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This Software / Information Package was intended to breathe life back into OS 9 which is now considered a dead operating system by Apple. However many still use / rely on OS 9 daily. Below you will find useful information about software for OS 9 which is either Free or indispensable Shareware. I have also included some software that is small, useful, hard to find and free.

The Gui

? Aqua Theme available for OS 9 which is a combination I created from two Aqua Themes I came across. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

? OpColourLight is an extension which takes the boxes off the folder names on the desktop. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

? Splash screens the best Aqua startup screen, About this Macintosh Screen and Internet Explorer replacements available. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

? Appearance-Randomiser a Theme, Sounds and Desktop Picture randomizer which is Free and works well. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

OS X functions

? A-Dock - Go get it ==> http://jerome.foucher.free.fr/ADock.html
Is an OS X like dock for OS 9. Well worth it.

? Browser X - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
Is a Free implementation of OS X Finder.

? OS 9 patches for the Finder which provide more function to OS 9. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

? To bring some Safari like function to Internet Explorer is the IE Google Bar Patch. Which allows you to type a ? followed by your query in the address bar to perform a search. Make sure you read my custom instructions to get it to work with the latest version of IE for classic. Also included is a group of Throbbers for all browsers. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

? The Ultimate archive of Plugins for Sherlock. Plus a Sherlock 2 patch. This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.

Alternative programs

? iSwipe - Go get it ==> http://www.hillmanminx.net/iswipe/
Is really the only choice when it comes to performing searches and downloads on WWW, FTP, Hotline, Napster, OpenNapster, Gnutella, FastTrack, Carracho(*) and OpenFT networks.

? Faust's Friend -Go get it ==> http://www.saguarostudios.com/products/faust/
Is and excellent customizable Headline News Grapper that is small and Free.

? D1FTP - Go get it ==> http://www.Malibutu.tk
Freeware FTP client available with all the standard features.

? Mac Messenger - Go get it ==> http://www.sparktech.tk/
Mac Messenger is an advanced MSN Chat Client that gives the user unpresidented options and capabilities for their chatting delights. Its Free!!

? MacDICT - Go get it ==> http://www.bainsware.com/macdict/
MacDICT is a DICT client. The DICT protocol lets you access a number of databases available online. MacDICT also accesses the following translation resources located on the web: TravLang and BabelFish

New in v2.5, MacDICT can access the Internet's free encyclopedia: Wikipedia
Features
Define(Command-D) lets you look up terms in databases
Match(Command-M) lets you find words that match a certain query
Translate(Command-T) lets you translate words and common phrases into other languages
BabelFish(Command-B) lets you translate entire sentences and paragraphs, but accuracy is greatly reduced.
Wikipedia(Command-E) lets you look up just about anything from a free encyclopedia.
Its Free!!

? MP3 Strip - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
Very small and easy to use audio MP3 player
Always ready for use
Automatically album list collection
Hierarchical menu in the album list
Sorting by Album, Artist or Folder name
Quick Load album list from the preference file
Automatic album list update for new and deleted tracks
Disk/Folder selection by Drag & Drop
Keyboard commands for playing Tracks and volume adjustment
Display Track title in the Control Strip window
Positioning within the song while it is being played
CBR (Constant Bit Rate) & VBR (Variable Bit Rate) playback support
ID3 Tags support (v1.0, v1.1, v2.0, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4)

? File Smiler - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
File Smiler turns your files and folders into Self-mounting inamge files using Apple's Disk Copy 6.3. Disk Copy only allows you to create disk image files, directly, To create Self-Mounting Image files, Disk Copy 6.3 must be accessed through Applescript. This is an excellent free alternative to Stuffit or any other program to compress files.

? ohNotes. Go get it ==> http://macdesktop.com/swimpsoft/productsohnotes.html
A replacement for the sticky notes. Its Free!!

? SilverKeeper - Go get it ==> http://www.silverkeeper.com/
A freeware application from LaCie that automates Backups to external storage devices like hard disks optical disks, and other removable storage devices that have IDE, ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or Firewire interfaces. Essentially any read/write device that can mount on the Macintosh Desktop can be used with SilverKeeper.

? FuturePaint - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder
Move over, Photoshop! There's a new kid in town and he's got pixel power to spare. If you liked DeskPaint, you'll love FuturePaint 2. In fact, there are so many great features that we can't possibly document them all on our web site. But here are a few things that will make you salivate like one of Pavlov's dogs.
* Graduated fill for any shape
* Rubber band selections
* Magic wand
* Rubber stamp
* Color palette adjusts to current depth
* Editable patterns
* Adjustable opacity
* Anti-alias lines & text
* Transparent or opaque editing
* Smudging
* Twain acquire from scanners
* Adjustable color depths
* Adjustable dpi
* Zoom 1:16 to 16:1
* Diffused or posterized dithering
* Great text handlers
* Palette shows mouse position, selection size, etc.
* Spray paint
* Great options for paint brushes
* Lighten/darken
* Image control filters
* Sharpen, unsharpen
* Twist selection to any shape
* Rulers
* GIF, TIFF, JPEG, Paint, SCRN, PICT and other formats can be opened and saved
* Full set of primitives
* Magnetic paintbrush
* Adjustable canvas size
* Works with any Mac printer
* Displays memory info
* Global paint bucket
* Global magic wand
* Grab video frames
* Show image information
* Add keywords for search utilities
* Auto convert every file in a folder to a new format
* Browse utility
* Build (and save) catalogs for your clip art collections
* Edit the tool palette
* Rotate
* Distort
* Perspectives
* Publish editions
* Create thumbnails
* Create previews
* Combine modes include opaque, transparent, negative, black erases, white erases, sub pin
* Scale
* Crop
* Extend selection
* Reverse selection
* Soften
* Change saturation
* Show page breaks
* And much, much more!

? Cameraid - Go get it ==> http://www.cameraid.com/
A powerful digital photography and JPEG management utility:
* Lossless rotation and transforms for JPEG format photos
* Eliminate duplicate photos
* Fast viewer with a photo grading system for quickly marking good & bad photos
* Batch processing
* Rename patterns using EXIF and file information
* JPEG-aware image enhancement expert for digital photographs
* Download photos from many popular digital cameras or transfer them using a card reader.

? Address Office - Go get it ==> http://www.centromedia.com/en/products/addressoffice/
Get organized with Centromedia Address Office ! It's a practical multiplatform telephone and address book that allows you to quickly and easily manage addresses, phone numbers, URLs, AIM, ICQ and Email addresses. Address Office can quickly find what you are looking for. The program is really simple to use and lets you protect your data with a password. Centromedia Address Office helps you in your daily work at the office or at home and can follow you everywhere in your Laptop.

Address Office is integrated with the Internet, allowing you to connect with Web pages and send Email using your favorite Email and browser software. The program also helps you to dial phone numbers by reading them out loud (through the speaker) or through your modem and has a most useful calendar that appears in a small separate window.

You can easily import and export addresses for the principal Email clients, Word processors and Excel.

International
Phone numbers are automatically dialed with the correct Country Code.
Address Office comes directly with 5 languages built-in, so that every one can use and understand it (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish).

Plug-Ins
The plug-in architecture can easily extend the function, add languages, and add your personal Splash Screen. You can distribute it with your personal publicity.

Statistics
Build easily statistics of your Addresses.

Multiplatform
There are no limits to exchange your archives between other offices and friends. Every version is released for different operating systems like: MacOSX, MacOS 8.1-9.1, Microsoft Windows.
Its FREE!!

? Corel Suite - Word Processor, Graphics Package and Extras for Free!
* WordPerfect 3.5 - Go get it ==> http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/pub/Macintosh/Applications/Corel/Corel_WP_35e.sea.bin
* WordPerfect Extra's - Go get it ==> http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=wordperfect
* CorelDraw 8 LE - Go get it ==> http://www.pctip.ch/library/downloads/dl.asp?id=2813

? StevePerfect - Go get it ==> http://homepage.mac.com/stevenmassey/stevesoftware/
StevePerfect is a suite of applications for the MacOS and MacOS X that includes a word processor, picture viewer, e-mail client, dictionary client, quicktime viewer, mp3 player, streaming quicktime viewer, editpad and an integrated help system. StevePerfect is designed with the novice computer user in mind.

? Watch It - Go get it ==> http://www.tbgstyle.com/index.php?p=watchit/watchit.html
WatchIt is an application that reminds you to watch those TV Shows you always miss because you're too busy doing some important work on your computer (right). It can alert you in several ways, including both written and spoken messages

Standard games

? Mike's Cards Lite - Go get it ==> http://www.mikesedore.com/mikecard.html
Is 7 free card games in one great program. Arcade Poker - Forty Thieves - Go Fish -
Klondike - La Belle Lucie - Spider - The Towers

? ChessWorks - Go get it ==> http://www.chessworks.net/
Requires any Mac running OS 8 - X or any PC running windows.
Whether you're looking for online Mac chess or online PC chess, ChessWorks allows you to play multiplayer chess over the Internet, or any LAN between PC and Mac. Whether you're new to chess or a regular player, ChessWorks offers multiple game and tracker windows open simultaneously for more than one game at a time, or it allows you to watch your friends play while you play another opponent simultaneously. Full automatic chess PGN archiving compatible with all major PGN readers allowing you to save your finished games. Save function for unfinished games. Resizable board and pieces, fully customisable options including chess board, chess pieces and even game sounds, text style and colour. Game clocks, SOCKS proxy support and unlimited private chat windows, fully Macintosh and PC compatible.

? Asshole - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
Asshole is an excellent card game for the Macintosh. Your goal is to be the first one to get rid of all of your cards. The last one to go out will become the Asshole. The real game of Asshole has many variations in game play, and so does this one! As many features as possible were squeezed into this one game resulting in one of the most configurable and fun to play card games available.

? Edtris - Go get it ==> http://www.badlogicstudio.com/edtris.php
Is an open source tetris game, complete with music and high scores.

? Minez - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder
Is a remake of a classic MineSweeper game.

? Double - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
To win, you must remove all the tiles from the board.

? Pac the Man - Go get it ==> http://www.mcsebi.de/pacman.php
Pac the Man is a clone of the arcade classic PacMan. It has identical graphics, gameplay and sound effects. Its Free!!

Performance

? Free Modem Scripts - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
As an alternative to Apple's Scripts and Modem Magic's overpriced scripts. I had trouble with my connection that these scripts fixed. Try them out!!

? ADsAway - This Software is included in the Classic X files folder.
This "software" will block aprox. 90% of all banner ads on the net, including hotline banners, maybe others. Not only will this elminate almost all banner ads, it should also speed-up surfing because You wont be downloading flash filled banner ads. There is also a major security feature, in that "banner tracking" will be almost eliminated, (no banner, no banner cookies)

? Turbo Internet - Go get it ==> http://www.macunicorn.com/turbointernet/
Turbo Internet can significantly accelerate your Internet connection, but can also resume downloads, keep your connection alive, launch up to 5 applications right after being connected and much more.

Turbo Internet is an utility that can significantly accelerate your Internet connection! Turbo Internet uses & combines many technologies to accelerate any PPP dial-up Internet connection. Many users achieved a 7.5K/sec download rate (compared to the original 4K/sec).
Generally, providers will allow only a preset rate. Turbo Internet simulates low Internet activity so that the server will allow you to use more bandwith. You might gain up to 3K/sec with a 56K modem.

Turbo Internet will also automatically update the pages you visit often when your Internet activity is low, using the MyHabits technology.
MyHabits is a system that will regularly download the pages you visit often and also the pages you visit when you have just connected. You will be surprised to see that your favorite sites will instantly display! MyHabits will first check whether there is an available update, and will place in the cache the webpage if needed when there is low Internet activity.

Turbo Internet also uses acceleration technologies from the PC platform, such as pre-fetching: Pre-fetching is a unique feature of Turbo Internet that will scan for links on a webpage and that will download every linked webpage. If an image is already placed in Turbo Internet's cache and if the image size is the same, Turbo Internet will not download it to accelerate pre-fetching without slowing your connection.

Turbo Internet features a Download Resume function: if for some reason your connection dropped or if you stopped a download by error, you'll have to start downloading from the beginning. With Turbo Internet, you can just resume it. Since this function is easy-to-use and does not require any custom download manager, you can deliberately stop a download and then resume it anytime.

Turbo Internet can also keep your connection alive. Most servers will automatically disconnect a user after a certain time. That might be very annoying if you're downloading a file. Turbo Internet avoids this by creating very small Internet activity. Turbo Internet will not create Internet activity if you're not surfing or downloading.

AutoLaunch is a feature that will launch up to five applications right after being connected. No need to manually launch your mail client, then your browser, then ICQ, etc. Just ask Turbo Internet to do so!

Turbo Internet is compatible with nearly every Mac browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Nestcape Navigator, iCab, Opera), every FTP client, every e-mail client, supports RealPlayer and almost every download manager.

? Turbo Mem - Go get it ==> http://www.macunicorn.com/turbomem/
Turbo Mem will defragment your RAM and will reclaim the free RAM other applications doesn't use, as well as accelerate applications using a "turbo-charge" method, which puts disk information in RAM for much faster access.
TurboMem will reclaim RAM from MacOS and applications, so that when the application you are currently using needs memory, it is available. This will improve computer performance and frequent slow-downs or "lag" periods.

The RAM allocation used by MacOS X is dynamic, but Turbo Mem's system is much better: is is faster, since it tries to avoid at all costs virtual memory, and it is more intelligent, since it will take RAM from a background application when the foreground one needs some.
As soon as there isn't enough free RAM, Turbo Mem will defragment it and will automatically accelerate it "on-the-fly".

You can also ask Turbo Mem to "turbo-charge" an application. If you want to launch an application such as Photoshop or a recent game such as Deus Ex, just turbo-charge it with Turbo Mem and it'll have plenty of free RAM for a smooth executing. Turbo Mem will also automatically accelerate applications on-the-fly, on launch, for a smooth and fast execution, with less "watch" or "beach ball" cursors!