Macintosh Garden - Tom Pittman

PowerFPU

Balrog — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:56:45 +0000

Application file:

PowerFPU is a 68K FPU emulator for PPC Macs. It's similar to Software FPU, but more somewhat faster and more efficient. This may be necessary to run older 68K apps on PPC hardware.
Author's page: http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/PowerFPU/

Compatibility:

Requires a PPC Mac.
"One unlucky user discovered that opening the PowerFPU control panel disables it, requiring a re-install. Just install it and don't open it, if you have that problem."

Category:

Utilities

Author:

Tom Pittman

Year released:

1995

Publisher:

John M. Neil

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Architecture:

PPC

Double-XX

Balrog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:19:24 +0000

Application file:

DoubleXX.hqx

Double-XX is a HyperCard stack to be used with CompileIt to create complete 68K Mac applications that don't require HyperCard to run.

Compatibility:

Requires HyperCard 2 or later.

Category:

HyperCard

Author:

Tom Pittman

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

CompileIt!

Balrog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:12:48 +0000

Application file:

CompileIt.sit_.zip

CompileIt is a HyperCard stack that compiles HyperTalk into 68K code. It's mainly used for writing HyperCard XCMDs and XFCNs, but can be used for other applications as well. (PowerFPU was written using CompileIt). Also see Double-XX.
More info at http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/CompileIt/index.html .

Compatibility:

Requires Hypercard. Inside the .zip there are three .sit files, one for each floppy disk.

Category:

HyperCard

Author:

Tom Pittman

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

compileit_manual.pdf