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Appearance Addons for "Appearance Manager"
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Download appearanceaddons.sit
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For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS 9
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS 9
A complete set of Themes for Mac OS 8/9 using the "Appearance Manager". No Kaleidoscope Needed!
For a OSX'ish look, check it out the "Aqua" and "Liquid" themes. Those ones are based in the first versions of Mac OS X.
If you want to check a partial look of the NeXTSTEP OS, take a look to the "NeXTheme".
If you like the simple paradigms, "Paper" and "Drawing Board" are the ones for you.
QuickTime 4 and Sherlock 2 looks so good because of its brushed metal interface. Try to test it out the "QLike" and "QT4 Modoki" themes if your system looks better with those products.
Mac OS 7 is calling to your nostalgia? Use "Mac OS 7" and "Mac OS 7 (No Icons)"
(In our iHearts we know "the name" is incorrect, but let's avoid Copyright problems).
Would you like Mac OS do a Windows 98 display? Let "Win Doze 98" make the work for you.
As a bonus, the "Liquid" sound-scheme" is included here.
Curiously, in the package comes a theme called "Drawing Board", created inside Apple Computer. It makes the Macintosh looks like a sketch of the Operative System. "Hi-Tech" and "Gizmo" are not included here, it will be added in the next few days.
I don't remember where I found this, just I want to upload here because it looks too good.
See Also: 40 Mac OS 8-9 Themes
CompatibilityArchitecture: PPC
For Mac OS 8/9 with Appearance Manager installed.
Requires Mac OS 8.5 and later. These Themes were not officially released with 8.5, so YMMV
Comments
Its not possible to use a newer Appearance Manager Control Panel with Mac OS 8.1 or earlier. With the 8.1 and earlier Appearance Manager software, the UI part consisted of a Control Panel and the System component is in the form of a System Extension.
From the unreleased 8.2 and later Mac OS's, the Appearance Manager System libraries were incorporated into the OS. There is no Extension file for the newer Appearance Manager, and libraries the newer Control Panel require are not available in the older Appearance Manager System Extension or OS.
OK, I haven't done it, but in theory, is possible to use the Modern Appearance Manager Control Panel copying the necessary files from the modern system to the old one.
But in the other side, it could be problems between 680x0 and PPC code of the Control Panel. I haven't tested yet.
I don't think they do, despite what it says above in the description fields. Pretty sure you need 8.5 and newer. The 8.1 and earlier Appearance Manager's don't know about or use an "Appearance" folder to hold Themes & Sound sets.
[Edit] A good alternative is Kaleidescope which can be be used with pre-OS 8 OS's.
How do these work in Mac OS 7 and versions of OS 8 prior to 8.2? The 8.1 Appearance control panel doesn't have the ability to select a theme.
Edit: Sorry, due to external robots changed 'xxx 7' to 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User
Well done, I did build up a collection of these many years ago, and I remember a Star Wars sound set. I'll see what I can find in a scan of my disktracker library.
nil0bject, thanks for the piece of information. Effectively, the name of the Beta theme is "Drawing Board" and not "Paper". Just a little mistake, sorry.
Is paper the same as drawing board? I seem to remember the paper theme as well, but not drawing board.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appearance_Manager:
"Apple widely demonstrated two Appearance Themes which override Apple Platinum, Hi-Tech and Gizmo. Hi-Tech is based on a shades-of-black color scheme that made the interface look like a contemporary piece of audio-visual equipment. Gizmo is a "kids" interface, using lots of bright colors and "wiggly" interface elements. Both changed every single element of the overall GUI leaving no trace of Apple Platinum. A third theme was later introduced, Drawing Board, developed at Apple Japan. This theme uses elements that make the interface look like it has been drawn in pencil on a drafting-board, including small "pencil marks" around the windows, a barely visible graph paper grid on the desktop, and "squarish" elements with low contrast. Although none of these themes were included with a released version of Mac OS, the files can be copied from the pre-release versions that contained them and be successfully used on retail versions."