What is NewsFlash?

The Newsflash project is an OpenSource effort to create an easy to use but powerful native Mac OS X
Usenet newsreader. Newsflash features a gorgeous non-blocking Aqua GUI married to an architecture which supports multiple NNTP news servers, multiple concurrent operations and true (by reference) article threading. We hope to add MIME and binary support and advanced filtering and searching features.

Newsflash is developed in 100% native Objective-C using Mac OS X's advanced COCOA object oriented environment. Newsflash originated as a freeware project developed by Christopher Wolf (Wolfware). In order to expedite development and deliver a higher quality product to the Mac OS X community Chris has released the Newsflash sources under the BSD license as an an OpenSource project at Sourceforge.

Download NewsFlash for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

Compatibility notes

See more details on thewaybackmachine.

 

The only way I could get Alpha 4 to launch on Mac OS X 10.4 was as follows:
Note: I was unable to launch the Alpha 12 version.

1) Right click the app and choose to show package contents.

2) In the Contents folder you will find a unix exectuable "Newflash"

3) Launch terminal

4) Drag and drop the Newsflash item into the terminal window and hit enter.

5) The GUI will now open.

 

The Resources folder fpr Alpha 12 appears to suggest English, Swedish, French and German support While the same for Alpha 4 suggest only French and English.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver