Macintosh Garden - 1987

outSPOKEN 1.7

onlyonemac — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:55:09 +0000

Application file:

outSPOKEN.bin

This is the outSPOKEN screenreader for Classic Macintosh, version 1.7.

Also available: Version 8

We're still looking for outSPOKEN 9.2—please upload that version if you have it!

Compatibility:

Unknown; known to work in Mac OS 7 and probably 6

Category:

Utilities

Author:

Berkeley Systems

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Berkeley Systems

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Emulation:

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

PixelPaint 1.0

pl212 — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 01:02:27 +0000

Application file:

PixelPaint.hqx

Perhaps the first 256-color paint program for the Mac, PixelPaint was developed by Pixel Resources and published by SuperMac. It was positioned as a software showcase for the latter company’s new Spectrum 8-bit color video card for the Mac II and accompanying 19″ monitor, introduced at MacWorld Expo Boston in August 1987. Journalists noted that besides SuperMac, vendors such as PCPC (Personal Computer Peripherals Co.) and Mitsubishi were also shipping large-screen displays that would show off the software to good effect.

Compatibility:

Runs OK on the '020 Mac II version of Mini vMac, SSW 6.0.8, 8MB, 256 colors (screenshot 3 above).

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Pixel Resources Inc.

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

SuperMac Inc.

System:

System 1 - 5

System 6.x

Emulation:

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

APC PixelPaint Review, May 1988

Pyro!

Daxeria — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:17:39 +0000

Application file:

pyro_10_331_40_41.sit

This pack includes four versions of the Pyro! screensaver, charting its growth from a simple fireworks display bundled with Software Supply's other products to a boxed 35-module extravaganza.

Dan Sandler has written an OS X remake as well as a brief history of Pyro!

The little-known DOS port, "Pyro! PC", would make a nice extra here if it ever turns up.

(v1.0, v3.3.1, v4.0, v4.1)

Compatibility:

Ironically, the close-to-the-metal programming that kept Pyro! so efficient and co-operative on real hardware causes emulators to crash.

Category:

Screen Savers

Author:

Software Supply

Fifth Generation Systems

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Software Supply

Fifth Generation Systems

Symantec

System:

System 1 - 5

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Architecture:

68k

The Curator

24bit — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:04:55 +0000

Application file:

Curator.img_.sit

The Curator helps you to manage your vintage clipart (b/w only).
Files can be searched by name, keywords and thumbnails.
The app comes in two flavors, a DA for System 1-6 and a executable for OS9 and below.
Valid file types are PICT, TIFF, MacPaint, EPS and Postscript.

The file comes from the collection of mtb.

Compatibility:

The app will only handle b&w picture files.

Category:

Clip Art

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

©Solutions

System:

System 1 - 5

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

Think'n Time

24bit — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:29:49 +0000

Application file:

ThinknTime.sit

Small DA to add structure to your thoughts, e.g. having a concept for your writing.
All credits go to mtb, who sent me the file.

Compatibility:

Being a DA, this has to be installed to the System with the help of Font/DA Mover.

Category:

Business & Productivity

Author:

Mainstay

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Mainstay

System:

System 1 - 5

System 6.x

Emulation:

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

NetHack

mrdav — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:32:51 +0000

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 with ASCII graphics. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack (1985), which is a descendant of Rogue (1980). The player takes the part of a dungeon-delving character in search of the Amulet of Yendor. The first version of NetHack was released by Mike Stephenson in July 1987. A core development team emerged with the release of Nethack 3.0 in July 1989. Over the next 14 years of development they established a tight-lipped culture, revealing little, if anything, between releases.

Interleaf Publisher 3.0.4

grawlix.computing — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:13:31 +0000

Application file:

interleaf_publisher_3.0.4.sit

Interleaf was the first 'workstation' DTP package to be ported to the Mac II. It's the first salvo in what could turn out to be a barrage of products (such as the forthcoming FrameMaker from Frame Technology) originally developed for Apollo, Sun, and DEC workstations. Interleaf Publisher is based on an earlier Interleaf product called TPS (Technical Publishing Software) 3.0. TPS processed its first page in 1984 and was used primarily by large corporations and government departments in the heady environment of mainframes and workstations.

Compatibility:

This application specifically states that it will only run on a Macintosh II with a 68020 processor. Interleaf Publisher 3.0.4 was released in November 1987--before there were any 68030 Macs, and before the 68020 LC was available.

This application requires 2-bit color. Emulation in a Mac II version of vMac was very spastic, most likely because of Interleaf's decision to implement their own window and mouse managers within the application's client area.

The installation guide explicitly states you must be running System 4.1 or better. At the time of this package's release, System 4.2 had just been released.

Category:

Word Processing & Publishing

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Interleaf

System:

System 1 - 5

System 6.x

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

Review of Interleaf Publisher

Draw It Again, Sam...

vintagegeek — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 22:50:08 +0000

Application file:

drawitagainsam_2_01.zip

A Mac-exclusive graphic design app. According to Aba Software's George Lawrence Storm, "this was the first consumer graphics program to offer libraries, custom brushes and layers."

(v2.01)

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Kendall Redburn

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Aba Software

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation:

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

ZBasic

IIGS_User — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:16:54 +0000

Application file:

zbasic.sit

ZBasic was a compiler first released by Simutek (Tucson, AZ) in 1980. The combined efforts of Andrew Gariepy, Scott Terry, David Overton, Greg Branche, and Halbert Laing lead to versions for MS-DOS, Apple II, Macintosh, CP/M and TRS-80 computers. ZBasic was a very fast, efficient and quite advanced BASIC compiler with an integrated development environment. It aimed to be used as a cross-platform development system, where the same source code could be compiled to different platforms without any modifications.

Category:

Development Tools

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Zedcor

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation:

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

Adobe Illustrator 1.1

mrdav — Sat, 25 May 2013 07:25:24 +0000

Application file:

adobe_illustrator_1.1.image_.sit

The screenshot is taken from Museum Victoria, Australia. They state that "This package contains Adobe Illustrator 1.0 user's manual, two 3.5 inch floppy disks (Disk 1, Program and Disk 2, Tutorial) and a video training tape ('Meet Adobe Illustrator'). The manual is for version 1.0; the Program disk is for version 1.1" Unfortunately, the download here consists of only the application. It is in a custom DiskCopy 4.2 image (i.e.

Category:

Visual Arts & Graphics

Author:

Adobe

Year released:

1987

Publisher:

Adobe

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