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What OS 9 only apps would you like ported to X?

princealfie

princealfie

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For me, there are two OS 9 only applications that I want to have ported to OS X support:

Hypercard! (hyperstudio I guess)

and

PROMT MT Russian-English software...

and you guys? ;)
 
Is it called 'voices' where you can type something in simple text and then get the Mac to read it back in a variety of strange computer voices. For fun only I guess!
 
Aeronautical said:
Is it called 'voices' where you can type something in simple text and then get the Mac to read it back in a variety of strange computer voices. For fun only I guess!
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System Pref > Speech > Text to Speech. Select a key combo then turn it on. Highlight some text. Press key combo. Boom!
 
It's not really an application but a feature (and not OS9-specific) - windowshading! I currently use WindowShadeX, which is worth every penny. But it would be nice to have a "native" solution.
 
cricket graph

mac write pro

claris draw pro (or was it called mac draw pro?)


crippled versions of them were part of apple works. so porting them should be easy.

i would be willing to pay $49 for each of them!



both would nicely complement PAGES and KEYNOTE
 
I'm a geek.

SimCity 2000
SimTower
SimCinema

I haven't used OS 9 since 2000 though. If I've gotten this far, so I guess it really doesn't matter anymore.
 
andiwm2003 said:
cricket graph

mac write pro

claris draw pro (or was it called mac draw pro?)


crippled versions of them were part of apple works. so porting them should be easy.

i would be willing to pay $49 for each of them!



both would nicely complement PAGES and KEYNOTE
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Check out Intaglio. www.purgatorydesign.com

It is $89, but it has been worth it for me. It has the same (or similar) keyboard shortcuts as claris works, and is very snappy for drawing, yet OS X native.

PS I am not affiliated with them - I just own a copy of the software and love it.
 
nsbio said:
Check out Intaglio. www.purgatorydesign.com

It is $89, but it has been worth it for me. It has the same (or similar) keyboard shortcuts as claris works, and is very snappy for drawing, yet OS X native.

PS I am not affiliated with them - I just own a copy of the software and love it.
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thanks, i looked at their site a while ago. i think it's a good replacement for mac draw pro. it's on my list of programs i consider to buy with my next mac (hopefully a mbp). $89 is a bit steep but i can live with it.
 
Well, somebody just released an OSX rewrite of SoundApp, which would have been on my list (although frankly with iTunes as good as it is now the only reason I was interested in it was its ability to play weird-ass sound formats).

Other than that... Super Tetris and Loom. X-Wing would be awesome too, but only if it was a full-on re-release with slightly beefed up graphics.

Ooh, and Sam and Max! Man, LucasArts has SO lost its way...

Those, and QT plugins for Indeo 3.2, 4, and 5 video--VLC seems to be edging toward support, but nothing functional yet. That's really the main reason I keep Classic around these days, actually.
 
All the applications I miss from my Mac OS 9 days are games, as it turns out.

TaskMaker
Tomb of the TaskMaker
Fungus
RoboWar
BeamWars
Realmz
 
Voice login. By Apple, too.

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princealfie said:
No Mac OS X version of this? Wow.
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Nope... I keep on holding out hope though. I thought that Jaguar might be the first to include it (I always considered 10.0 and 10.1 to be just making OS X, 10.2 the actual adding features to a new, shiny, good, OS) but it has been, well, about seven years and... nothing.

It was supposedly able to tell the difference between a recording and your voice. Never saw a test of it, nor a website, but oh well.
 
Mac-81

I want Mac-81. A desktop version of the TI-81 calculator.

That and the cool Newton program that would make the Apple in your menu bar fall onto the head of a picture of Isaac Newton.

:)
 
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