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2011, April 2 - 3:30am

PowerPup

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Taking Requests: PowerPup's software collection.

I'm PowerPup, been a Mac user since I was six. And because of that plus having several siblings, I have a lot of software available for sharing. But since there is so much and spring quarter is starting on the 5th for me, I thought I'd find out if there were any programs in particular people would like me to upload first. (I do plan to eventually get it all uploaded.)

The list is organized by Publisher, I will be uploading them all in the archival format recommended by MCP's Old Mac Archive website. More will be added to the list as I find them from storage. If there are any issues that would prevent me from uploading any of the mentioned software (like the case for Maxis games,) please inform me.

Link to mediafire mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/powerpuparchive

Adobe:

Adobe PageMill 3.0

Ashton-Tate:

FullWrite Professional 1.1

Berkley Systems:

After Dark 4.0 Deluxe (Hybrid CD)

Davidson:

MatherBlaster Ages 9-12

Edmark:

Kid Desk: Family Edition (An "At Ease" clone. Floppys)
Thinkin' Things 1 (Floppys)
Thinkin' Things 2
Thinkin' Things 3 CD

GT Interactive:

The Smelly Mystery: Starring Little Mercer Mayer's Little Monster Private Eye

HarperCollins Interactive

Adventure Bible Handbook: The Rescue

Humongous Entertainment:

Freddi Fish: And The Case of The Missing Kelp Seeds
Humongous Classic Collection CD, contains:
Putt-Putt joins the parade
Putt-Putt goes to the moon
Fatty Bear's birthday surprize
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Putt-Putt Travels Through Time
Putt-Putt and Pep's Dog on a Stick
Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama
Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo
SPY Fox in Cheese Chase

Mattel Media:

Mother Goose's Farm 4 Learning (four disc collection)

Reading Mouse Entertainment:

Ocean Explorers
Zoo Explorers

SoftKey:

Museum Madness
Number Munchers
Super Munchers
The Otter's Adventure
Troggle Trouble Math
Word Muncher

The Learning Company:

Reader Rabbit's Ready for Letters (Floppys)

I'll probably do 3 or so requested programs over the weekend, and after School starts on the 5th maybe 1 or 2 a week.

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2011, April 2 - 3:46pm

IIGS_User

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If there are any issues that would prevent me from uploading any of the mentioned software (like the case for Maxis games,) please inform me.

I would take a look to Amazon.com or other places whether they're available in new condition. When sold by third-party sellers off Amazon, they're OK to be uploaded here.

Already available at this site:
Number, Super & Word Munchers

If Win&Mac version is in your database, please make sure to upload both, usually as a hybrid CD ROM file.

I think your Hasbro Interactive Scrabble (Win & Mac) entry is also already here:
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/scrabble-cd-rom

2011, April 3 - 2:42pm

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if you could prioritise the Thinkin Things, that would be brill

And i know we've had this conversation before but the living books are still sold as new all over the place, they really should be kept off, ontop of that i would put cash on there being further legal complications with the copyright of Dr Seuss content

2011, April 2 - 5:47pm

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Here is a list of rare word processors that have not been uploaded to MacGarden yet. Maybe you have some of them:

WorldWrite (the only Unicode Word Processor for Mac OS classic)

FrameMaker (old versions before v7.0 which is on MacGarden)

FullWrite Dictionaries (FullWrite is available on the web without international dicitionaries)

Nisus Writer Dictionaries (Nisus does not sell them anymore and I have never ever seen them being offered second hand anywhere for sale)

StarOffice for Mac OS 9

papyrus for Mac OS 9

VivaPress Pro serial German and US (German Viva Press installer is uploaded here but serial is not available on the web)

WinText by WinSoft

MindWrite

MacPublisher

RagTime 5 with dictionaries (on MacGarden is only RagTime Solo/Privat without dictionaries)

Interleaf Publisher

Ventura Publisher Gold

2011, April 3 - 6:52am

PowerPup

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Already available at this site:
Number, Super & Word Munchers

Yeah, but I thought I'd add them in case someone was interested in the iso. MCP told me about scrabble & x-wing already being here too.
I've removed the Dr. Suess and Disney software. (Just to be safe.)

@xy: I do happen to have a boxed copy (box isn't in the greatest condition, found it at a goodwill,) of FullWrite Professional v1.1. But never had a Mac old enough to run it. (Guess its time I setup an emulator to test it.) I'm not sure what condition the disks are in. So I may or may not be able to archive it.

Update: I've added Thinkn' Things Collection 1 and FullWrite Professional 1.1 to Macintosh Garden.
FullWrite Professional 1.1
Thinkn' Things Collection 1

2011, April 3 - 6:59am

IIGS_User

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Already available at this site:
Number, Super & Word Munchers

Yeah, but I thought I'd add them in case someone was interested in the iso.

Your thoughts are right. Images of an original media are always welcome to replace the floating file/folder collections.

2011, April 4 - 4:41am

PowerPup

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I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to rip a hybrid CD, (Thinkn' Things Collection 3.) What is the recommended method for archiving such CDs?

2011, April 4 - 8:18am

24bit

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You may want to read this thread started by Protocol7:
http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/how-make-a-proper-copy-of-a-cd-sharing-...
Thank you, for your effort and your uploads.

2011, April 4 - 2:13pm

IIGS_User

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Thanks, 24bit, for this link, this is a good starting point to create CD images.
Toast is a good starting point to create them, but be sure to enable 'older' settings in Toast, to get the HFS Standard file format, rather than HFS+, which is mostly not used for commercial CD-ROMs.
Toast 5, av here, should work with this 'older' setting by default, I believe.

2011, April 4 - 9:25pm

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PowerPup

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Thanks 24bit & IIGS_User!

Thinkn' Things Collection 3 has been added.

2011, April 7 - 4:06pm

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PowerPup

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Yeah, I'll have that uploaded in a few days, sometime around the weekend.

2011, April 7 - 7:31pm

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Temporary Joe

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I actually uploaded Thinkin Things 1 to my own Mediafire archive (and a few other specimens), but I haven't worked in it in a while. Plus, I don't know if I archived it correctly (I might've done Mac partition only)

The Smelly Mystery is another one of the applications I played in elementary school. I don't think I ever finished it, but I'd like to see it again. However, it's a little weird to me trying to play a game I haven't seen in 12 years.

I love Macintosh Garden. It helps me reconnect with old software.

2011, April 8 - 5:32am

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PowerPup

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KidDesk Family Edition is now on Macintosh Garden.

I'll add screenshots later.

2011, April 8 - 10:59am

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Fortuna Wave

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Did your Humongous Entertainment games set is hybrid PC/Mac?

2011, April 9 - 7:56am

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PowerPup

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Yes, all the Humongous Entertainment CDs are hybrids, and I can upload them as hybrids.

2011, April 9 - 5:12pm

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IIGS_User

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Hybrid CD images are always welcome!

2011, April 22 - 7:30am

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Fortuna Wave

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Can you upload it all?

2011, April 23 - 3:55am

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PowerPup

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All the Humongous Entertainment CDs? Yeah, I can upload them all... is there any particular one or two you would like me to upload first?

2011, May 10 - 9:55am

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The whole collection would be great! Used to own all these titles as a kid, I dont have any requests really. Would it be possible to do so? If its not too much

Cheers.

2011, June 22 - 5:37am

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President People

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Been looking for Reader Rabbit's Ready for Letters for ages! I remember playing it when I was just a little president. I also have some younger siblings who'd get enjoyment out of it.

I also remember playing a Museum Madness demo on some Club Kidsoft disc thingy. It'll be cool playing the full version.

2011, August 17 - 1:17pm

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zykix22

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Hey, may you upload Reader Rabbit's Ready for Letters please?

2011, August 17 - 7:32pm

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PowerPup

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Oops, looks like I've been neglecting this topic... Anyway, I'll try to get Reader Rabbit upload in a day or two.

2011, August 17 - 9:23pm

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zykix22

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Thank you then!

2011, August 18 - 8:16pm

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PowerPup

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Reader Rabbit's ready for Letters is now uploaded. I'll make a MG page for it later.

2011, August 18 - 8:33pm

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Temporary Joe

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Do you have the Reader Rabbit where he's located in a newspaper office, or is that Ready for Letters?

2011, August 18 - 10:23pm

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PowerPup

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No, Reader Rabbit Ready for Letters is where he's at his grandparent's house. I don't have any of the other Reader Rabbit games.

There's some boxart pics on the amazon.com page.

2012, August 22 - 1:22am

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Hey I have a request for you.....

It's the EA*Kids Creative Reader Collection

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_sacat=0&_nkw=Creative%20Reader%...

You should buy that and when you get it, you should make a CD image and put it on your mediafire account.

2012, August 22 - 1:46am

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devils_advisor

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jesus you post in everywhere the same thing. why dont you go ahead and buy it. quit telling everybody what they need to buy.

2012, August 22 - 2:02am

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anabate123

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All right, then I'll stop telling them! And I can't buy it, because I don't own a real Macintosh.

2012, August 22 - 6:42am

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Fortuna Wave

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anabate123, if you don't own the real Macintosh, then try using emulators such as Basilisk II and Sheepshaver. Also, you need to search ROMs from the internet.