March 31, 2005
Other Games
copyright: Toshihiko Okuhara
mod date: Apr 2, 2003
license: free for non-commercial usePlays Reversi, otherwise known as Othello(TM). I found it unconventional (it gave me all four corners), but it beat me soundly anway. And that was on the easiest level.
March 30, 2005
Other Games
copyright: Ryutaro Sakaki, Noriaki MisawaMarch 29, 2005
mod date: Jul 3, 1996
license: FreewareThe documentation is in Japanese, but I was able to figure out how to play the game. A single click plants a flag, double clicking steps on the square.
Other
copyright: Carl PowellMarch 28, 2005
mod date: Dec 27, 1992
license: shareware"Designed to help you log your time on your Macintosh computer and keep track of the various projects on which you are working." (Reply from Carl Powell on 3/29/2005 states the shareware payment would still be accepted. But no further work is expected to be done on the program.)
Other General Interest
copyright: Abracadata, Ltd.
mod date: Dec 10, 1999
license: free demo for commercial productA drawing program. Can access libraries, "import a variety of file types", and "automatically generate charts".
Other
copyright: Abracadata, Ltd.
mod date: Dec 6, 1999
license: free demo for commercial productA variation of Might Draw (a drawing program from the same company) customized for designing homes. Requires system 6.0.7 or later.
copyright: Abracadata, Ltd.
mod date: Dec 7, 1999
license: free demo for commercial productA variation of Might Draw (a drawing program from the same company) customized for designing home landscapes. Requires system 6.0.7 or later.
copyright: Abracadata, Ltd.
mod date: Sep 17, 1992
license: free demo for commercial productA variation of Might Draw (a drawing program from the same company) customized for designing vegetable gardens. Requires system 6.0.7 or later.
March 26, 2005
Other
copyright: Synergistic Applications and Mainstay
mod date: Jul 20, 1998
license: free demo for commercial productFor creating "flowcharts, organization charts, process flow diagrams, decision trees, work overviews, and more." Requires "System 7 or later." To run on a Macintosh Plus, the "Minimum size" setting of "Memory Requirements" must be reduced, such as to 2048k.
March 21, 2005
Other General Interest
copyright: Ephraim Vishniac
mod date: ?
license: ?A "re-write of Steve Capp's Dali Clock program", that "should run on any 1-bit Mac (System 7 or earlier.)" (The original is limited to earlier machines and system versions.) "Dali Clock is a digital clock. When a digit changes, it 'melts' into its new shape." There is no last mod date, but the program includes the string "This version was created February 23, 1987". Thanks to Ephraim Vishniac for adding it to his home page (look for the phrase "Dali Clock"). Source code is included.
March 17, 2005
Programming Languages
copyright: UserLand Software, Inc.
mod date: Jan 6, 1992
license: ?The "first system-level scripting language for Macintosh." It is "also an outliner, with a programming language, toolset, verbset and storage system built around it." This was publicly released in 1998 in the message Antique: Frontier 1.0 (January 1992), however the link there no longer works. Thanks to Dave Winer for supplying a new link.
March 16, 2005
System Utilities
copyright: Apple Computer, Inc.
mod date: Aug 9, 1993
license: free, but don't redistribute"Provides configuration information, Disk First Aid (7.2) verification code, system file corruption detection, duplicate System Folder detection, and a logic board test." It "will run on all 7.0 and above". Mini vMac, as of version 2.6.0, will pass the tests, if 'Limit Speed' is turned on for the 'Clock/Interrupts' test.
March 3, 2005
Arcade Games
copyright: Robert P. Munafo
mod date: Jan 21, 2003
license: GPLA simple version of "Missile Command", from 1984. Described as "the only full-screen game that runs on every Mac model in its 20 year history". Source code is available.
February 27, 2005
Text Editors
copyright: Merzwaren
mod date: Dec 28, 1999
license: sharewareA "scriptable text editor for the Macintosh", that handles formatted text, embedded pictures and sound, multiple undo/redo, and many other features. Demonstrates the widely used WASTE text editing library by the same author.
System Utilities
copyright: In Phase Consulting
mod date: Nov 3, 1994
license: free for non-commercial useManages multiple clipboards.
copyright: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
mod date: Jun 24, 1997
license: freewareA "bridge between the cool new Drag Manager and the old Clipboard. You can drag a clipping into its Clipboard window, then paste it into a non-drag-savvy application. Or conversely, you can copy an item to the Clipboard, then drag it out of ClipStation's window to somewhere else."
copyright: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
mod date: Jun 12, 1997
license: freewareA utility to fix some problems with the desktop database, without completely rebuilding it - "for example, when you get a new version which has new icons, but the Finder keeps displaying the old ones."
Programming Tools
copyright: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
mod date: Jul 9, 1998
license: freeware"Simply drop a file or folder on it, and it will copy the full pathname, to the Clipboard, in one of 9 different quoting styles suitable for pasting into AppleScript scripts, URLs or MPW commands."
Other
copyright: H. Iimori
mod date: Apr 2, 1996
license: freewareA simple analog clock application. The documentation is in Japanese, but the program seems straight forward enough. Double clicking on the clock toggles the display of the second hand.
copyright: In Phase Consulting
mod date: Jul 22, 1994
license: free for non-commercial use"A drag-and-drop utility for converting text files into a format compatible with the Macintosh."
February 13, 2005
I've moved information about new versions and changing availability to a new status page. This page will now only list newly addded software.
December 23, 2004
Arcade Games
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: May 27, 1996
license: freewareA "Tetris-like game for 2 players". You need to apply the 'B/W patch' to use it on a Macintosh Plus. "Requires System 6.07 or later."
Other Games
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Nov 1, 1994
license: freewareA "solitaire puzzle. You can erase the tiles which make connection with the same pattern, horizontally or vertically."
System Utilities
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Aug 21, 1996
license: freewareReveals "the creator of a file. If you drag and drop TeachText document onto WIMM icon, it's reveal TeachText application on Finder."
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Aug 21, 1996
license: freeware"Reset the creation and modification date of files/folders." Requires "System 7.0 or later".
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Mar 14, 1996
license: freewarePerforms conversion between Text File and Text Clipping, and conversion between Pict File and Pict Clipping.
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Mar 14, 1996
license: freewareCan create a small application which launches another application and tells it to open the documents currently selected in the Finder. So, for example, you can have a command in the Apple menu to open the selected documents with BBEdit.
Programming Languages
copyright: Mike Brady
mod date: Mar 24, 2003
license: postcardwareAn "Apple Macintosh implementation of Prolog". Requires "Mac OS 7.5.5 and later". It claims to need at least "4 Megabytes", which isn't possible on a Macintosh Plus, but it still seems to run when given less, such as 1.5 Megabytes. One problem is that it will not work if you give the program all the available remaining memory, you have to set its partition size smaller, leaving some free. (The benchmarks table lists a Macintosh Plus, which is why I thought it might work in the first place.)
Other
copyright: Stefan Haller
mod date: May 1, 2000
license: sharewareAn "offline reader for Usenet newsgroups and Internet e-mail". This version, not the latest, "has been tested on 7.1 and later". Mini vMac does not yet have any way to connect to the Internet, but this program could still be used to view saved files. Requires "Internet Config".
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Sep 16, 1997
license: freeware"Converts the end-of-line code of text files between Macintosh, MS-DOS/Windows, and UNIX formats."
copyright: Takahiro Sumiya
mod date: Aug 22, 1993
license: freewareConverts "Pict file into EPS file." Requires "System 7".
copyright: Kris Coppieters
mod date: Aug 1, 1996
license: freewareConverts "text or RTF files dropped onto its icon into HTML format". "requires system 7 or higher".
copyright: Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
mod date: May 2, 1996
license: free for non-commercial useA demonstration program for a library of routines "for the Handling of Space Group Symmetry". Related to Crystallography, I think. A command line program compiled for the Macintosh.
November 24, 2004
Many of these programs will work only as of Mini vMac 2.5.0 - in previous versions the emulated machine would tend to hang when playing sounds in System 7. The entries for Robowar and BabyLabyrinth have been updated to remove mention of problems in System 7.
Since the 'Games' and 'Other' categories were getting too big, I've split off the new categories 'Arcade Games' and 'Other General Interest'.
Arcade Games
copyright: Ingemar Ragnemalm
mod date: Feb 14, 1997
license: freewareYou "control a butterfly with the mouse, collecting hearts while trying to avoid sticky flypapers."
copyright: Ingemar Ragnemalm
mod date: Aug 30, 2000
license: freeware"The game of slalom for 2 or more players".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Jun 18, 1996
license: shareware"arcade style game with similarities to Tetris".
copyright: C.K. Haun, RavenWare Software
mod date: Apr 1, 1996
license: freeware, former shareware"Cubes drop from the top of the window, and your goal is to stack and line them up." for "Mac OS 7-9"
copyright: C.K. Haun, RavenWare Software
mod date: Feb 27, 1996
license: freeware, former shareware"You are the driver of a massive trolley, carrying blocks built to stop the pistons." A "combination arcade-thinking game".
copyright: C.K. Haun, RavenWare Software
mod date: Feb 27, 1996
license: freeware, former shareware"Your goal is to make all the rectangles in a grid the same." "You change colors or patterns by clicking in the rectangle."
copyright: David Hjelle, "Supervised by Stephen Doering."
mod date: Jun 19, 1997
license: freeware"A simple golf game."
Other Games
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Jun 19, 1996
license: shareware"similar to an old computer game called Daleks, though there's lots more goodies in this game!".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Jun 18, 1996
license: shareware"You try to get rid of all your game pieces before the computer does and also try to get the highest score by placing the pieces in places where the most colors match up!"
copyright: Mark Pilgrim
mod date: Nov 7, 1994
license: GPL"A simple word game, guessing five and six letter words and getting feedback as to how many letters are correct. Similar to MasterMind, only with words." for "System 7.0 or later". Source code is available.
copyright: Mark Pilgrim
mod date: Jul 14, 1994
license: GPLA "solitare board game in which you must move nine tiles from one corner of the board to the other in the minimum number of moves." for "System 4.1 or later". Source code is available.
copyright: Mark Pilgrim
mod date: Jul 13, 1994
license: GPL"The object is to fill the board with marbles such that no row, column, or diagonal has two of the same marble", using "as few different marbles as possible". Source code is available.
copyright: David Hjelle, "Supervised by Stephen Doering."
mod date: Jun 9, 1997
license: freewareAn "unbeatable Tic Tac Toe program. There isn't much of a user interface".
copyright: David Hjelle, "Supervised by Stephen Doering."
mod date: Jul 5, 1997
license: freeware"A version of the classic board game Master Mind."
Text Editors
copyright: Greg Jalbert
mod date: Dec 10, 2003
license: sharewareA simple text editor with macros and an html view. Also some other assorted features.
System Utilities
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Jun 30, 1996
license: sharewareAssign "Hotkeys" to "up to fifty (50) applications, documents, Apple Menu Items, control panels, FKEYs, monitor depth (colors) or speaker volume settings." Also allows you to "have a menu pop up anywhere on the screen when you hold a key (option, command, control or shift in any combination)". For System "6.0.5" or later.
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Oct 29, 1999
license: shareware"will allow you to use any key(s) you like to emulate other keys that your computer may not have (such as the Forward Delete key, the Page Up key, the End key, function keys F13-F15, Delete, Arrow keys, etc.)" For System "7 on up".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Mar 15, 2000
license: sharewareSend to and retrieve from scrap files with user definable hot keys. For System "7 on up".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Jun 20, 2000
license: sharewareA much fancier replacement for the Scrapbook Desk Accessory. For System "7 on up".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Dec 22, 2000
license: sharewareWhen installed "every key you press (you can define which keys to save or ignore) will be saved to a file". "This is an excellent way to make sure you won't lose any typing because of a crash". For System "7 on up".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Dec 31, 1996
license: shareware"Reminds you to take a break from the computer once in a while". Can show a window, play a sound, or play a QuickTime movie. (Except that, while there might perhaps once have been a version of QuickTime that worked on the Mac Plus, I don't see any sign of it now.) For System "6.0.5" or later.
copyright: Thomas Reed
mod date: Aug 29, 2001
license: freewareDesigned to prevent repetitive stress injuries by "making the user take periodic breaks". It doesn't just remind you, it prevents you from using the computer. Requires System 7. After the break is over, it may give an error message when trying to play a sound and then quit. But there is an option to turn off this sound, and then the program seems to work.
copyright: Rocco Moliterno, Yellowsoft
mod date: Jul 31, 1999
license: sharewareThe "ultimate alias manager". For System 7.
copyright: Maurice Volaski
mod date: Sep 8, 1995
license: shareware"Enables your Macintosh to automatically delete all the alias files associated with an original file when the original file is emptied from the Trash." For System 7.
copyright: Maurice Volaski
mod date: Jun 28, 1995
license: freeware"Allows users to peek at a Macintosh's list of open files. It also provides information about these files on demand and can close ones that aren't crucial to system operation. Finally, when using System 6, it allows the maximum number of open files to be changed".
copyright: Flux Software
mod date: Feb 3, 1997
license: shareware"Enables your Macintosh to keep the Finder Get Info comments from being erased when the desktop is rebuilt under versions of MacOS prior to 7.5.3. It also permits them to be viewed in the Open File dialogs and edited in the Save File dialogs." Requires System 7.
copyright: Clay Maeckel
mod date: Nov 20, 1996
license: shareware"This control panel allows you to replace your standard desktop patterns with color or black & white pictures". For "System 7.0 or higher".
copyright: Bruno Di Gleria
mod date: May 16, 1998
license: shareware"Display/print a list of your TrueType™, PostScript™ and bitmapped fonts", "without installing them", and formatted "using editable templates". For "system 7.0 or greater".
copyright: Bruno Di Gleria
mod date: Mar 7, 1997
license: PostcardWareA "FKEY management utility. It allows you to easily install/copy/rename/remove/get info about an FKEY using drag & drop facilities. Five usefull FKEYs are included". "requires at least System 7.5".
copyright: Peirce Software
mod date: Apr 28, 1996
license: shareware"Allows you to modify an application's MultiFinder memory partition size as you launch it." "Tested with System software versions 6.08, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.5."
copyright: Fabrizio Oddone
mod date: Aug 26, 1996
license: shareware"Lets you correctly get rid of those space and time wasting custom icons". For "System 7 or later".
copyright: Fabrizio Oddone
mod date: Oct 1, 1999
license: sharewareErase, Verify, or Duplicate Floppy Disks. Mostly this isn't too useful for an emulated machine. For example, instead of copying disks, you can just duplicate a disk image in the host os. But it does have the ability to erase a disk with a percent or two more free space than normal, when only a few files will be placed on the disk. For "System 7 or later".
Archiving Software
copyright: SPDsoft
mod date: Sep 14, 1999
license: GPLMacintosh port of Jean-loup Gailly's gzip. Compresses single files and uncompresses. This format is common on Unix systems, usually combined with the "tar" format for archiving multiple files. MacGZip does not include handling of "tar" format, a separate program is needed, such as MacTar. It can preserve the extra information of a Macintosh file with MacBinary, but this format is not portable. Requires at least System 7.
copyright: David Phillip Oster
mod date: Jul 27, 2003
license: freewareDecodes "yEnc encoded files, such as are used on usenet newsgroups." Source code is available.
copyright: Gabriele de Simone
mod date: Oct 10, 1996
license: freeware"Removes StuffIt comments from any StuffIt archive", so as to avoid getting "additional SimpleText files when an archive that contains comments is decompressed with Stuffit Expander".
Other General Interest
copyright: Michael Everest
mod date: Apr 28, 1996
license: sharewareA "full featured drawing application", for "System 6.07 or later".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Mar 7, 2001
license: sharewareAn "address book that will make keeping track of contacts, dialing the phone, printing envelopes, and more so easy!" You can "access your address book instantly from within any application!" For System "7 on up".
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Jan 2, 2001
license: sharewareA calendar accessible with user definable Hot Keys from any application. Set appointments and record notes. For System "7 on up".
Astronomy
copyright: Eldacur Technologies
mod date: Nov 22, 2004
license: freewareA "random solar system generator". Use the '-t' option to produce text only output (for example, type '-t' into command window, and click ok). Otherwise, output goes into the folder "html". This version is by Jim Burrows of Eldacur Technologies, but it "owes a lot to many different precursors written by several authors over the years." Source code is available.
Other
copyright: Diana and David Eppstein
mod date: Dec 11, 1997
license: sharewareFor "maintaining databases of family history and other genealogical information."
copyright: Bradley D. Mohr, Eugene W. Stark
mod date: Apr 14, 1996
license: freeware, former sharewareA "GEDCOM-to-HTML conversion program". GEDCOM is a format for genealogical information. "Requires System 7.0 or higher."
copyright: John V. Holder
mod date: Apr 10, 1999
license: sharewareAssists in "creating an index for a book". For System 7.
copyright: Rustle Laidman
mod date: Oct 14, 1996
license: sharewareFor "creating standalone documents" with "WEB browser appearance", containing styled text, pictures, sound, hyperlinks. "System 6 or later".
copyright: Rustle Laidman
mod date: Oct 12, 1995
license: sharewareFor creating simple standalone slide shows of images or text. A sound can be attach to each slide.
copyright: Owen Baxter
mod date: Mar 28, 2001
license: freewareA "program designed to handle all aspects of administering student data, especially exam and assignment marks".
copyright: Michigan Space Grant Consortium
mod date: Apr 13, 1993
license: freewareDetermines whether the glider you design will fly, and if not, explains why. By Michael F. Kamprath. For "System 7.0 or greater".
copyright: Dave Warker
mod date: Dec 28, 1997
license: freeware"Drifts snowflakes down the screen accompanied by the gentle sound of sleigh bells and music". But there is no music without QuickTime.
copyright: Charles O. HartmanOctober 25, 2004
mod date: Feb 11, 1996
license: ?"Generates syntactically correct English sentences, whose structure and vocabulary are both randomized." Source code is included. For "system software version 7.1 or later."
Games
I've updated the entries for "The Fool's Errand", "At the Carnival", and "3 in Three", to show that the license is freeware. Thanks to Cliff Johnson for sending this information.
copyright: David Harris
mod date: Feb 2, 1994
license: former shareware, later versions GPL"design and program robot gladiators, then pit them against each other". Source code is available for later versions, which however don't work on the Macintosh Plus.
September 12, 2004
Games
copyright: Simone Bettini
mod date: Jul 13, 1996
license: free for non-commercial useA simple maze game for young children. You can customize it with your own animations and sounds.
copyright: Simone Bettini
mod date: Apr 28, 1996
license: free for non-commercial useA "classic Invaders game, close to the original arcade game", "based on sample program for Ingemar Ragnemalm's Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT)." For "system 6.0.7 or later". In system 6, the initial help dialog goes off the edge of the screen, but otherwise the program works fine.
copyright: Dan Velleman
mod date: Jan 6, 1998
license: free for non-commercial use"Simulates a four-dimensional version of Rubik's cube". Also includes Cube, which simulates the standard 3 dimensional version.
System Utilities
copyright: Michael F. Kamprath
mod date: Jul 26, 1997
license: shareware"Secure deletion utility".
Math
copyright: John Brochu
mod date: Nov 8, 2001
license: shareware"Full-featured replacement for Apple's standard Calculator DA." Includes about anything imaginable for a conventional calculator, such as scientific functions, binary math, "paper tape" window, and RPN mode. For "System 6.0.5 up to and including OS 9.1".
copyright: Dan Velleman
mod date: Mar 16, 1995
license: free for non-commercial use"Writes outlines of proofs in elementary set theory, under the guidance of the user. It is designed to help students learn to write proofs". Dan Velleman requested (9/20/2004) mention that an applet version (Java) is also available.
Other
copyright: Ron Lichty
mod date: Dec 24, 2000
license: shareware"Meant to be launched on daily startup, to remind you of the important birthdays and anniversaries". Requires "system software version 6.0.4 or later".
copyright: Isis Innovation Ltd.
mod date: Feb 1, 1995
license: free demo for commercial product"For the analysis of radio-tracking and other locational data", of animals. By Ian Todd.
copyright: InfoSignal Inc.
mod date: Dec 25, 2001
license: free demo for commercial product"Used by many researchers for analyzing human speech, non-human communication and music, and is also capable of analyzing kinematic signals." By Eric Keller Ph.D.
Received response (9/20/2004) that full version remains available - "Signalyze 3.12 is available from Agora Language Marketplace: office@agoralang.com."