This is the July issue of the MacAssistant Tips and Tutorial. Over the last two years we have covered many topics relating to becoming more productive with your Mac. Also, literally hundreds of tips have been published to assist our members. Some of the other benefits of the newsletter are: - Membership in the private…

10-Key Racing is a typing-tutor racing game released in 2000 by Nate Chrysler under the Chrysler Graphics label. The premise is straightforward: "This game exercises your ten-key typing skills. In order to finish each race, you must complete a 35-character line of random numbers and decimals."GameplayPlayers race again…

How to install this interface * Launch Interarchy (version 3.8 or higher) * Select "Preferences Folder" from the "Settings" menu * Drag the file "11th September" into the "Home Items" folder * Switch back to Interarchy * Select "11th September" from the "Home" menu items and use it * If you wanna make "11th September"…

Version: 01/29/2000 Shareware $39.95 The MICR E13B Match font emulates the special printers or printer cartridge used to print the special characters at the bottom of checks used in the US and Canada. It is provided in both TrueType and PostScript format. With a laser printer it is possible to print checks without us…

Program Name: $1.64 Puzzle Description: Middle School level math program. Students must place four quarters, four dimes, four nickels, and four pennies on a 4 by 4 grid so that the rows and columns sum to given values. The program generates hundreds of problems on two levels of difficulty. Gary Smith gsmith@polymathl…

"Alien Scream" Alert Sound From lightyears away comes the "Alien Scream" alert sound from Clixsounds. This hi-fidelity stereo sound file has an element of surrealism like no other, with the strange, oscillating effect of an alien's attempt at high-decibel verbal communication. The "Alien Scream" alert beep is availab…

"Blarney" Alert Sound Bring some luck'o the Irish to your Mac with the new "Blarney" alert sound from Clixsounds. This high-fidelity stereo recording is a humorous character with an Irish accent exclaiming "What a bunch of blarney!" The "Blarney" alert beep is available in both 16-bit/44.1kHz and 8-bit/22.5kHz versio…

"Cheesy Group" Email Replacement Sound Announce the arrival of new email with the "Cheesy Group" email sound. This is a high fidelity recording of a group of cheerful people exclaiming "You Have New Mail!" in unison, reminiscent of the old radio announcement blurbs of the fifties. The sound can easily be used as an e…

"Cyberfem:Denied" Alert Sound This file from Clixsounds' vast collection of hi-fi sounds for Macintosh contains a futuristic female voice saying "Denied." The high tech effects applied to the vocal sound phenomenal when played through stereo speakers. It makes a great alert beep to be used on its own, or with Clixsoun…

"Demon Roar" Alert Sound The all-time most-download sound from Clixsounds is the "Demon Growl" alert sound. He's back...and this time, he's mad as all get-out! Introducing the "Demon Roar" alert, a freakish stereo recording of a creature roaring in terror. It's so real you can almost smell his horrid breath! The "Dem…

"Gasp!" Alert Sound Shock, disbelief...utter disgust! The Mac is the simplest computer this side of the sun and YOU made a mistake?! Then be appropriately alerted by the new "Gasp!" alert sound from Clixsounds. It's a brief stereo recording of a group of people gasping in disbelief, and will leave you with your tail b…

"Godwarning" Alert Sound This is one alert sound you're sure to heed. The "Godwarning" alert from Clixsounds is a short, hi-fi sound of a deep, dark voice saying "Warning." It has a slight preverb flange effect to it, giving it a subtle stereo "hi-techness." The "Godwarning" alert sound is available in both 16-bit/44…

"Heckler" Alert Beep Make a spectacle of the occasion every time your Mac beeps with the "Heckler" alert from Clixsounds. This stereo sample emits an outrageous outburst of laughter sure to prevent you from making such a mistake again! The "Heckler" alert beep is available in both 16-bit/44.1kHz and 8-bit/22.5kHz ver…

"Hot Rod Alert Sound" Make PCs eat your dust every time your Mac needs attention with the "Hot Rod" alert sound from Clixsounds. This high-octane stereo sound is an authentic recording of a 5.0-liter engine screaming a powerful rev, and will definitely get you in gear when you mess up! The "Hot Rod" alert sound, whic…

16 Marbles is a small shareware board puzzle for the Macintosh distributed in Info-Mac as 16-marbles-10.hqx. The readme describes it as "another nice little board game" whose object is to remove as many marbles as possible from the board, billed as easy to learn but hard to actually solve.GameplayThe player w…

"CyberFem Neural Net StartUp" Intro each computing session with a futuristic style with the Neural Net startup sound. This hi-fi sound is of a sterile female voice processed with preverb and subtle stereo effects saying "Connecting to neural net." The "Neural Net" startup sound is available in both 16-bit/44.1kHz and…

"Par Four" Email Replacement Sound You squeeze the grip softly, looking first at the ball, then at the cup. The ball, the cup. Drawing back, you edge the putter just six inches behind the white ball, recoiling gently as the head makes contact with just the right amount of force. The green, in perfect condition, escort…

"Smooch" Alert Sound Pucker up! This alert sound from Clixsounds sends a big, juicy kiss to anyone making a mistake on his or her Mac. Great for use as an alert sound, or even for new mail announcements. It can be used as an individual alert sound or as part of a collection of sounds randomly played using Clixsounds' …

"Transponder 2" Email Replacement Sound Announce the arrival of new electronic messages with the new "Transponder 2" email sound from Clixsounds. This hi-fidelity stereo sound file emits the hi-tech waveforms of a sophisticated communications device. It is attention-getting and ideal for an email notification sound. …

"Valley Girl" New Mail Sound Like, oh my gosh!, announce the arrival of new mail with this super-cool sound from Clixsounds. This really high quality sound, like, is this really cute valley girl exclaiming "Another email? Oh my gosh, I'm so popular!" It's a riot! Great for the ladies, and guys too... The sound can ea…

This Hyperstudio stack allows one to view some of the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997. Each image is accompanied by a caption that gives information about the image. I obtained permission from the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA to compile this information into a tutorial presentation. Mor…

25thSquare is a Classic Mac-era game preserved in this archive. Detailed metadata for this title was not available from primary curator sources at the time of cataloging, so the entry below records only what can be verified from the archive itself. Additional research notes are welcome from the community.About this ent…

The set contains the twelve zodiac icons. You can get the extended version of these icons from my web site. Ilona Melis e-mail: ilona@cyberrealm.net IliCon: http://cyberrealm.net/~janos Icons and other goodies!

2LavaLamps An AfterDark ScreenSaver Module by Jason Rainbows' Magic Theatre E-Mail: rainbow@kagi.com http://www.mindspring.com/~jasonrainbows Requires: Macintosh, AfterDark, color monitor. Two lava lamps to amuse your eyes while you and your Mac are idle. Transport your Mac back in time, to a place where there's bea…

Second Encounter is the full Macintosh sequel to the Wolfenstein 3D shareware demo First Encounter, expanding the game with 27 additional levels for a total of 30 stages adapted from the 3DO port. id Software's corridor shooter arrives with brighter graphics, new sound, and the same B.J. Blazkowicz hunt through Nazi-he…

Here are a few BE style icons redone with 32 bit color. Also included are a resource file with the icns and a modified BE Kaliedoscope scheme with these icons. mgreer@sirius.com

This is another revision of the Solar System Icon Set. This set contains 51 icons of planets, their satellites, comets, the sun and asteriods (7 added). More satellites of Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter are added. Some icons have been changed . The new 16x16-pixel small icon format is added. MacOS8.5 or later is…

37thResEx is a useful application for seeing, extracting, copying and transferring resources from files. By means of it you may: - view all types of resources into files; - view all resources of determined type; - view resources contents; - know resources attributes; - gather resources infos; - copy individual resourc…

3D-Box * Requirements: PPC, 6 MB RAM, MacOS 7.55 and up, (8.0 and before also need the Appearance manager; info at the website) * Description: 3DBox is an application that creates boxes in OBJ format and matching texture map templates as PICTs. You give the heigth, width and length of the box and decide in which res…

3D Brick Bash is a 1993 Macintosh shareware arcade game by Matthew Diamond that reimagines the classic Breakout formula in three dimensions. The player controls a paddle to keep a ball in play, knocking it into a wall of bricks and trying to prevent it from reaching the floor as it ricochets through the playfield.Gamep…

3D Brick Bash is Matthew Diamond's 1993 take on Breakout for the Classic Mac, swapping the flat 2D playfield for a dimensional perspective in which the ball travels away from the paddle into a receding wall of bricks. Released as Mac shareware, it targets 68k systems through Mac OS 9.GameplayPlayers slide a paddle to d…

3-D Cannon by billc@CS.Stanford.EDU is a Macintosh shareware artillery game that updates the classic two-player tank-duel formula with real-time 3D polygon graphics, texture mapping over fractal terrain, and a chase camera that follows each shot through the air to its impact point.Gameplay loopTwo players command stati…