GROTICinstall is the installer package for GROTIC, a Classic Mac arcade-puzzle game by Impression89 (Rene Bauer) in the spirit of Puzzle Bobble. The player aims a stream of coloured balls with the mouse to clear a field; matching three or more of the same colour makes them disappear, with time pressure and shifting lev…

Grotic Read Me.Txt is the readme/notes file accompanying Grotic, a shareware action puzzle game for classic Mac OS by Rene Bauer (Imp89/Impression89). Grotic plays in the spirit of Puzzle Bobble: clear a field of balls by aiming with the mouse and matching three or more of the same color before time runs out.About the …

Gryphon Bricks is described by its publisher as "an inexhaustible toychest of virtual Lego bricks," a 1996 creative construction toy from Gryphon Software whose models can even be animated with AppleScript. This demo build showcases the isometric building environment for Mac users curious to try the toolkit.Virtual Bri…

This program will let you open files created on an Apple II series microcomputer. It will let you open text files, BSAVEd text, Lo-Res graphics, and Hi-Res graphics, and Applesoft program files. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from th…

G's and J's Maelstrom Sounds is a fan-made sound pack for Ambrosia Software's Maelstrom, the classic Mac asteroids-style shooter. Recorded by Psychotic Space Boy (spaceboy@netspace.org) and his friend Josh using a PlainTalk microphone and SoundEdit, the set replaces Maelstrom's stock effects with the duo's homemade voc…

This is a version of BASIC. The commands are a little different than most versions of BASIC. You may want to look at the file "Gammasoft BASIC Book" for information. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, if you have Mac…

Here is a Microsoft Word 5.1 file containing the command reference for Gammasoft BASIC. If you haven't used Gammasoft BASIC before, download this file.

Greetings: I put this file together to simplify the process of doing the yearly girl scout cookie sale for both daughters troops. Keeping track of the cases / boxes due to each girl, as an efficient way to plan the order is the goal. In addition, keeping an eye to the troop profit and deposits Enjoy, Eric Special re…

Here is an implementation of the Logo programming language. There is no documentation, so you may want to look at some books on Logo first. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, if you have MacOS Easy Open enabled, use …

FONDetective is a freeware utility that takes font suitcases by drag & drop and writes a text file for each detailing every last bit of information contained in each FOND resource in each suitcase. The report is in human-readable form (as compared to the FOND TMPL in ResEdit), and the detailed information is useful in …

Gaskill reports on the number of fonts currently open on your Mac. It may make you feel like an IronPerson to run with a lot of fonts, but, in fact, your system heap will be abnormally large, your performance will be generally degraded, and your likelihood of crashing will be increased. Gaskill will tell you when it mi…

Rasputin the Kitten is a freeware utility that examines every FOND resource found in every font suitcase found in every folder delivered to it in a drag & drop batch. It reports on any FOND or NFNT numbering conflicts found. This is a diagnostic tool useful for cleaning up your PostScript font library.

This is a collection of little programs that do little things. They haven't made it into full-blown projects. These files require the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, if you have MacOS Easy Open enabled, use the HyperCard Player instead.…

This is a graphing calculator. There is a black-and-white version and a color version. The color version can only plot points, while the black-and-white version can draw smoothly. These files require the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, …

This program is a screen saver program. It will let you select a module to use as a screen saver. To activate it, launch the ItMotN Backgrounder application and leave it in the background. To select a module or change other settings, open the ItMotN Setup file. Unlike other Gammasoft programs, this file does not need …

This prgram puts an LED display in the bottom left corner of your screen. To chage what is displayed on this LED display, other programs tell it to "open" various strings. The string contains two words. The first one is three letters long: First: Vertical Position: T = Top, M = Middle, B = Bottom Second: Horizontal Po…

Here is a simple, small library automation system. It is for use on a server on a Local Area Network. Since I just put it together one day, it isn't very much. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, if you have MacOS Eas…

This program creates and reads descriptions of simple cartoon characters. Included are the character files for my own cartoon, Mylar City. There is also a MetaCard version of the program, if you want to debug and compile it. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engin…

This program lets you make music. This uses the HyperCard play command. Very little support is included for polyphonics, and even this support doesn't work. Song samples are included. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server o…

This is a simple painting program. It's in development, so don't ask. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, if you have MacOS Easy Open enabled, use the HyperCard Player instead. When you decompress this file, be sure …

This archive contains the minimal amount of files needed to run some Gammasoft software products. This includes the runtime application, shared code, menu database, icon database, and main menu file.

This lets you create little schematics. It requires the Diode font. It's also in development, so don't ask about this, either. This file requires the Gammasoft Runtime Engine. If you don't have the Gammasoft Runtime Engine, you can download it from this server or, if you have MacOS Easy Open enabled, use the HyperCard…

This contains information about how to make Gammasoft programs, ItMotN modules, and how to control the LEDDisplay program. It contains information in MS Word 5.1 format, RTF format, and Text format. Also included are the necessary programs needed to convert your applications and the LEDDisplay demo program.

Caesura is a freeware utility that cuts files of type 'TEXT' into chunks that are more manageable or more useful. I'd like to say that it's the most useful of my utilities, but I know this is untrue. Caesura exists to fulfill a need you will have infrequently. But when you _do_ have that need, it will do the job quickl…

htmElevation does two things: It enhances the typography of your web pages, and it substantially optimizes them. The enhancements include ISO-entity conversion and optional "curly" quote and dash conversion. These changes may seem impractical, but they will make your pages look more professional. And converting special…

Mark My Words - a very elaborate MS-Word binary to QuarkXPress Tags text filter. It eats Word 4.0, 5.0 or 5.1 files, interactively or by Drag & Drop, and converts the binary to QuarkXPress tagged text. You can elect to include or omit any feature of Word's styling, and many features can be converted from their WP-like …

ShawBerry does this: it merges text from one file into another at the insertion points you specify. You tell it which file to amend and which file to take the amendments from. In other words: the Amend file is _almost_ the way you want it. The Amendments file contains correction lines that, when "pasted" into the Amend…

SmartClip a very small app that will do case conversion off of the clipboard and return the converted text to the clipboard. This gives you case conversion everywhere you can copy and paste. The conversions are very smart, using the same logic used by my Torquemada the Inquisitor. We don't clobber or (or anything wit…

SmartClip a very small app that will do case conversion off of the clipboard and return the converted text to the clipboard. This gives you case conversion everywhere you can copy and paste. The conversions are very smart, using the same logic used by my Torquemada the Inquisitor. We don't clobber or (or anything wit…

Torquemada the Inquisitor search and replace sets to faciliate the gross conversion of raw text to typographic-quality HTML or Javascript functions or files. Conversion are included for XPress Tagged text, for the ISO 'entities', and to make anchors from common URL types. The final search and replace set will convert a…

Demoware version of Torquemada's Ghost, a scriptable, backgroundable batch global search and replace engine with wildcards, pattern matching, string substitution, et very cetera. With Drag & Drop under Systems 7 or 8, you can run an infinite number of searches on up to 256 files in one batch. Features the most intellig…

Demoware version of Torquemada The Inquisitor, batch global search and replace software with wildcards, pattern matching, string substitution, et very cetera. With Drag & Drop under Systems 7 or 8, you can run an infinite number of searches on up to 256 files in one batch. Features the most intelligent case-conversion …

XP8 - a very intelligent file filter that cleans up and makes the filthiest text QuarkXPress-ready. Among many other features, it offers DOS-file reformatting, financial-text clean-up, garbage disposal, typographic quality enhancement, and the best quote conversion we know of. Used with Mark My Words (GST-MMWDemo.sit) …