september.org>,
Asahi Lovehart <noreply@example.com> wrote:
In article <10lk5ov$2mch9$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
I don't know if either NewsWatcher-X or Thoth work in MacOS 10.4, but they are a bit newer then MT-NewsWatcher (although not as new as Pineapple News).
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x> <http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/thoth>
NewsWatcher-X and Thoth seemed a bit worse (or at least uglier :p) than MT-NewsWatcher so i just got that, it's nice but i'm not sure if i like
it better than Pineapple News? idk i'll use both for a bit and see
I use MT-NewsWatcher (and have used Thoth in the past) and, yeah... I get what you mean about their "aesthetic" - they are quite of their time. I
only use them on OS9, so don't know if the OSX versions are much
different, but they definitely take some getting used to - I suspect they look and feel more appropriate in the OS9 and earlier environment, more of
a natural fit.
They are worth persevering with - I gave up on Thoth as it did feel more fiddly than I liked, but MT-NW (and YA-NW, which is very similar) are good newsreaders. My only gripe is that there is no setting to retain read
posts - when a post is read or marked read, next time you load the group
it is gone. I'd like to keep an archive of the groups I read, mainly to
have the ability to easily go back to old threads and reply if something relevant comes to my mind days, weeks, or months later, but there appears
to be no such setting in these programs...
In article <vintageapplemac-3101261231100001@pmg3>,
vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) wrote:
In article <noreply-F9B942.10263531012026@news.eternal-september.org>, >>Asahi Lovehart <noreply@example.com> wrote:
In article <10lk5ov$2mch9$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
I don't know if either NewsWatcher-X or Thoth work in MacOS 10.4, but >>>>they are a bit newer then MT-NewsWatcher (although not as new as >>>>Pineapple News).
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x> >>>><http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/thoth>
NewsWatcher-X and Thoth seemed a bit worse (or at least uglier :p) than >>>MT-NewsWatcher so i just got that, it's nice but i'm not sure if i like >>>it better than Pineapple News? idk i'll use both for a bit and see
I use MT-NewsWatcher (and have used Thoth in the past) and, yeah... I get >>what you mean about their "aesthetic" - they are quite of their time. I >>only use them on OS9, so don't know if the OSX versions are much
different, but they definitely take some getting used to - I suspect they >>look and feel more appropriate in the OS9 and earlier environment, more of >>a natural fit.
They are worth persevering with - I gave up on Thoth as it did feel more >>fiddly than I liked, but MT-NW (and YA-NW, which is very similar) are good >>newsreaders. My only gripe is that there is no setting to retain read
posts - when a post is read or marked read, next time you load the group
it is gone. I'd like to keep an archive of the groups I read, mainly to >>have the ability to easily go back to old threads and reply if something >>relevant comes to my mind days, weeks, or months later, but there appears >>to be no such setting in these programs...
oh i do like MT-NewsWatcher, definitely can tell that it's made for OS9Welcome to USENET! At least you found a newsgroup that is actually (semi-)active - not many of those left...
but it looks alright, just not sure if i like it better than Pineapple
News
Asahi Lovehart wrote:
oh i do like MT-NewsWatcher, definitely can tell that it's made for OS9 but it looks alright, just not sure if i like it better than Pineapple NewsWelcome to USENET! At least you found a newsgroup that is actually (semi-)active - not many of those left...
I'm posting this message from Classilla 9.3.3 (somewhat updated fork of
the old Mozilla Suite), perfectly fine for USENET, under MacOS 9.2 on a beige G3 machine. The computer next to it is a 1.25GHz G4 MDD running
10.4 - I use Seamonkey there for USENET. Trying to remember if I've
tried Pineapple News; I do have MT-NewsWatcher on a Pismo running MacOS
9.1 - SO MANY WINDOWS...
In article <10ndm68$1odhn$1@dont-email.me>, crimsonRE <crimsonre@embarqmail.com> wrote:
Asahi Lovehart wrote:
Welcome to USENET! At least you found a newsgroup that is actually
oh i do like MT-NewsWatcher, definitely can tell that it's made for OS9
but it looks alright, just not sure if i like it better than Pineapple
News
(semi-)active - not many of those left...
I'm posting this message from Classilla 9.3.3 (somewhat updated fork of
the old Mozilla Suite), perfectly fine for USENET, under MacOS 9.2 on a
beige G3 machine. The computer next to it is a 1.25GHz G4 MDD running
10.4 - I use Seamonkey there for USENET. Trying to remember if I've
tried Pineapple News; I do have MT-NewsWatcher on a Pismo running MacOS
9.1 - SO MANY WINDOWS...
Ain't that the truth... includng this window that I am replying in, there
are seven (7!) MT-NewsWatcher windows currently open - this reply, your message, the newsgroup, the full group list, the server status window, my subscriptions window, and the new group window... Man, the old days were *wild*!
On 2026-02-22 18:14:18 +0000, scole said:
Ain't that the truth... includng this window that I am replying in, there are seven (7!) MT-NewsWatcher windows currently open - this reply, your message, the newsgroup, the full group list, the server status window, my subscriptions window, and the new group window... Man, the old days were *wild*!
7 windows?! You don't need all those windows open for normal reading
and replying. If you keep the three you really need neatly stacked it
isn't any more cluttered than Pineapple News as far as I'm concerned.
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