Some old mac problems

[eggamagga]

Hey all. My motherboard on my PC blew, and I ended up getting a free old Imac to hold me over until I can afford a new PC. This computer is having a couple of problems however, and I would really appreciate some help, since I have no idea how to use a mac.
1) I can't play any flash movies or whatnot online. (ex. Homestarrunner.com) and I would like to know if I can do anything about that. I've tried both shockwave and macromedia. Macromedia won't load, and shockwave claims I don't have a plugins folder, when I do.

2) I can't play any of my old games. All of the files appear as pieces of paper that won't open.

3) Just a stupid small one, I can't get the scroll wheel on my mouse to work in any direction.

I would really appreciate any help you could offer, even though this site seems dedicated to PC's (Oh how I miss mine.) Thank you in advance!

[8Ball]

What os are you running? OS9 OSX?

[eggamagga]

The old OS 9.2.1. Like I said, it's an old mac...

[Colemanguy]

Thats a fairly old browser, most of the trouble is that those browsers haven't been updated to support those plugins. As far as the games go, its because they weren't written for the mac os but for a windows machine, so you more then unlikely unless you go and find mac verisons of those games be able to play them. As far as the scroll mouse goes, what type of mouse is it, if its a logitech mouse you can download the os 9 drivers from the logitech website because from my experince i don't think os 9 had builtin native scroll drivers, and i know for a fact that was the case with my OS+logitech Mouse setup.

[eggamagga]

Yeah, I ried to find an update like that online for free, but I guess Apple doesn't like it when people give their software away for free.:) I got an old shockwave player for the internet, so I can view the websites now, however the computer keeps screeming at me that I don't have enough memory and should put 'alocate' (or something like that) more memory to Internet Explorer. Anyway, I guess this is as good as it'll get. Thanks everyone for helping!