Applications Compatible with 68000-based
MacsFrom: Matti Haveri, mhaveri@walli.walli.uwasa.fi Some apps and extensions that still work on 68000 Macs
like Plus, SE,
Portable, Classic,
and PowerBook 100. In
parentheses notes and RAM requirements. (Compatibility
tested mainly on 4 MB PB100 or Plus; System 7.0.1*). Note
that also newer versions might work. System 7.0.1* leaves 3131K free memory on a 4 MB PB100;
additional MacTCP 2.0.6 and MacPPP 2.0.1 leave 3015K free
memory. (With extensions off, System 7.5.5 takes about
1,200K, leaving roughly 2,800K free.) - Anarchie 1.6.0 (ftp-client; v2.0.1 crashes)
- AOL 2.6
- AppDisk 1.5 (RAM-disk)
- ApplWindows
2.0.2 (hierarchical app-menu)
- AutoDoubler 1.0
- Basic Black 1.4.1 (minimal screensaver)
- BBEdit 3.5.1 (a great text editor)
- BeHierarchic 1.0.5 (hierarchical apple-menu)
- Black Night 1.0.5 (terminal emulator)
- Canvas 3.5
- ClarisDraw 1.0v3
- ClarisWorks 3.0
- Compact
Pro 1.51 (*.cpt and *.hqx coder)
- Disinfectant 3.6 (anti-virus utility)
- Disk Copy 4.2 (handles *.image files)
- DropStuff
w/EE 4.0 (a must-have addition to StuffIt
Expander)
- Dynodex 3.5
- Easy View 2.62 (setext- and digest-browser)
- EndNote Plus 1.2.1 (bibliography manager)
- Eudora 1.5.5 (email-client)
- Excel 4.0 (RAM 2048)
- Extensions Manager 2.0
- FaxSTF 2.6.1 (fax-utility)
- Fetch
3.0.1 (ftp-client)
- File Buddy 3.4.8 (handles file-types etc)
- FileMaker Pro 3
- FirstClass Client 2.5
- Flash-It 3.0.2 (screen captures)
- FreeHand 2.02
- GIFConverter
2.4.3 (opens GIFs, JPGs, TIFs, PICs; RAM 1500), Plus
or later
- GIFwatcher DA 2.1.2 (opens GIFs)
- GrafEq 2.04
(1.15 is less resource demanding), Pedagoguery
Software, even works under System 6
- HyperCard 2.0v2
- Illustrator 1.9.5
- InterSLIP
1.0.1
- Ircle 1.5.6 (irc-client)
- Kermit 0.99(188) (terminal emulator)
- MacDraw II 1.1v2
- MacinTalk 1.31 (this is obsolete; v2 also works)
- MacinTalk 2 (from the PlainTalk/Text-to-Speech 1.4.1
package)
- MacKnowledge (BBS; RAM 1060)
- MacLink Plus 7.5MacMinix 1.5.10.7 (UNIX-like system
that runs as an app under MacOS)
- MacPPP
2.0.1
- MacSOUP (68000) 2.2b7 (off-line news-client)
- MacTCP 2.0.6
- MacTCP Watcher 1.1.0 (ping crashes 2.0)
- MacWeb 1.00A3.2 (www-client; v1.1.1
E crashes when saving prefs)
- MacWeb 2.0 (more features than in v1.00A3.2 but also
slower and buggier)
- MacWrite II 1.1v1
- MacWrite Pro 1.0v4
- MaxFax 3.3.2
- MenuChoice 2.0 (hierarchical apple-menu)
- NCSA Mosaic 1.0.3 (www-client)
- NCSA Telnet 2.6 (telnet-client)
- NewsWatcher 2.1.1 (news-client)
- Norton Utilities 3.2
- PageMaker 4.0
- Persuasion 2.0
- Photoshop 1.0 (RAM 2048)
- PowerPoint 2.01
- Quark Xpress 3.32 (min RAM 2000, runs on as low as
900)
- ResEdit 2.1.3
- SCSIProbe
4.3
- ShrinkWrap 2.1 (mounts .image files etc; doesn't
create them on a Plus)
- StickyClick 1.2 (sticky mousedown Ý la
Windows)
- Strip fat 1.0a1 (unfattens apps by removing PPC or
68K code)
- StuffIt Deluxe 4.0
- StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 (a must-have decoder)
- StuffIt Lite 3.0.7 (crashes occasionally)
- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.5 (text editor)
- TrueType 1.0 (TrueType INIT for Systems
(6.0.5-6.0.8)
- UULite 2.0 UR (uucoder)
- Virex 5.0b (virus utility)
- Word 5.1 (RAM 2048)
- WriteNow 3.0
- YA-Base64 1.2.0 (base64 decoder; v1.2.9 crashes)
- YA-NewsWatcher 2.0.3b0 (news-client; v2.3.4
crashes)
- ZTerm
1.0.1 (terminal emulator)
- ZipIt 1.1.1 (v1.3.5 crashes PB100 with type 2 error,
v1.3.8
current)
- uuUndo 1.0b5 (uudecoder)
- Xlator 1.1 (converts eols and charsets)
68000 macs are supported up to System 7.5.5. The last
freely distributed System 7.0* (DD floppies) and 7.0.1*.
Remember to also get the 7.0.x tune-up <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.0.x/> <ftp://ftp.apple.com//dts/mac/sys.soft/> Systems 6.0.3-6.0.8: <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_6.0.x/> TrueType INIT and Font/DA Mover for Systems
6.0.5-6.0.8: <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/System/TrueType/TrueType_1.0.sea.hqx> <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/System/TrueType/Font_DA_Mover_4.1.hqx> Systems 5.0-7.0.1* (7.0* on DD floppies) and some
localized 7.0.1* systems: <ftp://ftp.apple.com//dts/mac/sys.soft/>
<ftp://ftp.apple.com//dts/mac/sys.soft.intl/>
<ftp://ftp.apple.com//devworld/System_Software/System_Software_Archive/> ...System files are often stored as *.image files which
can be opened and transferred to floppies with DiskCopy or
ShrinkWrap: <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy_4.2.sea.hqx> <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/disk/shrink-wrap-21.hqx> minimum requirements for the netMacPlus, (2.5-)4 MB RAM, 20 MB harddisk, (2400-)14400
modem, System 7.0* and MacTCP 2.0.6 are the practical
minimum requirements for PPP connections. Only MacPPP 2.0.1
and InterSLIP 1.0.1 currently work on 68000 macs (SimplePPP,
Sonic PPP, InterPPP, MacSLIP or FCRppp might work but I
haven't tried them). MacTCP is included in System 7.5. Apple dealers sell it
but a cheaper and better way is to buy "The Internet Starter
Kit for Macintosh" (Adam Engst, Hayden Books) book where
MacTCP, among other utilities, is included. MacTCP 2.0.x to
2.0.6 updaters: <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/Networking-Communications/Other_N-C/MacTCP_2.0.6_Update.sea.hqx> <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/conn/mactcp-206-updt.hqx> MacPPP 2.0.1: <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/conn/mac-ppp-201.hqx> InterSLIP 1.0.1: <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/conn/inter-slip-installer-101.hqx> On 68000 macs telnet-, ftp-, mail-, and news-apps like
NCSA Telnet, Fetch, Anarchie 1.6.0, Eudora, and NewsWatcher
work fine. With MacPlus you can't use control-keys in NCSA
Telnet (in ZTerm you can use command instead of
control). <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/ncsa-telnet-27b4.hqx>
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/fetch-301.hqx>
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/mail/edr/eudora-light-155.hqx>
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/inet/newswatcher-212.hqx> On 68000 macs NCSA Mosaic 1.0.3, MacWeb 1.00A3.2 and v2.0
work. MacWeb 1.00A3.2 works better than v1.1.1 E which
crashes when saving prefs. MacWeb 2.0 has more features than
v1.00A3.2 but it is also slower and buggier. NCSA Mosaic
1.0.3 can display in-line graphics but with MacWeb you must
use an external helper (click and hold on an image icon,
choose "Retrieve to Disk" from the pop-up menu and view with
GIFConverter or GIFwatcher DA). Q: How can I get MacWeb 1.00A3.2 to automatically show
GIFs on a 4 MB 68000 Mac? A: Usually MacWeb tries to open GIFs internally; on 68000
macs this is not possible and an external viewer like
GIFConverter is needed. However, GIFConverter doesn't really
fit into the max 900K RAM that MacWeb leaves. There is an
old DA "GIFwatcher DA" that can be transformed into an
automatically launched app via "DA Piggyback 1.2" which
takes less memory than GIFConverter. Then change in MacWeb's
prefs' Edit/Suffixes "gif" to MIME type "image/pict" and
Edit/Helpers MIME type's "image/pict" helper to GIFWatcher.
Turn File/Preferences/Format/Autoload images off; you must
view each GIF separately with no clickable links. <ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu//Mac/Mosaic/NCSAMosaic103.hqx> <ftp://ftp.utexas.edu/pub/mac/tcpip/macweb-10a32-fat.hqx> ResEdit instructions for proxy support in MacWeb
1.00A3.2: <http://www.cs.utas.edu.au/Documentation/Mac/MacWeb1.00A3.2Proxy.html> <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/Utilities/ResEdit_2.1.3.sea.hqx> <http://www.eden.com/~arena/jagshouse/MacWeb2.sit.hqx> <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/gst/grf/gif-converter-237.hqx> <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/gst/grf/gif-watcher-212.hqx> With only 1 MB RAM, floppy drive(s) and System 6 you can
connect via a terminal emulator like ZTerm and use unix apps
like pine, tin, ftp, ncftp, sz, rz, and lynx for mail, news,
file transfer and www. With ZTerm you can use command-key
instead of control when using MacPlus. To save disk space on
those 800K floppies install the minimum System 6.0.x that
ZTerm requires. You can trash all files except System and
Finder, delete unnecessary fonts and DAs from the System
file with Font/DA Mover and delete PPC code from ZTerm with
Strip Fat to save even more disk space. <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/comm/term/zterm-10b3.hqx> If you really want to use System 6 and connect via PPP
I've heard that following software versions might work:
System 6.0.5-6.0.8, MacTCP 2.0.6, MacPPP 2.0.1, NCSA Telnet
2.6, Fetch 3.0.1, Eudora 1.3.1, NewsWatcher 2.0d13m01,
Internews 1.1, MacTCP Watcher 1.1.0, Valuefax 2.0.9 (older
versions of these apps may use less memory). <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com//quest/mac/eudora/1.3/eudora131.hqx>
<ftp://ftp.brown.edu/pub/mac/NewsWatcher/NewsWatcher_2.0d13m01.sea.hqx> If you need to save disk space unfatten the apps with
Strip Fat, for example: <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/cfg/strip-fat.hqx> Use a local info-mac mirror, if possible: <ftp://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mac/info-mac/help/mirror-list.shtml>
<ftp://mirrors.aol.com//pub/info-mac/help/mirror-list.shtml> Old mac games and info about compact macs at: <http://www.eden.com/~arena/jagshouse/Shareware.html> To subscribe to Classic Macs mailing list, send a
subscription request to <classicmacs@hitznet.com>. To
post comments or questions send your e-mail post to
<classic-post@hitznet.com>. The Classic Macs Archives
are found at: <http://www.zws.com/classicmacs/>
and <ftp://ftp.zws.com/classicmacs/>. URLs of some communications programs and apps are
available at: <http://walli.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/mac-internet-faq.shtml>
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