Mac Pc
| Filename | mac-pc.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 763.6 KB (781931 bytes) |
| Downloads | 7 |
MacPC is a small word-game utility distributed through Info-Mac's word category. Billed by its author as the politically correct product label generator, it produces touchy-feely, new-age blurbs of the sort once required to dress up product packaging - intended as a humorous parody of late-90s marketing copy.
What it actually does
The program assembles canned label text on demand so that users do not have to think up the kind of soft-focus marketing language MacPC pokes fun at. The Info-Mac upload describes the workflow simply as letting MacPC end your drudgery rather than coining the phrases yourself.
Distribution
Mac Pc was uploaded to Info-Mac under game/word as mac-pc.hqx. The category placement reflects Info-Mac's convention of grouping novelty text generators with word games even when the program is more toy than puzzle.
Era and context
Generator gags of this sort were a small but recurring genre on the Info-Mac archive in the late 1990s, alongside corporate-jargon and excuse generators. MacPC sits in that tradition rather than offering any conventional gameplay.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
