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Mac OS 9 Essential Applications

What applications do you consider essential for a fully functional Mac OS 9.2.2 system? This can obviously be parametrized many ways, so I'll elaborate a bit. I'm interested in your opinions, though, so feel free to derail my suggestions at any point.

By "essential," I'm getting as those infrastructural applications that make the rest of the system work better for whatever specific use you make of your classic Mac. For example, StuffIt comes immediately to mind. Specifically, Stuffit Deluxe 5.5 as it seems to be era-appropriate for Mac OS 9, and is a relatively stable version. Your opinion may differ, and I would be interested to hear it.

Here are some other other candidates:

  • Classilla 9.3.2 (or newer)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5
  • QuickTime 6.0.3
  • ResEdit 2.1.3
  • Thursby DAVE 6.2
  • Toast Titanium 5.0.2

Other favorites, that I might not consider essential, but I nonetheless would not want to work without:

  • American Heritage English Dictionary
  • NumberCrunch

What general use application must you have on your Mac?

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For me (besides the basic ones like stuffit, Excel, Acrobat, etc..) would be :
File Maker pro3 (can´t live without this one)
Wordperfect
Toast
Docmaker
Spreadsheet 2000 (very useful)
Photoshop 4

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Toast 5!!!
Kaleidoscope + good themes.
Photoshop 7/Illustrator 10
BBedit
PovRay
Cinema 4D
Office 2001
iTunes 2.02
Quicktime Pro
Audacity 1.0
Classilla 9.2.3 (works better for many sites than the newer ones)
MDK
Deus Ex
Black & White
Duke Nukem 3D (+ Duke-it-Out in DC)
Shadow Warrior
Warcraft II: BNE
Starcraft + Expansion
Tomb Raider I & II Gold

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Don't think there's anything new in mine -
FileMaker Pro / Dev 5 or 5.5
Alpha - a good programming text editor
Office 2001

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P.S, FinderPop is a MUST Have for both OS9 and OSX!!!!!

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Interesting. Is there a version of FinderPop that works on OS 9 available somewhere?

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OS 9 here: http://www.fnarr.net/old-finderpop/index.html
OSX here: http://www.finderpop.com/FP246.zip

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For 7 me the list would include the tools needed to accomplish the common tasks.
The list of common tasks (from my view anyway) are:

  • Text Editing.
  • Word Processing.
  • Digital Electronics Design and Simulation.
  • Programming (68k & PowerPC Assembly, Pascal, BASIC, and a little C).
  • FTP transfers.
  • Resource, and Data Fork editing.
  • E-Mail.
  • Web Browsing.
  • Document viewing (especially for references).
  • System Maintenance & diagnostic.
  • Graphics design.

Unfortunately no one has ported an KHTML/WebKit based web browser yet.

As such for me the list of essentials is:

  • Resedit v2.1.3 (With all the extras installed).
  • Hex Edit v1.1.
  • BBEdit.
  • Think Pascal v4.5.
  • MPW.
  • Fantasm.
  • MACS Bug.
  • MacFlow.
  • DigSim.
  • MacBreadBoard (actually can be useful sometimes).
  • Small DSO (and the associated ADB HardWare).
  • MacPaint.
  • NIH Image.
  • Grphics Converter.
  • CricketDraw.
  • Apple Document Viewer.
  • Adobe Acrobat.
  • MacWrite.
  • Fetch.
  • Eudora.
  • Classilla (Latest).
  • Netscape 7 (For sites that Classilla has trouble with).
  • Norton Utilities.
  • TechTool Pro.
  • Toast.
  • MacLHA.
  • MacZip.
  • Stuffit Suite.
  • AfterDark (never use the Energy Saver features of Mac SSW/OS).
  • Mini vMac

And I would apply this list to any PowerPC Macintosh computer (as they all require at least Macintosh SSW 7.1), with the exception of Classilla (requires Mac OS 8.5 or newer).