• ApplicationMenu - MultiFinder utility which installs a pop-up menu of all applications presently running under MultiFinder, so you can switch to any such application. Very handy.
• MFKeys - MultiFinder utility which installs command key equivalents for switching from one application to another, in a similar way to the old dinosaur Switcher worked.
• Backdrop - Sets the desktop background
• Beep - System beep alternative
• Big Screen - Similar to Stepping Out, it permits larger than normal screens on the ordinary Mac screen.
• F1F4v1.3 - Installs key equivalents for the Saratoga (Extended) keyboard
• MClock & MenuTime - Both install clocks on the menubar
• Page 2 Saver - Reserves memory for the alternative screen buffer, needed for games like Megaroids.
• QuickFolder - Enhances the savefile dialog to include a button for creation of a new folder. Handy for creating a folder on the fly.
• Scroll2 - This is an alternative scroll bar definition procedure
• TimeLogger - Records a log of the times at which the Mac is used
Control Panel Devices (CDEVs)
• Møire 1.33 - Latest version of John Lim's excellent screen-saver
• Vaccine - Lets you know when a virus program may be attacking your Macintosh
• The GuardDog - Protects you system from unauthorised users
• Who's Who - Provides info on your Mac's configuration
Desk Accessories (DAs)
• BCS*Clicker2 - Keeps track of mouse movements in a little window.
• Company - Odd optical illusion game
• DAFont3 - New version. Allows you to select a FONT as the default for DAs
• DAfx - MacPaint DA, with new features. Demo version.
• DiskLock - Allows you to protect your hard disk from unwanted users
• Event Reference - Keeps tracks of events created by the user
• FatMouse3 - New version. Shows small magnified section of the Mac screen.
• MailLabel - Mailing label generator
• MemroMeter - Shows memory consumption as a thermometer
• Message 2.0 - Accepts a string which is displayed similar to the Times Square display. Neat.
• NotePad II 2.0 - New improved Note Pad DA
• Nudedark - Darkens screen, displays naked woman walking across the screen
• Quick Label DA - Another labelling DA
• StreakerDA - Similar to nudedark, but display restricted to small window
• System Errors - SysErr DA - DAs which list system errors
• TextCount - Analyses text-files to complexity. Useful for school teachers
• VirusDetective - DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files. You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be removed from the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update the search list at any time.
• Wolfman - Calculates future dates to stay indoors, and so avoid de Wolfman
Function Keys (FKEYs)
• Colour Screen Dump - Does colour screen dumps on Mac II's
• Laser Cannon - Blows holes through windows
• Reset SysEvtMask - Resets the System Event Mask to restore mouse double-clicking.
• StdFile FKEY - This FKEY pops up a small dialog box that allows you to type in a pathname. The Standard File package is then set to this folder, so that Open/Save dialog boxes will open on that folder. It's meant to be used with QuicKeys to make sequences position-independent.
• Teleport 5 - Application launcher FKEY that is compatible with MultiFinder. This is very useful when you want to access a program without searching messily through several folders in the Finder without having to use the mouse.
Startup Documents (INITs)
• AutoIdle - This is yet another of those automatic screen blanking utilities. It should be compatible with all versions of the Macintosh, including a Mac II with multiple screens. It is also compatible with Multifinder. From Larry Rosenstein, one of the authors of the Finder.
• Backdrop - Backdrop is a small piece of entertainment software that puts one out of a collection of pictures in the background of the Macintosh screen, behind all the windows, in place of the normal grey pattern. It is meant for hard disk users, since the pictures require a lot of disk space. In order to use Backdrop, you must have a Mac Plus, Mac 512 Enhanced, Mac SE, or Mac II.
• Enchanted Menus - Enchanted Menus is an 'INIT' file that should be placed in the System Folder. Its action will be immediately apparent after you next reboot.
• Infidrag - A short little INIT which overcomes the problems some programs have in not letting you move a window outside the 512x340 boundaries of the original Mac, even though your screen may be bigger.
• LaserQuotes - Laser“Quotes” is an INIT which intelligently inserts proper quotation marks
• MenuClock - This program puts the time near the right edge of the menu bar
• MFMenu1.2 - MultiFinder enhancement - installs pop-up applications menu
• PopIt!1.72 - Installs pop-up menu bar equivalent
• Popup 2.0 - Same as PopIt!
• PramFix - Corrects PRAM errors
• Private Eye - Allows you to keep track of what applications people using a particular Mac are using. It patches the Launch trap, and when a launch occurs, it writes the name of the application and the date-time into a log file in the system folder. If the log file does not exist, it is created by the INIT.
• Programmer's Key - Installs a key-equivalent of pushing the programmer's button
• RandScreen - RandScreen is an INIT file which gives you a different StartUpScreen every time you boot your Macintosh up.
• SaratogaKey - This little INIT, written by Gernot Eger, will enable the F1-F4 keys on the Apple Extended Keyboard (a.k.a. Saratoga, 'cause it resembles an aircraft carrier's deck).
• SFScrollInit - SFScrollInit is an INIT from Andy Hertzfeld that enhances Standard File. Install by dragging it into your system folder. It causes Standard File to remember the last scroll position for each directory. This version fixes a bug that occured on Mac IIs, and possibly under MultiFinder.
• ShowINIT Resource - utility that displays an INIT's ICON during system startup
• ShutDown Sound - Put this INIT and a digitised sound file created with SoundCap into the system folder of your hard disk and reboot. The next time you ShutDown (using either the Special Menu from the Finder or things such as QuicKeys, or the new ShutDown FKEY), you will be treated to whatever sound you chose as your ShutDownSound!
• Vaccination - Anti-Virus utility
• {Pause} - Simple INIT which pauses for a few seconds at system startup. Useful when reading fortunes with the !Fortune CDEV (mentioned below).
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Control Panel Devices (CDEVs)
• !Fortune - Randomly displays a new fortune when the Mac reboots
• Front&Center - When some lazy friends of the author got sore wrists chasing alerts & dialogs around their large screen monitors Pete Helme whipped up this little CDEV for them which automatically centers any dialog around the cursor. He thought maybe they just wanted to save their wrists for better backhands at the club or something but this actually turned out to be quite useful even on regular Mac screens, so he decided to let it out as Shareware.
• SCSI Parker - Utility which properly parks the heads of your hard disk.
• SCSI Tools 1.0d5 - Useful utility for SCSI hard disk users.
Desk Accessories (DAs)
• area code da - Enter the phone area code, out comes the corresponding zone of the U.S.
• ASCII-Char - Lists ASCII codes in decimal, hex and octal.
• KiwiEnvelopes - Mailing labelling utility
• Lookup - Lookup was designed to provide a Macintosh user interface to standard tables of data. It is designed to be a generic desk accessory, which can access any data stored in a text file. Up to four columns of data may be associated with an arbitrary descriptive column.
• Microscope - Displays portions of the Mac screen at variable magnifications
• miniWRITER - Latest version of this excellent text editor
• MyWord - Word processor DA. Beta-version
• Note Pad II - An improved Note Pad DA
• QuickB Download - Quick downloads from Compu$erve
• RoomMate - Now you can't claim to be lonely as you work on those boring projects for Computer Science 101! Just call up your RoomMate and he'll keep you company and even entertain you with facial expressions. But, keep an eye on him: he's known to throw in an evil glare every now and then!
• Windows 2.0 - Sets up a menu listing of all open windows, so you can select them
• XL Dialogs - The XL Dialogs desk accessory was written to allow easy creation of User Defined Dialogs within Excel. Using this desk accessory, creating a custom, executable dialog from within Excel is a simple seven step process
Function Keys (FKEYs)
• ClipperKey - Installs FKEY which permits the copying of any portion of the Mac screen into the clipboard
• Scrn To Pict II - This FKEY saves the current Mac screen into PICT2 format
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Control Panel Devices (CDEVs)
• ApFont 3.0.1 - Changes the default application font
• AppMenu 2.0 - MultiFinder enhancement, provides popup menu for switching applications
• Flex 3.0 - Screen saver
• Fontonize - Changes the default application font
• Møire 1.45c - Screen saver with menu clock
• Morse CDEV & FKEY - Morse code trainer
• Phone Mate - Alerts you of incoming calls
• SoundMaster 1.1 - The ultimate in beepsounds,startupsounds,etc.sounds
• SuperClock! - A great menuclock device Version 2.5
Desk Accessories (DAs)
• AppleDraw DA 3.3 - Simple drawing DA
• BigCaps - Better version of KeyCaps - displays fonts in various sizes
• Camera - Takes a snapshot of the screen given a delay value in seconds
• Go-Go! - Watch this girl strut her stuff!
• IconGrabber - Steals ICONs from other applications
• JoliWrite - Text editing DA
• Label DA - Envelope labelling DA
• ∂'Librarian DA - Allows you to read ∂'Librarian files (by John Lim, author of ∂'Librarian)
• miniWRITER 1.42 - Latest version of this great text editor DA
• PSHelp 1.1 DA - Uses the Postscript help file from Cricket Draw - acts as online help
• VirusDetective 1.1 - Latest version of this viral combat DA
Function Keys (FKEYs)
• Flash Formatter - Formats disks faster than the Finder
• Pad-Lock - Security DA
Startup Documents (INITs)
• Backdrop 2.16 - Great for setting up desktop backgrounds, using startupscreens
• BootCheck - Boot Check is a simple security system designed to keep irritating visitors off of your hard disk. This is done by performing a security check when starting the system. While it can be easily circumvented by booting from floppy, most irritating users don't tend to be technically capable of realising this fact. And if, by chance, said irritating users happen to discover your keyboard code, it can be easily and quickly changed.
• Gimme Back SysBeep - Gives users the original beepsound back
• MFMenu+ - MultiFinder enhancement, provides popup menu for switching applications
• Not-I - very simple INIT that intercepts a disk event and keeps the first disk after the startup disk from mounting (and showing up on the desktop). If you later decide you want to mount the disk anyway, use something like the SCSI Tools cdev by Paul Mercer.
• QuickFolder 2.0 - Allows you to create folders on the fly, from within standard file dialogs
• Random - This is a little tiny init I wrote to replace Randomizer. If you have a MacII and Two files named “StartupScreen” and “DeskPicture” with resources with ID=0 and up (i.e. you have two files with multiple startupscreens and deskpictures, saved as resources) Random will switch the present ID=0 resource, with one of the others. Hence your desktop will change, more or less randomly. Just drag this into your system folder to install.
• Scroll2
• SCSI Accelerator - A patch to the Mac's SCSI-dispatch code; the author reports that it substantially increases hard-disk throughput (especially if the disk is subsequently reformatted with a lower interleaving ratio). SCSI Accelerator is definitely a "use at your own risk" tweak. It was designed to be used on a Mac Plus under System 4.2, and may not work in other configrations; it performs some sanity-checks when patching itself into the SCSI dispatcher, and will not install itself if it can't find the appropriate hooks. Mr. Denowh strongly recommends backing up your disk before installing SCSI Accelerator (or any other modification that may affect disk access). He's willing to assist people who use System files other than version 4.2, and is interested in hearing from people who have tried SCSI Accelerator.
• Temperament - This INIT removes annoying Word temp files
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Control Panel Devices (CDEVs)
• Dimmer 1.3 - Yet another screensaver
• Møire cdev 2.0 - Version 2.0 of one of the best screensavers for the Mac
Desk Accessories (DAs)
• Airports - Calculates the distance between major US airports in nautical miles
• AT View - Allows you to look at what's going on in an AppleTalk network
• Clarity - Clarity is a desk accessory which is a godsend to desktop publishers, and anyone else who seeks to squeeze the best possible quality out of the images printed on the ImageWriter or LaserWriter printers. Clarity performs the electronic equivalent of photo–reduction, that is it increases an image’s resolution by decreasing its size.
• DA Tunes - A madcap music DA
• DeskZap 1.32 - New version of a handy file utility DA
• DtC 1.51 - DtC is a RPN calculator with four registers in stack
• Easy Envelopes+ - Envelope printing utility
• McSink 4.8 - Version 4.8 of a great textfile editor DA
• Note Pad II 2.1 - A great enhancement of the Note Pad DA
• Perfectionist - Converts text files to WordPerfect files
• PowerEdit - There are already a number of very good DA editors around like MiniWrite an MockWrite, but none of them really address the needs of a programmer. PowerEdit is designed to bridge the gap between full-blown program editors like QUED/M and the small DA editors.
• Remember 1.1 - How often do you forget little things like birthdays, appointments and the occasional shock therapy session? Remember? is a Desk Accessory and an INIT to simulate the brain cells you thought were gone forever due to the excesses of your youth. You enter descriptions of important occasions, both one-time only (such as appointments,) and repeating (like birthdays.) Using the DA you can then browse through times past, present and future and see what is/has/will happen. The INIT will remind you of impending events when you power up or reset your Mac.
• SmartMouse 0.9 - Window utility
• StarGazer - Displays the northern constellations
• VirusDetective v1.2 - Version 1.2 of a handy virus killer
• Vital Signs - Shows info on your Mac’s, such as memory free, disk space, machine type
Function Keys (FKEYs)
• Volume Info - Volume Info FKEY presents a window listing all currently mounted volumes, what type they are (HFS, MFS, or ??? for unknown), and how much free space is on them.
• Install Folder FKEY - Creates folders on the fly
• Pad-Lock Installer - Security FKEY
Startup Documents (INITs)
• Earth INIT - Earth is an INIT which draws a rotating Earth over the apple in the menu bar.
• MenuClock 1.1 - Yet another clock that sits on the menu bar
• Rear_Window - Rear_Window is an INIT that allows you to copy files from one window to another which is covered up by the first window (i.e., from a larger window to a smaller one).
• SCSI HD Icon INIT - Converts your SCSI hard disk’s icon to the standard SCSI one
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Control Panel Devices (CDEVs)
• Møire 2.22 - Latest version of John Lim's World Famous Screen Saver
• Simon CDEV - Allows you to customise your system's international resources
• hierDA - Allows you to access DA menus hierarchically
• MacEnvy 1.0d8 - Reports on the system environment settings
Desk Accessories (DAs)
• Bezier - A modest painting program with a special talent. Like a French curve drafting tool, Bezier helps you construct smooth curves even if you don't have a steady mouse hand.
• Catch - Baseball trainer
• CODE Unlocker - Useful on 128K ROM or later Macintoshes. It unlocks CODE resources in applications, avoiding heap fragmentation
• ColorTrails DA - A great DA for Mac II owners
• Close File DA - It will completely close up any open file, if so instructed.
• ConSITer DA 1.01 - ConSITer DA will Convert SIT files to Auto UnStuffIt and back again. It does this by simply changing the file type to APPL or SIT!, respectively. IT WILL NOT INSTALL THE AUTO UNSTUFFIT SHELL! This program is intended to make Auto UnStuffIt files accessable from the StuffIt programs and utilities, then change it back so it may be opened as an application.
- Four registers in stack and 20 additional registers (R00-R19).
- Supports fixed, scientific and engineering number formats.
- Angle units: degrees, radians.
- Saves position, registers and current settings when quiting.
- Has key equivalents for frequently used keys on calculator.
- Fast window updating
• Ez-Mail 1.10 - E-mail utility
• Macquarium - Wanda, where are you?
• McSink DA V6.1 - Latest version of a great shareware text editor
• Message 3.0 - Produces an animated message
• Remember? 1.22 - How often do you forget little things like birthdays, appointments and the occasional electro-shock therapy session? Some of us do it a lot. But wait! Do I hear hoofbeats in the distance? Is that the 7th cavalry banner waving in the distance? No, its Remember?, a Desk Accessory and an INIT to simulate the brain cells you thought were gone forever due to the excesses of your youth. You enter descriptions of important occasions, both one-time only (such as appointments,) and repeating (like birthdays.) Using the DA you can then browse through times past, present and future and see what is/has/will happen. The INIT will remind you of impending events when you power up or reset your Mac.
