Austin Leeds wrote: > Well, I guess I was wondering what variety of software was available > for Mac OS 7–9. Well nearly essential is some version of BBEdit. It lets you edit and convert MSDOS, Mac Classic, and Unix files. No unicode though.
Some people really like Pagemaker, I have it but I haven't used it much. AppleWorks5 runs really great. I also liked NisusWriter5. There is a lot of surprising varied programming languages, and often coming with nice GUI API s which cost thousands of dollars for newer OS versions, great for ez learning basics. Some of these are legally free of charge. Including Perl, Python, Lisp, C, Prolog ... One of these days I thought about burning a cd of them with BBEdit lite which I could give out for small distribution no profit thing, encourage people. Also free is ColorIt!, a photoshop alternative. MacLynx makes a good pager for html text. Acrobat3, renders 90% of pdf files you find. Painter4 (get an old adb tablet). I do a lot of reading and notes typing with my powerbook540. If you have a powerpc (upgrade) you can play mp3... (I forget the name of the Free softwares). > I think the lack of distractions might actually be beneficial… It has been for me. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
