Macintosh Garden - Aldus

Aldus Fetch

mrdav — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:17:19 +0000

Application file:

Aldus_Fetch_1.2.sit

This application is a file-management tool designed for working with mixed media. Images, movies, sounds, and text can be cataloged in a common visual catalog, then viewed, edited, copied and retrieved from the catalog and transferred to other documents. (WorldCat)

The download expands to a folder. It does not include disc images.

Compatibility:

SSW 6 - Mac OS 9

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Year released:

1993

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

Aldus PressWise 1.0

macjames — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:25:58 +0000

Application file:

aldus_presswise.sit

You're a commercial printer, service bureau, color trade shop, or publisher. You work with Aldus PageMaker or QuarkXPress files every day and output them to high-resolution PostScript devices. More important, you know that to stay competitive in this business means offering new services as well as quality production. It also means you need Aldus PressWise, the newest generation of production imposition software for the Macintosh.

Compatibility:

To run this demo you'll need:
System 6.0.5 or later (7.0 compatible)
Recommended Macintosh II series or Quadra 700 or 900 computer, 2MB of RAM, and 80MB hard disk.
Minimum: Macintosh Classic, 1MB of RAM, and a hard disk
Output device: most PostScript-compatible devices

Category:

Word Processing & Publishing

Author:

Aldus

Year released:

1992

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Architecture:

68k

Aldus Gallery Effects Vol. 1

MikeTomTom — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:42:33 +0000

Application file:

aldus-gallery-effects-1.sit

This is Volume 1 of the Aldus Gallery Effects, plug-ins and tools, version 1.0, a set of four 800k floppy disk images. "Disk 1" contains the "Aldus Installer/Utility" which you need to double click to install, optionally up to seven file groups. These are:

Gallery Effects DA will install the Gallery Effects desk accessory, a GE Pouch folder containing the preferences file (GE Prefs), a set of SuperPaint effects in a Classic Art SP folder, and an Image Controls folder that contains the Brightness & Contrast controls as well as the Color Balance controls.

Compatibility:

The Gallery Effects plugins are compatible with Digital Darkroom, Photoshop 1.0 & 2.0 & SuperPaint 3.x. The Photoshop plugins seem to work just fine in Photoshop 3, 4 & 5, also.

The main top (2.57 MB) Download are in Disk Copy 4.2 format. Reconstructed from the "DropBox" link above. I did this, to remove hidden OS X files & folders from the "DropBox" disk image set (which are in ShrinkWrap 3.5 format). Also to create a more backwards compatible with SSW 6, file set, archived using Stuffit 3.6
MD5 checksum & filename: 694fd9fcd760aa73c96874cc6bcef59f *aldus-gallery-effects-1.sit

These plugins will run in Mini vMac, but are only suitable for use in the experimental Mac II color version of Mini vMac.

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Silicon Beach Software

Year released:

1991

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

Aldus Personal Press 2.0.2

grawlix.computing — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 03:26:18 +0000

Application file:

aldus_personal_press_2.0.2.sit

Aldus acquired Personal Press, as well as other great titles like SuperPaint and SuperCard, when it bought out Silicon Beach Software in 1990. It was renamed Adobe Home Publisher when Aldus and Adobe merged in 1994.

Compatibility:

System Requirements

Any Macintosh with 2 megabytes of RAM.
System 6.0.3 and Finder 6.1 or later versions.
A hard drive and one 800K floppy drive.
Personal Press 2.0 is SSW 7 savvy.

Aldus Persuasion 2.12

mrdav — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:31:52 +0000

Application file:

aldus_persuasion_2.1.sit

Aldus Persuasion was a presentation program similar to PowerPoint. It was acquired by Adobe in 1994, when the two companies merged. Adobe discontinued production from September 1997. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

The download consists of six Disk Copy 4.2 images compressed with StuffIt 4.

Category:

Business & Productivity

Author:

Aldus

Year released:

1992

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation:

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

presenting_persuasion_2.1.pdf

Aldus Digital Darkroom 2 (German)

bmonno — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:58:38 +0000

Application file:

digital_darkroom_2.0_d_1990.sit

Digital Darkroom was an innovative Apple Macintosh graphics program for editing gray-scale photos. It was published by Silicon Beach Software in 1987.
Digital Darkroom was the first Macintosh program to incorporate a plug-in architecture. Silicon Beach and Ed Bomke are credited with having coined the term "plug-in".
Another innovation of Digital Darkroom was the Magic Wand tool, which also appeared later in Photoshop.

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Silicon Beach Software

Year released:

1990

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Emulation:

Basilisk II (68k)

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

Aldus PageMaker 5 (German)

bmonno — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:05:19 +0000

Application file:

pagemaker_5_d_1993.sit

PageMaker was one of the first desktop publishing programs, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, for the then-new Apple Macintosh. PageMaker relies on Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language, and in 1994 Adobe Systems acquired Aldus and PageMaker.
As an application relying on a graphical user interface, PageMaker helped to popularize the Macintosh platform.
Version 1.2 for Macintosh was released in 1986 and added support for PostScript fonts built into LaserWriter Plus or downloaded to the memory of other output devices. Version 3 for Macintosh was shipped in April 1988.

Category:

Word Processing & Publishing

Author:

Aldus

Year released:

1993

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

Aldus PageMaker 3.x Pub Converter

24bit — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:51:47 +0000

Application file:

pm3_converter.sit

I think this is a utility to convert PM3 files to PM5.
Never used it, found it on the attic.
Archive contains three DC4.2 images from 800k disks.

Category:

Word Processing & Publishing

Author:

Aldus

Year released:

1993

Aldus SuperPaint 3.5

WalMart 68k — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:15:26 +0000

Application file:

aldussuperpaint3.5.sit

The photo editing software from Aldus, a company that Adobe Publishing bought out to add more usefulness out of Photo Shop. I had grown up using this program in stead of Mac Paint. I would recommend using Sheep Shaver and Mac OS 8 for this program as well as 128,000KB of system memory to run this as a full blown photo editor.

There earlier Silicon Beach versions of SuperPaint may be found here.

Compatibility:

68k
PowerPC

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Aldus

Year released:

1993

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

PPC

Aldus FreeHand 4.0

MikeTomTom — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:14:08 +0000

Application file:

afh-4-inst.sit

afh_4_us_68k_updaters.sit

This is the final version released by Aldus before it was taken up and developed further by Macromedia. Aldus Freehand at the time of vers 4.0 was almost absorbed by Adobe (to be axed, I guess) with their acquisition of Aldus Corp. - Acquired instead by Macromedia, postponing its demise for several years until the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe. - For a breakdown of this turbulent period, see this Wikipedia entry on Freehand's history.

Top Download's MD5 checksum and filename:
3aa796bb3202378da0f0c7a648bee7f3 *afh-4-inst.sit

Compatibility:

Separate native install sets for both 68k Mac and PPC Mac, runs well on Basilisk II (screenshots above were created on Basilisk II). The 68k install set will not run on a 68000 CPU Mac (including Mini vMac). The PPC install set will only install on a PPC Macintosh (or SheepShaver).

Minimum requirements for 68k Macintosh:

Macintosh: 68020 CPU
Monitor: Any
System Software: 6.0.7
Unused RAM: 4 MB
Unused disk space: 6 MB

Minimum requirements for PPC Macintosh:

Macintosh: Any PPC
Monitor: Any
System Software: 7.1.2
Unused RAM: 4 MB + Virtual Memory On
Unused disk space: 6.5 MB

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Altsys

Year released:

1993

Publisher:

Aldus

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

PPC