How To Turn System 6 Into System 7 With freeware

 

 

 

Although System 6 seems Jurrasic to some people, it's really not that far removed from System 7 functionality. In fact, with a little searching, one can find just about all the software needed to give System 6 Macs the same features as System 7. Here are a few examples:

hierDA - gives you hierarchial menus (Apple Menu Options) under system 6.
MacTCP 2.06 and ConfigPPP 2.01 - TCP software that will get a System 6 Mac on the web.
INIT/cdev 2.0 - an extensions manager for System 6.
Date cdev - a better date formatter than the built in one.
Moire - simple screen saver.
Black and White Icons Part I
Black and White Icons Part II
Snap-To - snaps your cursor to the default 'OK' buttons for faster productivity.
WindowShade - Gives you the popular window shade effect that came with 7.5 but it works under 6.x and up.

Desk Accessories (1.8mb) - includes the following DA's:

• HDBackup - quick and dirty backup utility
• Acta - outline maker
• Art Grabber + - grabs MacPaint files from the Apple Menu
• Copy II Mac™ 4.5 - Disk Copy from mid 80's
• Display Message - cool scrolling lights effect of scrolling text
• Flow - screen saver (I couldn't get it to stop wihtout rebooting!)
• Mousometer - great for programmers - tells you the exact coordinates of your mouse as you move it
• Multi-Scrap - multiple scrapbook
• Notes Calendar - simple and fast calendar
• RedWriter - simple and fast text editor
• Screen Maker - make startup screens
• Stars DA - screen saver that DOES stop

INITS and Cdevs (Extensions and Control Panels)

• WDEF 1.2init - a makeover of your Finder windows - looks kinda like Unix's Motif
• RamDisk+ 2.01 - gives you ram disk capabilities under system 6
• ClickChange™ - another GUI makeover - choose new cursors, sounds, OS 8, Next and Winblows scroll bars, Next, Lisa, Windoze windows choices, and more - very cool!

Application bundle:

• Address Book
• Bat Filer
• DiskFlash - flashes iconin menu bar when accessing your hard drive (Norton does this too)
• LightningPaint - great freeware paint program
• Master Juggler - font mover
• Remember? - Simple ToDo file
• Stuffit Lite

Fix Heap folder

• FixHeap - purges the system heap (lets go of stuck ram)
• Mac OS Purge - same as above
• MemMapper 1.3 - for programmers

Juggler Utilities

• FKey/Sound Mover™
• Font/DA Mover
• Font/DA Utility™
• Juggler Reducer
• MJ File Finder
• MJ Settings Copier
• Resource Resolver™
• Set File Count
• Sound Converter™
• Sound Fix

Odds and Ends

• Canfield/Klondike - Solitaire
• Columns ][ - Tetris knock off
• Das Calendar 1.0.1
• Dog Age Calculator
• Dropper - tetris like game
• Golf Analyst
• MacAmortize 1.2
• Madness - RAGE! - game
• Menu Planner
• PopChar 2.5.2 - key caps type DA
• Set Clock 3.3 - dials a modem to set the clock
• Sky Travel - very cool for space nuts - calculate space travel
• ZoomBar - This INIT makes zoomboxes shrink windows (to just a title bar) when the shift key is held down when the zoombox is pressed; it shrinks ALL windows (and stacks them up) when the option key is held down. Handy if you have lots of windows open.

General utilities (1.1 mb download).

• BackSplash II - Desktop pictures for System 6.
• Mac MakeOver - change the window and border colors (system 6 and 7)
• Mac Security - permenently delete files or make them invisible
• ThumbNail - make thumb nails of your pics so you can see what they look like in a glance.