CompuServe Messages

Ackshewally, one could all sorts of interesting things with stuff from the resource forks, if one had the time and/or money. Aside from the CODE resources, most could be used on a properly-designed PC platform that emulated some key parts of the Mac software. The fact that the GUI resources are much more standardized on the Mac would make it easier to use them on a PC than vice-versa. If there were some standard "viewing engine" that a lot of Mac CD publishers were using (and I have no idea whether that's the case), a port to the PC would be more tedious than difficult. It's one of the ironies of the gross mistake Apple made in releasing the 128K Mac: the set of standard routines supplied with the system was much more primitive than it ought to have been, making it that much easier to emulate <g>.