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When I make it to the office at 1300, delayed by health issues, I will send if I remember. For the biggest chance that I remember, email me before that time.

I think I said before, I recently suffer from “iron poor blood” which from day to day leaves me groggy, weak, and/or dizzy. The meds aren’t working and in a few weeks they will pump the rusty water from a coffee can of old nails left out in the rain into my veins, supposedly fixing things. I am in the fifth consecutive really bad day. I haven’t had this many really bad days in a row since this started in June.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 25, 2025 - 04:08 pm: Edit

Shawn Hantke wins a commendation medal for getting the font suitcases working (SSD 10, SSD 12, SILICON BEACH 12, SILICON BEACH 24, BOX 10). Anyone who wants these is welcome to them. Shawn, send them to Albert, and everyone can ask Albert for them until we get them into the download section.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 11:30 am: Edit

The Font suitcases were sent to Al. They are in Stuffit Archive files (.sit) sent to me by SVC, all I did was unstuff them, and then copy them to my mac hd-system-fonts folder and restart the computer to install them. To clarify "I got them working" they are working for me on a Power Mac G3 running Mac OS 9.2.2. I have tried to convert them with Fontographer 4 for Classic Mac, and the current version of FontForge for Windows 11 and haven't had any success so far to turn them into a Font File Type that will work on newer Macs or PCs yet.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 03:47 pm: Edit

Anyone who can convert the Mac font suitcases to something a PC can read, ask Albert for the files.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 04:20 pm: Edit

I upgraded my Power Mac G3 with a Power Mac G4 found locally. It is a Mirrored Door Drive Model with dual 867MHZ processors and the max 1.5G of RAM. I bought a pair of Solid-State Drive Kits from Other World Computing, so it now has two 120GB SSDs instead of Hard Drives. I believe I now have all of the old applications needed for publishing and I also bought a bunch of old reference books. Online information on the late 90s and early 2000s applications is pretty sparse and since I don’t have much Macintosh experience, there has been a learning curve.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 04:20 pm: Edit

SVC Do you remember what application you used to create the BOX and SSD fonts? Due to the quirks of Mac OS 9 I am still not even sure what kind of font files they are. They work just fine on my Mac OS 9 in Excell, Word, DeskPaint & DeskDraw, Freehand 8, etc. I have tried on Mac OS 9 to open them with Fontographer 4, Font Studio 2, and Font Monger 1.5 with no luck. I have also had no luck using FontForge or FontLab for windows 11 PC. FontForge did open Silcon Beach and supposedly created a TTF font that should work on PC. I made Word 2001 docs and Acrobat 5 pdfs of the BOX, SSD and Silicon Beach Fonts. Not sure how helpful they will be, but I’ll send them to Al.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 09:31 pm: Edit

That was way too many years ago.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, September 29, 2025 - 05:44 pm: Edit

If someone has an actual font builder, I or recreated bitmaps for all of the fonts used on SSDs. So, if we can't translate them, you might be able to rebuild them.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Monday, September 29, 2025 - 06:16 pm: Edit

Mike, if you could email me the bitmaps. I can plug them into fontforge and see if it will create a pc font from that.