Thread

Best OS 6 Apps

68kMLA Software 17 posts Jun 25, 2007 to Jun 26, 2007

#1 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 - 23:43 68kMLA

I want to get a list of software that works in OS 6. What I want to do is load up OS 6.08 on my IIsi with 5MB of RAM and see what it can do. I have a few Aldus boxed apps that work in OS 6 and just recently won a copy of Adobe photoshop 2.5 LE that works in 6.

Any ideas of software that would be perfect for OS 6, like the best of the era?

#2 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 00:37 68kMLA

I don't know about "best," but a couple of useful sites with sys 6 apps are:

home.earthlink.net/~gamba2

and the System 6 Heaven site:

http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html

Gamba's site also has links to many other sites. Some of the links are dead now, but a great many are still live.

There's also Le Grenier du Mac (the Mac attic), which has a mix of 6 and 7 apps:

http://www.grenier-du-mac.net/

These will keep you going a good long time. There are other great ones, too, and I just know that others on this Forum will jump in and let you know about their faves shortly.

#3 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 00:42 68kMLA

MS Works 2.0 is nice. I use it on all my 68k's.

#4 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 00:57 68kMLA

I use it on all my 68k's.

All of one is that?

Or do you also have a completely pimped-out SE/30 that you haven't told us about? }

#5 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:04 68kMLA

Uh, didn't I send you Word 5.1, Excel 4.0, and a version of Stratavision 3D that will all gladly work in System 6?

#6 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:15 68kMLA

Well Word and Excel are a nice start, should be other apps that were must haves back in the OS 6 years.

This goes for utilities as well as productivity apps.

#7 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:33 68kMLA

Oh, and before I forget: Spectrum Holobyte Tetris.

#8 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:38 68kMLA

ClarisWorks 2 is IMO one of the best packages that will run on System 6. But again, this is a package of productivity apps.

#9 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:43 68kMLA

I love ClarisWorks and HyperCard too, but I don't think that either one fits Unknown_K's style.

#10 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:51 68kMLA

I have clarisworks 2.0 disks with manuals, and hypercard.

Keep thinking of some more apps.

#11 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 01:53 68kMLA

Did you put a 9 GB drive on that bugger?

#12 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 02:17 68kMLA

For OS 6? no its a small under 500MB drive. OS 6 doesn't need the space, and a IIsi can't do much over 1.2MB/sec so there is no speed benefit from a faster drive.

I save the large drives for the A/V machines.

#13 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 03:17 68kMLA

I use it on all my 68k's.

Click to expand...

All of one is that? Or do you also have a completely pimped-out SE/30 that you haven't told us about? }

I have two, thank you very much. Plus the untold number of emulated ones

#14 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 13:34 68kMLA

I can only see one in your sig - now I think of it I seem to remember you recently got another Classic but it was dead and you were going to trash it?

#15 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 16:58 68kMLA

...a IIsi can't do much over 1.2MB/sec so there is no speed benefit from a faster drive.

System 6 will benefit from increased spindle speed, and thus decreased seek time, even on a Classic. I wrote a LEM piece with 10+ hours of testing and tons of graphs on exactly this point.

I halved the boot-time of my Classic in 6.0.8 just by swapping from an Apple 40MB 4200RPM drive to some random 7200RPM drive I found on my floor.

#16 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 20:47 68kMLA

...a IIsi can't do much over 1.2MB/sec so there is no speed benefit from a faster drive.

Click to expand...

System 6 will benefit from increased spindle speed, and thus decreased seek time, even on a Classic. I wrote a LEM piece with 10+ hours of testing and tons of graphs on exactly this point.

I halved the boot-time of my Classic in 6.0.8 just by swapping from an Apple 40MB 4200RPM drive to some random 7200RPM drive I found on my floor.

Don't forget that fast hard drives also produce more heat. If we're talking about using an external drive, it probably won't matter how much heat it produces, but if you're replacing an internal drive, the heat output is something that needs to be considered since most compacts have poor ventilation to begin with.

#17 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 - 21:38 68kMLA

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