Favourite app, utility, control panel or extension.

[equill]

YMMV may vary, of course, but I found the WriteNow Enhancer to add little to WriteNow that I had not learnt to do from the keyboard in 15-odd (then) years. I rarely experienced software conflicts in my 68K and Old World Macs, through a combination of upkeep and sparing addition of 'foreign' software, so I was not happy to find WNE tripping WN over, frequently enough to get me to erase it from my system (OS 9.0.4 at the time).

There is a striking enough resemblance between the GUIs of WriteNow and Mariner Write to make one think that here is what WriteNow might have become, had it been permitted to live.

de

 

[Thol]

Thanks for the insight. The same thing occured to me. But at least he is on the right side.

I won't have any issues because am going to make the 3400 a dedicated word processor with a bare system (possibley 8.1, if not I'll stay with 8.6) WN, Word and maybe Mariner which I have yet to purchase. I may use my PB-150 instead. I have the soldering pencil heating and the PB in pieces on the floor as I write.

 

[blackbird]

BasicBlack

 

[Thol]

BasicBlack! Intriguing ... or is it the same thing as I am guessing. I do not know this App or Extension. Please describe it. Cheers — Thol.

 

[Bunsen]

I also used to use a utility that allowed an FPU to be emulated on Macs that didn't have an FPU /

That would be SoftFPU

 

[CaryMG]

SoundMaster!!! I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that one yet !

That's my pick !

Which leads me to .... > "What's Your StartUp Sound ?"

:b&w:

 

[Dan 7.1]

ummm for me that would be Parallels 3, Growl and iCalViewer. and MenuMeters. and Synergy. and Adium.

 

[blackbird]

BasicBlack is a nifty little screen saver.

BasicBlack! Intriguing ... or is it the same thing as I am guessing. I do not know this App or Extension. Please describe it. Cheers — Thol.

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

After Dark

 

[Bunsen]

InformINIT

 

[caryn]

Well I have to say...ok, I **want** to say---what is there to be gained by taking a single document through what appears to be a four-stage process, just to publish it? The effort seems wasted to me.

For professional documents---and a Thesis is certainly a Professional Document---there are powerful 68k applications like FrameMaker that permit the work to be done once, up-front, and then simply written. In fact, one might blame applications like FrameMaker, or the post-processing app PageMager, for the bloating up of apps like Word and Word Perfect into the monsters they became. FYI, Apple wrote it's technical manuals from 1985 using MS-Word on a Macintosh (with a brief intrusion of the Lisa in an attempt to make that White Elephant useful).

FrameMaker is certainly overkill for term papers, letters, &c, but it (or a program like it) is a logical choice for a document with footnotes, and index, a bibliography, figures, tables, and illustrations, &c. The amount of labour that went into using a simple WP for a task for which it was not designed and ill-suited is curious.

Moreover, I'm not exactly sure why all these steps were needed. Is the beloved WP not WYSIWYG? Were the other steps needed to add all the essential elements, like the footnotes, the index, &c?

The Mac ruled---some would say created---the desktop publishing world in the 1980s and 1990, until the advent of OS/X. It seems to me slightly absurd to go through such contortions to produce a desktop document on the best desktop document production machine ever built.

 

[Bunsen]

SpeedDoubler and RAM Doubler.

Deck II - realtime multichannel audio mixing with effects on 68k/PPC at a tiny fraction of the cost of ProTools, and without having to purchase Digidesign's overpriced (or indeed any) audio cards.

 

[Morrick]

HyperCard above all.

Other favourites include: DOCMaker, TypeStyler, Claris Emailer, MacLinkPlus, WordPerfect, WriteNow, the ever useful ResEdit, TomeViewer, InformINIT and GURU (GUide to Ram Updates), FileBuddy, the FWB Utilities, and -- why not? -- TattleTech.

(I surely left out something, but oh well)

Cheers

Rick

 

[porter]

MPW

Including ToolServer.

I wrote a "telnetd" that used MacTCP, did formal user authentication and exchanged stdin, stdout and stderr with ToolServer.

 

[register]

On a vintage mac I never want to miss this:

PopChar, great enhancement to the use of any keyboard (still available for OS X)

Copy-Paste, the way a clipboard should be organised (also still available, but the current approach is not as convincing as the original was - CopyPaste X is overkill, in my opinion)

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Something pretty funny was the extension PowerOrgasm (sound stolen from "Harry and Sally"). On a running PowerBook, just plug in the power connector …

 

[dbraverman88]

1. Word 5.1a.

2. Perl

4. MacScheme

5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

6. Anything else written by Infocom.

--David

 

[caryn]

Snitch, IPNetTuner, Joliet Volume Access, Solitaire Till Dawn (so much so, I actually paid for them all...at least once...).

 

[equill]

DiskWarrior, in all incarnations from 2.1.1 to 3.0.3 (so far), for disk directory management and rescue.

Silverlining, 5.8.3, 6.2.1, 6.3.1, 6.4.5, 6.5.4, 6.5.8; good for Systems 6.0.8 to 10.4.11 (with Classic OS 9) for drive management.

SuperDuper! 2.5, for incremental backups and cloning system installations.

Parenting Macs is more about husbandry than favouritism.

de

 

[benjgvps]

Liteswitch http://main.system7today.com/software/liteswitch.html It is command tab for classic Macs. Really handy on a PowerBook.

 

[aphetica]

I think the one thing I look at most besides Safari and the Finder is a widget called iStat Pro.

It's the first place I check when my machine starts acting strangely.