The spotlight is on you—and MacDrums. You don't have to be a musician. You don't even have to know how to read music. If you can point and click, you can compose and record drum and percussion tracks with all the beat, soul, snap,...

M1 is an Arcade music player for Mac OS X. (It does work on OS 9, though this is not supported officially). M1 plays the music from arcade games by running the code in the original ROMs (not supplied). The current release supports over seven...

MO5/MacOS is a Thomson MO5 emulator for the Macintosh. MO5/MacOS runs most Thomson MO5 software without problems, and with full sound. The emulator uses an AZERTY keyboard layout, just like the original machine. Light Pen emulation is also...

Mugrat is a Colecovision emulator for Mac OS X. For many years now I have been porting emulators by other others to Mac OS. Mugrat marks my first attempt at writing one of my own, in this case to emulate the Colecovision. Richard Bannister....

MacYAME is a port of YAME to the Macintosh. It is a multiconsole emulator that supports the NES, SNES, TurboGrafx-16, and Game Boy. All documentation is in Japanese.

MacFortran is a Fortran development environment for Macintosh. This compiler is now in beta-test in the 2.4 version. This is much improved over the 2.3 release, with a number of bug fixes and a much better Mac interface. The compiler can now...

MacTree is a program in search of a problem to solve. It could easily be the greatest Finder alternative, but it isn’t, it could be the best file locator, but it isn’t. In fact, what it does best isn't remarkably useful. MacTree...

MapMaker 3.0 is a combination digital cartographer, geographic analyst, and graph generator, all in one package. It gives you the power to see information, such as the demographic makeup of a sales territory, actually on a map. Best of all, it does...

Perhaps you've encountered this situation; An important Excel file you’ve been using for several weeks has been growing steadily, but you haven't paid attention. You make the last revisions and start to save the file. Suddenly, a...

Cash Disbursements is a simple, one-write check writing system. Limited functionality, but does allow some detailed information. Menus clear and easy to follow, but check printing can be confusing. Other modules planned. MacUser. (May 1986)....

MATLAB is the principal numerical math system for matrix computation on platforms ranging from DOS PCs up to scientific superminicomputers. The big news in version 4.0 and higher of MATLAB is the addition, at last, of two features that have been...

A program that provides a variety of locals for producing graphics the Macintosh. Other options includes a number of pen sizes, pen modes (black, white, and reverse), and patterns. Other options include the ability to reverse black and white, modify...

A nonprocedural tool that helps individuals maintain personal data files. The program offers forms-based data entry and retrieval. Users select a format for data entry suited to their personal file management needs from a gallery of standard data...

Although LISP (the name comes from LISt Processing) has been around since the late 1950s, it has never been as popular as newcomers like C and Pascal. LISP has nourished in the artificial intelligence community, however, and wherever people need...

ModelShop II is a 3D scene modeling app for 68K Macs.  It supports flat color shading. Paracomp's newly rewritten ModelShop is one of the most complete 3-D  architectural-modeling packages avaiable. ModelShop II’s list of...

MacroMind Director users looking to incorporate QuickTime movies into their presentations need wait no longer. The latest upgrade to Macromedia’s venerable 2-D-aninimation and authoring tool features QuickTime support along with several new...

The MRJ SDK 2.2 ... contains a collection of tools, libraries, sample code, and documentation that will make it easier for you to build better Java software for the Macintosh. You can use this SDK to: Enable standard Macintosh applications...

Programming the Macintosh in assembly language is not a simple task. It requires detailed and thorough knowledge of the Macintosh. The Inside Macintosh manual provides all the technical information programmers need to create Macintosh applications....

If someone asked you to name some computer languages, any computer languages, chances are good that Pascal would be among them. It’s a popular, powerful language (most of the Macintosh Toolbox is written in Pascal) and it’s been around...