Appearance Manager themes & add-ons (Mac OS 8/9)

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Category: Appearance , Novelties & Fun , Theme

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On: 2014-04-14 23:11:46

Updated by: Amid

On: 2024-01-07 13:24:37

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What is Appearance Manager themes & add-ons (Mac OS 8/9)?

First download is a collection of 40 Apperance themes for Mac OS 8.5 (WARNING: some themes are incompatible with Mac OS 8.5-8.6 and will cause major issues, including constant crashing) or later. Here is the list:

2999 A.D. Theme
Aerial
Aqua
Aqua v2.0
Dark Platinum
Drawing Board
DSG Theme
Geometry PR2
Gizmo
Gizmo Platinum 0.9
Hi-Tech
Hi-Tech with Platinum Icons
iBook
iBookBB
iTheme
iThemePub1
iThemePub2
Neutech
Neutech Lite
NeXTheme 1.0.2
Paper
Paper Blueberry
Paper blugray
Paper Grape
Paper iMac Original
Paper Lime
Paper Lite
Paper Sky
Paper Strawberry
Paper Tangerine
Paper Tugray
paper8
QLike
QT4 Modoki
Slate Board
Summer Tan
System 7
System 7 (No Icons)
Y3K v2.0
Y3K v2.0 Lite

The second download is a set of three Mac OS 8.5b6 themes that never made it in the official release:

Gizmo
Hi-Tech
Drawing Board

All 3 themes come with their accompanying desktop picture, sound set and appearance theme file. To fully install them, you have to move each file to the corresponding folders in your System Folder > Appearance > [Desktop Pictures or Sound Sets or Theme Files]

Third download is a set of ten Mac OS 8.5 themes that are not in the orginal 40 above (except for Geometry which is PR 3):

Blue
Delta
Lucent
Moby
Sosumi Classic
Tech
Omega (Ω)

powermac themes

Dimple
Geometry
iTech
LCD

Bonus

Drawing Board Cursor

Download Appearance Manager themes & add-ons (Mac OS 8/9) for Mac

40_mac_os_8-9_themes.sit

(6.25 MiB / 6.55 MB)
40 Mac OS 8 and 9 themes / compressed w/ Stuffit

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2017-08-22 /

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Mac-OS-8-5b6-Beta-Themes.sit

(3.14 MiB / 3.29 MB)
Three Mac OS 8.5b6 Beta Themes / compressed w/ Stuffit

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2017-10-17 /

28a30da6f393aa020f3f37e4b0eb661844a0da26 /

11-more.sit

(2.66 MiB / 2.78 MB)
/ compressed w/ Stuffit

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2021-01-15 /

2024-01-07 /

b849ab32e11715440b4951c8aefbed49f32165f5 /

appearanceaddons.sit

(4.17 MiB / 4.37 MB)
A complete set of Themes for Mac OS 8/9 using the "Appearance Manager". No Kaleidoscope needed! / compressed w/ Stuffit

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2014-04-14 /

2024-01-07 /

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ResExcellence_Themes_0.sit

(6.4 MiB / 6.71 MB)
41 Mac OS 8-9 Appearance Themes from the ResExcellence.com website. Contains a newer version of the QT4 Modoki theme / compressed w/ Stuffit