Old applications you would like to see OS X native

[King Cobra]

I think this may be my most intelligent topic since the Apple Monitors discussion.

Plain and simple: What applications/games/utilities, old or new, would you like to see available for OS X, even if these applications seem as if they will not become OS X native?

My choices are:
Strata 3D Base
Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator
Issac Asimov's Astronomy Collection
Virtual Pool for the Mac
Whales (A guide on system 7)
MacBrickout
PowerPoker for System 7
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[AlphaTech]

The one I can think of right away is Poser... I have version 3, but I am waiting until an OSX native version comes out before I purchase an update.

Of course, I would like to see all my games out for OS X, such as UT, and others that I won't list at the moment (they are at home, and I'm at work).

[AmbitiousLemon]

poser would be sweet.

i was thinking Oids. anyone play that game [wondering if im the only one].

pax imperia

warlords

[just flipping through my old floppys, jeez smees all id did back thenw as play games and write shareware... o man i just found my old system 7.5.1 discs, and my entire hard drive backed up to like 8 floppies, crazy, dont know what to do with these old things, seems like a waste to throw them away so they all sit under my bed (im not the collector type)]

[ftaok]

I say MicroLeague Baseball. We'll need it when the players go on strike.

I may have to dust off my SE/30 just for this.

Oh, and I can play Shufflepuck Cafe in between innings. (Actually, I can't. It's System 6 and I don't remember it having MultiFinder)

[AmbitiousLemon]

o man i remember shufflepuck. that was cool. i didnt realize i was playing it so long ago. system 6 damn.

[iH8Quark]

Adobe Dimensions

This little app is so sweet, especially for Flash. The output to vector is really nice. Does anyone know of a substitute for it?

[stromie952]

Oh wow, I just remebered Shufflepuck! What a great game!

I also was a big fan of Wolfenstein 3D. It would be really cool if someone made something like DoomLegacy but for Wolfenstein instead :D

[mischief]

It was cool and they never kept up for the Mac. The most recent editions are eye-popping. It's got some serious advantages over basic 1st person shooters. That's where I mastered the "Tablet kill at 1Km". Oops, did I just Railgun your cockpit? (grin):D

[rainman::|:|]

simcity 1.4... hell it's not even available for 256 colors, i wish i could play it again. i don't want to have to set up a 680x0 system just for this...

maybe some shareware patch guy will make such a creature... but i'm not holding my breath...

:)
pnw

[macstudent]

macbrickout is amost finished being ported to OSX. check out www.leapfrogsw.com for updates.

[GeeYouEye]

Star Trek Trivia

I know it's old and was originally for the Mac 512k, but I managed to memorize the answers.

By the way, system 6 does have multi-finder. Go to the Special menu, choose set startup. I warn you though, it runs VERY slow in MF.

[Macmaniac]

I would like to see Warcraft 2 for OS X and Tetris for OS X.

[Hemingray]

Crystal Quest, MacInooga Railway, Shufflepuck, and Enchanted Scepters.

Although that Mac Plus emulator for OS X allows me to play those anyway, so I can't complain. :D

[firewire2001]

ooh! sim tower.. haha... i even restart into nine to play that sometimes ;)

[jasonpaul75]

Microsoft Project or at least an open source compatible with MS project files.

Adobe Dimensions...I find it seriously disturbing that this project is still sold...there hasn't been an update in forever. It was a great little tool that I still use in my vector work for simple 3d everyday...it would really compliment Illustrator 10. Maybe it could be turned into an included plug-in. I thought Adobe was sniffing around Carrara for this purpose...I still need a solid easy to use tool to create quick 3D for print...

Is Fontographer due for an update as well?

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by jasonpaul75
Microsoft Project or at least an open source compatible with MS project files.

Don't count on that ever coming to OS X... Considering how the last version is over 4 years old (dated in 98 I believe), it doesn't reliably install under the latest versions of OS 9. The windblows version however, was done in 2000, with probably another update soon. Damn you bill gates!!

[Hemingray]

In case any of you are interested, here's the link to download MacInooga:
http://members.tripod.com/~mammola/macinooga.hqx

I'm amazed that thing's still around! Oh, and while we're at it, here's good old DUCK HUNT! (Remember that one? :D )
http://members.tripod.com/~mammola/duckhunt.sea.hqx

[Beej]

Originally posted by mischief
It was cool and they never kept up for the Mac. The most recent editions are eye-popping. It's got some serious advantages over basic 1st person shooters. That's where I mastered the "Tablet kill at 1Km". Oops, did I just Railgun your cockpit? (grin):D Oh man, Mech2 rocked. I installed 8.1 on an old machine the other day, just so I could play it again. Oh the memories... :)

[aafuss1]

Originally posted by AlphaTech


Don't count on that ever coming to OS X... Considering how the last version is over 4 years old (dated in 98 I believe), it doesn't reliably install under the latest versions of OS 9. The windblows version however, was done in 2000, with probably another update soon. Damn you bill gates!!


Well, it looks as MS now neglects its Works program-it's been at v 6 for 2 years- I hope they update it soon. Or Apple should release v 7 of theirs too.

[Beej]

Is Dark Castle around for X? I think I saw a demo of a re-make of it somewhere a while ago. But I think it was OS 9, and it was nowhere near as good as the original. You just can't beat B&W!

[kevine]

MacroMedia SoundEdit gets my vote. I would pay big bucks for that.

Others that I would like:

Risk
NetTrek
Talking Moose...actually this could be a really usefull app now. Imagine the moose telling you when you have new mail, when a site has been updated, when encoding or disk burning is finished, when your IM friends are online, perhaps stock alerts, weather, sports, other apps could script to it...so it could tell you that it's been X days since you ran Drive 10. Perhaps phrases could be shared over the Net...think Knowledge Navigator, only a moose.

But really SoundEdit is needed...oh, and of course RealPlayer

[gerror]

I would say virtual gamestation. or a ps2 emulator would be nice...

[Ensign Paris]

I want to see Snood for OSX available!

Snood is just such a cool game :) I also would like to see Mac C&C as well as DeadLock.

Ensign

[Tokyo]

Originally posted by ftaok
Oh, and I can play Shufflepuck Cafe in between innings. (Actually, I can't. It's System 6 and I don't remember it having MultiFinder) MultiFinder was in System 4, and was improved in System 6. See:

http://www.japan.lakeland.edu/cs100/poza/images/os/aboutfinder.gif


Tokyo

[Pelorus]

Halo

(Well..come on...it was "new" in 1999)

[iGav]

Director plain and simple..... this is the one package that stops me working natively in OSX....... and I'm not happy about how long it's taking Macromedia to sort it out...... :mad:

[dobbin]

I would love to see OS X versions of two old favourites from the mid 1980's - Chuckie Egg and the 'Repton' series. I played both on a BBC for most of my childhood!

Its amazing to think that those machines had only 16K of RAM (up to 128K in the Master) and no hard disk and yet the games were BRILLIANT.

I've still got Repton 3 and many other games on 5 1/4" floppies for the BBC and I would love to play them again.

I've got a PC version of Chuckie Egg which I can play using Virtual PC (Classic only for me until I upgrade).

Dobbin.

[Choppaface]

fontographer

epson drivers with full color control

some sort of TWAIN based app so I can finally use my scanner