Screen Shot Gallery -- Macintosh® Shareware

During the "golden age" of Macintosh computing from the early-1980's to the mid-1990's, if you were searching for an inexpensive shareware or Public Domain program you had two choices -- you could visit your favorite computer software store and browse racks of shareware programs on 3½" floppy disks, or, from the comfort of your own computer, download a Macintosh shareware program from your favorite bulletin board service (BBS).     The shareware "try before you buy" concept offers users free trials of software. Most commercial software companies will not let you return products once their shrinkwrapped packages have been opened.     After finding the shareware program that best meets your needs, to both obtain the full-featured program free of "nag" screens and to support the authors who offer these low-cost software alternatives, it is only right to "register" the program by paying the author's registration fee. Shareware programs can cost tens or even hundreds of times less than comparable commercial software.

Productivity     In the 1980's and early 1990's, Macintosh productivity software was expensive. Shareware productivity software offered a less expensive alternative.

MacSchedule 1.0 Copyright © 1987 Bob Petty A scheduling productivity tool, MacSchedule can help you plan and schedule projects from preliminary design to completion. Features include a pre-designed project layout, start and end timeline symbols, two line fill patterns, undo, cut, copy, paste, clear, insert, delete, sample project files, and more. Total install size: 101K

MacFlow 3.0.1 Copyright © 1989 Synergistic Applications, Inc. Create simple or sophisticated flowcharts with MacFlow. Easy to use, yet containing advanced features such as a toolbar with flowchart symbols that provides drag-and-drop placement on the document work area. Symbols can be dynamically sized and text can be automatically centered within the symbols. Direction arrows between symbols are placed by dragging with the mouse from the first symbol to the second. Text can automatically be placed within the direction arrow by clicking the arrow and typing. Other features include snap-to grid, 9 pen styles, shadowing, line nodes, right angle connectors, reduce view 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, insert file, extract selection, turn symbols into program launch buttons, select all, duplicate, select symbols/lines/all, cut, copy, paste, clear, symbol librarian, save stationary, print top chart, print nested charts, print all charts, and more. Total install size: 233K

Utility -- Disk Utility      In the 1980's and early 1990's, several software companies created utilities to perform "low-level" disk functions such as sector editing, file defragmentation, sector pattern testing, disk initialization, low-level formatting, etc. These utilities used to come standard in utility suites such as Central Point Software's PC Tools and Peter Norton Computing's, later acquired by Symantec, The Norton Utilities. Other software companies also created similar utilities.     In the mid-1990's, many of these low-level utilities were gradually phased out of the home consumer market and became reserved for "forensic" companies.

Fedit Plus 1.0.4 Copyright © 1986 John Mitchell Fedit Plus is a shareware disk and file editor that can operate in both ASCII text mode and hex mode. Features include open volume/file, edit/write boot block, rename/delete file, print sector, read sector (enter sector to read), read next/ previous sector, write sector, write extended, ASCII/hex modify, undo, select data/resource fork, ASCII/hex/tag/repeat search, set end of file, reverse forks, display sector in ASCII/hex, display sector info, display header information, sector map, volume directory, file header, file sector map, file finder attributes, next/ previous display buffer, fragmentation index, specify display buffer, multiple sector read/write, link to data/resource fork, write sectors to file, create file, select output file, validate tags, recreate volume map, recover deleted files and more. This version was released on one 400K floppy. Total install size: 66K

Word Processor     Computer-based word processors revolutionized the way we create documents and made the typewriter obsolete.     The Mac's graphical environment introduced yet another revolution in document creation -- full-time WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). This allows you to see exactly what your document looks like in printed form as you work on it. Other features such as scalable fonts, standardized menus, hypertext help files, copy/cut/paste, drag-and-drop, single-click toolbars, etc. all contributed to making document creation easier and better.

Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhanced for Macintosh Copyright © 1997 Corel Corporation This is the last version of WordPerfect for Macintosh released by Corel Corporation. It features a spell checker, thesaurus, Grammatik, QuickCorrect, word count, Find/ Change, Make-It-Fit, hyphenation, outlining, kerning, macros, sort, headers, footers, equation editor, insert graphics, text box, overlay, watermark, bullet list, tables, columns, document zoom, go to, merge, bookmarks, text alignment, HTML support, print preview, print envelope, reveal codes, password protection, toolbar, ruler bar with editable tab settings, status bar with document position indicator, on-line help and much more. It also has a full-featured graphics editor and Corel OrgChart Builder 1.0. This version was released as a freeware Internet download from Corel's website. Total install size: 32.64MB

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