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Architecture: PPC
40 Mac OS 8-9 Themes
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Download 40_mac_os_8-9_themes.sit
(6.25 MB)
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS 9
40 Themes for Mac OS 8 to 9. Select and drag all to system folder this will automatically put them in the right place.
See Also: Garden page Appearance Addons for "Appearance Manager"
CompatibilityArchitecture: PPC
Requires Mac OS 8.5 and later. These Themes were not officially released with 8.5, so YMMV
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The themes may not support Japanese file and folder names out-of-the-box, BUT I just found the "Fonts" tab on the Appearance control panel. Setting the Finder font to one that supports Japanese, like "Osaka" (My home town! Yay!), fixes it right up.
I'm bumping my rating of this up a little.
@Protocol 7: There are two very interesting-looking Drawing Board themes, but unfortunately neither displays Japanese characters correctly. However, I did find one theme in this collection that could handle Japanese: NexTheme.
@papa: If the archive includes Drawing Board try that one. It was made by Apple Japan so that one at least should display correctly.
Cute, but when I apply these themes to a Japanese environment (OS J1-9.2.2), Japanese text in file and folder names is garbled.
Thanks!
Been looking for this...
@Protocol 7: there is a "Mac OS 8.2 d8 (Mac OS 8 beta)" here, but I don't know if this is do-able on 68k Mac, "soudesune" says he couldn't get it onto BII (I haven't tried it for myself). Not everything introduced with the stable 8.1 worked on 68k Mac either - booting from a HFS+ drive and some 3rd party contextual menu plug-ins come to mind.
@MikeTomTom: many thanks. I originally downloaded these using OS10.4 which seems to have taken the "file type" tags off. Reading your text, I downloaded again using XP and then transfered to OS8.5, filetype tags are good. Then I transfer to OS9 to use Stuffit 5 and that did the trick. Stuffit 4.5 says corruption. Phew!
Once again - wow these are really good! There seems to be so much really good software for these old Macs.
8.2 introduced theme support and IIRC it runs in Basilisk II (I'm sure I had 8.2a2 running before Sheepshaver got ported to Windows). As it was the first version of the engine it might have some bugs but I think it handled some of the 8.5+ themes OK.
@wazeem: Works for me. DL'd from the main top link (amazonaws). Unstuffs correctly with Stuffit Expander version 5.5 - no need for FileTyper, just dragged the ".sit" file onto icon of the Expander and it launches & extracts it OK.
I downloaded the file from amazonaws and it inflates fine with The Unarchiver or Stuffit5 on a classic Mac (emulator).
Can anyone confirm this archive (sit) is valid? I have downloaded both versions of the file and Stuffit says corrupted file and cannot use
- I used FileTyper to give the file same types as sit files that open but alas in my OS8.5 - can't un-stuff. What version of Stuffit is needed?
There are some very good themes in this archive. I had read about them years ago but until now hadn't been able to try them out. Similar to Kaleidoscope & they work well with the host OS. Thanks.
[Edit] tho' AFAIK, Macintosh Themes are only supported on OS 8.5 - 9.2.2, which would negate their use on Basilisk II (just tried on B-II, Mac OS 8.1 and there doesn't appear to be any way to use the themes on this OS) - Still, perfectly fine on PPC Mac OS 8.5 and later and SheepShaver.