Software Library Listing July 2005 1 INTRODUCTION This is a catalog of all of the files maintained in the Keystone MacCentral Software Library. The Library can be obtained on CD by request. The library requires two CDs. Normally we will provide one full CD with the latest files. These will be programs that require OS X or in some cases Classic. Please specify if you require the complete library. DOMs Disks Of the Month are arbitrary collections of files. They have been downloaded from the Net. The web sites are included in the documentation so that you may download directly from the source. ROMs In September of 1998, we featured MacMAME as our Disk Of the Month (DOM 98/09.) In a nutshell, MacMAME attempts to emulate as closely as possible the original hardware of the early eighties arcade games. It does this by fooling the original program code, contained in ROM chips, into thinking they are running inside the real machine when in reality they are running on your Mac. MAME, which stands for Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator, is the product of a group of people who have teamed up to emulate as many of these games as possible. This is a list of the games that we have in our library in the DOM 98/09 folder. SOUND BYTES This portion of our catalog lists the names of the various sound bytes, that we have in our library. The five folders are arranged by type of sound. About .seas and .sits Many of the files are .sea files. The .sea is an acronym for Self Extracting Archive. Double clicking a .sea file causes it to expand into a useable file or folder. On the other hand, .sit files are compressed files that require StuffIt Expander. StuffIt Expander is a free utility that is available from many sources. About DAs DAs are Desk Accessories. In the early days, the Mac was limited to a single running program in RAM. The desk accessories were a workaround. They were small programs installed in the System. They could be invoked by selecting one or more entries in the Apple menu. With the introduction of Switcher and Multifinder, they became less important. System 7 did away with the Desk Accessory concept altogether. There are some gems in this group of programs. However, you have to work to dig them out. Double click on a DA to open a window which will reveal the actual program. The program must be dragged out of window before it will run properly in System 7 and after. Trash the original, now empty, DA. By the way, that part about “run properly”, I recommend that you not have anything important running the first time you launch one of these little rascals. They are not all well behaved. Some may freeze or crash your computer. We have tried to remove all of the really nasty ones, but be advised. About Inits INITs, cdevs, Control Panels, System Extensions — they are all buzz-words for basically the same critters: low-level programs which load automatically when the system starts up. They are the files that you toss into your System Folder. They are used at your own risk in operating systems through OS 9. Do not use them in Classic or OS X. About ppats Ppats are are small graphics used by Mac OS to tile the background of the desktop. 2 About Hypercard Stacks In the mid 80’s Apple introduced a new programming concept known as HyperCard. HyperCard is an application that manipulates files known as stacks. The programming environment was simple enough to encourage many, many Mac users to develop their own stacks. Access to the stacks requires either HyperCard or HyperCard Player. HyperCard allows for authoring. The Player, which is available in the library, does not allow authoring. The Index This section begins a list of all of the files in our library. Clip Art In the good old days, before scanners and digital cameras and vast collections of clip art, there were small collections of clip art. Mostly they were black and white, not color and not grey scale. Some of the art was very good. Our small collection is displayed by thumb nails. Thumb nails are reduced presentations. They were created using a beta version of ThumbsPlus. Fonts Important note: The Mac identifies fonts by an assigned number. Numbers are not necessarily unique. If two fonts have the same number, only one will appear in the font menu. Unless, of course, you are using some sort of a font utility that resolves such conflicts. Another important note: The name of the font suitcase and the name in the font menu are not necessarily the same. Be careful about changing the font menu name, especially if there is an associated Postscript font. I have not been consistent in which name I use in the database. Hopefully this will not be a significant problem. In the beginning, there was the Mac and the Imagewriter. Fonts were bitmaps. The good news was that bitmaps worked reasonably well on the Mac screen and the Imagewriter. A separate font must be created for each font size. The installed font sizes are shown in Outline style in font menus. The Mac uses an algorithm to generate other font sizes, but often the display looks really awful. For optimal display clarity, a second set of characters, twice the point size, should be installed. The inherent limitations of bitmapped fonts, limited font variety, font sizes, and print quality made bitmapped fonts unacceptable to business users. With the introduction of the LaserWriter, a new type of font was created: Postscript or laser or Type 1 fonts. Postscript fonts are scalable, that is, they look pretty good at any point size. Actually a complete font set consists of a bitmapped font and the screen font. The bitmapped font is used for screen display and as a template for the printer font. A separate bitmapped font must be available for each style (italic or bold) to be printed. There may be some subtle differences in the screen font and the printed output. Adobe Type Manager was introduced to augment the standard Mac drivers and produce better looking displays on the screen and on printed output on non-laser devices. It also uses both screen fonts and printer fonts. With the introduction of System 7, Apple introduced a new font technology, TrueType. TrueType fonts combine the elements of bitmapped and printer fonts into a single font set. TrueType fonts may be used with System 6.0.7 if the TrueType extension is installed. 3 The Index File Buddy 8.1.6 1.6 MB 12/2/2004 http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/ Requires Mac OS X 10.3 or late. We cannot distribute File Buddy from our library. However, it is used to view and edit a wide range of file and folder information, such as modify the names of multiple files at once (for example, remove “.txt” from the names of a group of files), create aliases, find empty files and folders, orphaned files, duplicate files, broken aliases, and unused preference files, create snapshots that can be used to track the changes on a disk, such as files installed by an installer (use snapshots to uninstall applications.) ClipClop 1.1.sea 62 K 8/30/1995 Applications ClipBoard ScrapBk This program allows you to use multiple clipboards with standard applications and allows you to print the clipboard, save it to a text or PICT file, and read a text or PICT file directly into the clipboard. The program also provides an improved, integrated version of the Scrapbook. Museum 0.3.sea 51 K 10/5/1994 Applications ClipBoard ScrapBk A scrapbook for graphics, text, and sound New Scrapbook 2.0 DA 12 K 9/27/1990 Applications ClipBoard ScrapBk Scrap It Pro 5.44.sea 725 K 10/15/1999 Applications ClipBoard ScrapBk http://www.northcoast.com/~jvholder/ScrapItPro5.44.sea.hqx ScrapIt Pro is the editable, searchable multimedia scrapbook and a mini-word processor to boot! Store, sort, display and search all of your text notes, sounds, GIF files, JPEG files, QuickDraw 3D files. The latest version allows creation of forms on the screen. Scrapbook Burster ƒ 10 K 9/11/1999 Applications ClipBoard ScrapBk Scrapbook Burster is a simple utility that copies each picture in a scrapbook file into an individual PICT file. Scrapz 1.3.2 DA.sea 55 K 10/4/1999 Applications ClipBoard ScrapBk Address Book 3.7.0.sea 366 K 5/14/1998 Applications Contact Mgrs Address book is an easy to use, yet fast and powerful way to provide you with complete management and control of lists of names, addresses, and phone numbers Address Notebook 1.1.1.sea 165 K 10/16/1999 Applications Contact Mgrs Address Notebook is a simple, fast and powerful program for saving addresses and notes. Little Black Book DA.sea 100 K 12/16/1998 Applications Contact Mgrs A basic phone book. Phonebook Plus 3.7.sea 405 K 10/16/1999 Applications Contact Mgrs http://www.knotech.com/shareware/PBPlus.html Phonebook Plus is essentially a personal information manager, or PIM. It sports a fast and intuitive “rolodex” interface. It has great dialing features, handles long distance and international calls easily, and supports envelope printing, color coding, and custom reports. The emphasis is on elegance; after all, if your phonebook program doesn’t keep your addresses at your fingertips, what good is it? DOCMaker 4.8.4.sea 367 K 10/16/1999 Applications Doc Makers http://www.hsv.tis.net/~greenmtn/DOCMaker484.hqx DOCMaker is an application for the Macintosh which creates stand-alone, self-running document files.