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Favourite app, utility, control panel or extension.

Favourite app, utility, control panel or extension. Software 59 posts May 4, 2007 — Jul 27, 2008

#1 Fri, 4 May 2007 - 20:42

Out of all the apps that you can run on a 68k, what's your favourite? It doesn't have to be something big like Photoshop (though that's mine), it might just be a small utility you find phenomenally useful and perfectly crafted... or anything in between. Doesn't have to be popular, or even able to be widely used either.

Dana

#2 Fri, 4 May 2007 - 20:43

The Tilery is cool, and DragThing.

#3 Fri, 4 May 2007 - 20:52

the finder.

#4 Fri, 4 May 2007 - 21:12

Symbionts, Graphic Converter

#5 Fri, 4 May 2007 - 22:51

Ram doubler. Very useful IMHO. I found it Possible to browse the web on your Centris 610 after putting it on. before that, it was painfully slow

#6 Fri, 4 May 2007 - 23:15

MPW

#7 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 00:05

Mode32. Its uses are endless.

#8 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 02:08

Favourite app: ClarisWorks 2: So simple, yet so powerful. It just works. HyperCard also, for the same reasons

Favourite utility: Norton Disk Doctor from Norton Utilities 3.1: Back in the day this saved my ass many times. IMHO NUM 3.1 was the single best piece of software to ever come out of Symantec.

Favourite CDEV: DeskPicture

Favourite INIT: Aaron

#9 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 03:57

stuffit expander all the way!!!

#10 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 04:12

Some favorites would be:

Desktop Patterns

After Dark 2.0

Cosmic Osmo

Sound

ClarisWorks 4

Auto Power On/Off (LOTS of fun!)

SoundEdit 16

Treasure Mathstorm!

Sim City 2000

ResEdit

I could keep going...

#11 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 04:18

Monopoly!

#12 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 05:34

MacDraw II and HyperCard top the list.

#13 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 05:41

gotta say it:

MYST I !!! I *love* that game. best puzzle game of all time. Picks your intellect quite a bit

#14 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 14:37

I just remembered...SoundMaster!!! I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that one yet! :O

#15 Sat, 5 May 2007 - 18:44

MAZE. It's the simplest, smallest possible little Mac game/app, but it's very addictive. It keeps me coming back to System 6 every time.

#16 Mon, 7 May 2007 - 01:24

I loved (and learned) WriteNow a lot in the 1980s and I was upset when I was instructed to use Word 3.x and 4.x. Word interfered too much with my writing so you can imagine how much more frustrated I feel about more recent versions.

I'll vote for WriteNow, with a nod to Word 5.0 or 5.1 (powerful, fast enough on a 68000, less-intrusive).

#17 Mon, 7 May 2007 - 01:45

ClarisWorks (v1), HyperCard, and Spectrum Holobyte Tetris won me over to the Mac (on an SE). MPW and ResEdit are pretty darned cool too. THINK Pascal has to be the second best development environment out there (second only to Turbo Pascal, and ahead of Borland C++).

Now I'm going to run off and cry.

#18 Mon, 7 May 2007 - 01:54

Pretty cool game:

Widget Workshop. Best game Maxis has EVER put out imho. I also have Sim Tower, Sim City, Sim City Resource Editor, I used the Battery Reset program for Depleting the Batteries in the duos, then charging it up. You can have it do this several times to make sure the battery zeros out.

Iomega Zip Tools was pretty good if you had a Zip drive (i have 3, 1x USB 1.1, 1x Parallel, 1x SCSI. The USB is broken) I also used to have an External Jaz drive. So I also used the Jaz utilities.

I also used to use a utility that allowed an FPU to be emulated on Macs that didn't have an FPU (was slow though) I used this on my PowerBook 190cs,

I also used a tool by apple that allowed you to connect an ethernet port up to the serial port, so you can share the ethernet connection, through the computer to the serial, so the serial-connected machine (i.e. a machine with no ethernet) can share the internet connection through the bridge-computer's ethernet.

I used this on my 7200/120 and had my PB 190cs hook up to the internet through it. then from there, it went to a hub, then to the cable modem.

It is availble on apple's site, albeit it's not supported by Apple.

Quickdraw and Quicktime VR are very handy, as well as Quicktime (i used to work with VR Files a LOT)

Also, all the little utilities that apple made for their machines were nice. There was one that allowed you to use the Newton's screen as a tablet input for the apple (through the serial port. then again, that may be 3rd Party)

I believe that was an MP3 player for the old 68k Machines (still, i don't remember the name for it. Just google "68k MP3 Player)

There is also a utility that fools OS 8 into installing on an SE/30 (with the '030 CPU)

Sorry if I don't remember the names, but I am sure with a bit of 'googling' you can find out what they are. I just don't have time to post it right now.

#19 Mon, 7 May 2007 - 02:35

I like widget Workshop. We got it in a maxis game pack with like 15 games.

#20 Mon, 7 May 2007 - 03:33

Didn't Widget Workshop come with (physical) widgets in the box or something?

#21 Mon, 7 May 2007 - 11:24

like many of you, ClarisWorks and HyperCard

oh, and ZTerm, its quite useful now with newer macs that have the wrong kind of SuperDrive

#22 Wed, 9 May 2007 - 01:29

Shufflepuck Cafe!!!

#23 Wed, 9 May 2007 - 02:27

Didn't Widget Workshop come with (physical) widgets in the box or something?

I believe it came with a compass and some other stuff...

#24 Thu, 10 May 2007 - 07:13

Gravte ? (spelled in a french kinda way) - the icons would pivot at the point you grabbed them, like gravity was pulling on them ...... as you drug them across the screen

#25 Thu, 10 May 2007 - 07:20

there used to be an extension, that if you dragged the icons while holding the keys, you could *throw* them and they would crash into the sides of the screen, or drop them and they would crash at the bottom of the screen. Of course, when the key was let go, it would go back to normal

They also had the virtual stapler, and virtual viagra (where when you started the program, you clicked the mouse, and the mouse would grow by up to x800 than the original mouse. You then heard a voice that said "Whoa hohoho!" when you clicked again, the mouse would go back to normal, and then you heard the voice" Aww...")

#26 Thu, 10 May 2007 - 07:27

Return to Zork (played most of it a few months ago but got stuck on one of the last puzzles!)

HyperCard!

PhrazeCrazePlus and Carmen Sandiego (two games I've had since the dawn of time, so it seems. Never get sick of them.)

Oh and there was this awesome programme circa system 7.5 that changed the look of the entire system. All the menus, radio buttons, check boxes etc. Does anyone remember it? From memory I think it made the radio buttons look like cracked eggs in their shells, viewed from above, with green yolk. I'm sure you can all imagine that.

#27 Thu, 10 May 2007 - 07:40

Oddest Software:

Ahem .....

Koff Koff .....

MAC Playmate .......... lame click here I'll take that off Gray Scale Nudity

Psycho .... Mass Murder Game - not graphic, but the intent aka world view sure was bent .... kill people, steal stuff - you could go on a rampage, but then the Cops showed up, and ended the game for you .... aka you died (programed with World Builder?)

there was also a save the princess, kill the evil wizard game made with to as well ......... i'll have to dig

#28 Thu, 10 May 2007 - 09:44

I also used a tool by apple that allowed you to connect an ethernet port up to the serial port, so you can share the ethernet connection, through the computer to the serial, so the serial-connected machine (i.e. a machine with no ethernet) can share the internet connection through the bridge-computer's ethernet.

That would be LocalTalk Bridge, and yes, you can still download from Apple's Older Software Downloads page.

There was one that allowed you to use the Newton's screen as a tablet input for the apple (through the serial port

That's COOOOOLLL!!

I believe that was an MP3 player for the old 68k Machines

MpegDEC

There is also a utility that fools OS 8 into installing on an SE/30 (with the '030 CPU)

WishIWere

#29 Thu, 10 May 2007 - 14:00

Oddest Software:
Ahem .....

Koff Koff .....

MAC Playmate .......... lame click here I'll take that off Gray Scale Nudity

Psycho .... Mass Murder Game - not graphic, but the intent aka world view sure was bent .... kill people, steal stuff - you could go on a rampage, but then the Cops showed up, and ended the game for you .... aka you died (programed with World Builder?)

there was also a save the princess, kill the evil wizard game made with to as well ......... i'll have to dig

Heh, my local Atari salesman used to play that on the Magic Sac.

#30 Fri, 11 May 2007 - 18:11

ms word 5.1

claris works

stuff it

and the zork games