A program that enables you to design and lay out pages containing text and graphics and print them on Apple’s LaserWriter printer. With PapeMaker you can produce newsletters, data sheets, manuals, proposals, presentations, and other small...

There’s nothing like an attractively designed, personalized certificate to jazz up an office or make someone’s day. Top Honors from Springboard Software was created to produce simple certificates quickly and easily and to take advantage...

Virtual modular synthesizer application (similar to Nord Modular and SunVox in some regards) from the Italian Mac programmer and vintage synth collector Antonio Tuzzi. Syd (1996) was an inspiration for this program. A modular synthesizer is a...

Hippo-C was the first C compiler for the Macintosh. It appears to be introduced by Wendell Brown of Hippopotamus Software at the Macintosh launch event in January 1984. (This is not well established but is based on a photo of Wendell Brown and Steve...

SmoothTalker was the 1980's best voice synthesizer and it was running on any Macintosh from even the very first one in 1984.  SmoothTalker could read long text documents with variable sentence length, paragraphs and punctuations. ...

As I used SongPainter, I was reminded of synesthesia, a psychological phenomenon involving a perceptual crossover, in which stimulation of one sense produces experiences in another. The most common example of synesthesia is the phenomenon of...

FoxPro 2.5 for the Mac replaces the aging FoxBASE+, a product that has been outpaced by Microsoft's cutting-edge DOS and Windows database products. The Mac version not only shares features and core technologies with its PC-based siblings but it...

Adobe Acrobat 3.0 for Macintosh 68K + PowerPC is a software program that was released in 1996. It was designed to create and view documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF) on both 68K and PowerPC-based Macintosh computers. Acrobat 3.0...

The typical graphical user interface requires pages and pages of code; a simple desk accessory such as Note Pad printed out in C-language code would be the size of a small hook. Since Macintosh programs tend to have many similar parts (there’s...

Although through the years Strata’s Vision 3d has been a highly regarded 3-D modeling, rendering, and animation package, recently it has been largely overshadowed by the company’s Studio Pro. These days, Studio Pro is usually touted as...

Kids World: Screen Saver Construction Set is exactly what it says it is: a sandbox for kids (and grownups too!) to create screensavers on their Mac.  The way it works is super simple: All you have to do is choose a background picture, drag and...

A communications toolkit from the makers of StuffIt. This program uses the Communications Toolbox and looks somewhat similar to MacTerminal 3.0. It has native StuffIt expansion/compression, encoding, an Aladdin X/YModem driver and a ZModem tool....

DiskTop is a desk accessory that provides simple, yet powerful ways to locate and manage your files and hard disk(s) much like DiskTracker but in real time. DiskTop is a simple but powerful file-management utility that lets you copy, move,...

Flowchart Design and Development

In Control started life as a well-received outliner and to-do list manager that let you add multiple cells of data to each line in an outline. The cells allowed you to add dates, comments, or pop-up lists of data to each outline heading. In Control...

Version 2.0 of Fractal Design's Painter, a natural media paint program that simulates traditional art painting methods. Serial Number:...

This month's entry in the web-browser wars comes from the 800-pound Mozi11a, as the 1ong-anticipated Netscape Navigator 3.0 dives into the fray. Since Netscape’s 2.0 version, Microsoft's surprisingly competitive Internet Explorer 2.0...