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  • Re: Free Macintosh Software

    From Alan B@21:1/5 to David Kennedy on Sat Jan 25 09:35:31 2025
    On 2025-01-23, David Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 22/01/2025 17:40, Alan B wrote:
    Randy Singer has just updated his list of free macOS software. I'm familiar >> and have used quite a few of the items listed but several are new to me!

    <http://www.macattorney.com/free.html>

    Thanks Alan, very useful

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I
    think it was maccentral.com ?

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to David Kennedy on Sun Jan 26 09:17:22 2025
    On 2025-01-26, David Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 25/01/2025 09:35, Alan B wrote:
    On 2025-01-23, David Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 22/01/2025 17:40, Alan B wrote:
    Randy Singer has just updated his list of free macOS software. I'm familiar
    and have used quite a few of the items listed but several are new to me! >>>>
    <http://www.macattorney.com/free.html>

    Thanks Alan, very useful

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I
    think it was maccentral.com ?

    That rings a bell (deep in the recesses though)

    Yes it was - just found it has an entry on Wikipedia!

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCentral>

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Bernd Froehlich@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jan 27 07:50:27 2025
    On 25. Jan 2025 at 10:35:31 CET, "Alan B"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I think it was maccentral.com ?

    And <https://www.pure-mac.com/>

    Abandoned since 2020 but if you are looking for older software it might
    still help.

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Bernd Froehlich on Mon Jan 27 09:17:43 2025
    On 27 Jan 2025 at 07:50:27 GMT, "Bernd Froehlich" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 25. Jan 2025 at 10:35:31 CET, "Alan B" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I
    think it was maccentral.com ?

    And <https://www.pure-mac.com/>

    Abandoned since 2020 but if you are looking for older software it might
    still help.

    I see Smultron gets a mention. It used to be my text editor of choice but I needed an app that could also be activated via the command line, so I switched to BBedit.

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Bernd Froehlich on Wed Jan 29 10:51:24 2025
    On 2025-01-27, Bernd Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 25. Jan 2025 at 10:35:31 CET, "Alan B"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I
    think it was maccentral.com ?

    And <https://www.pure-mac.com/>

    Abandoned since 2020 but if you are looking for older software it might
    still help.

    Another text editor I used to use was SubEthaEdit. It seems it's still free, maintained and also available via the App Store.

    <https://subethaedit.net>

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Bernd Froehlich on Sat Feb 1 09:40:17 2025
    On 2025-01-27, Bernd Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 25. Jan 2025 at 10:35:31 CET, "Alan B"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I
    think it was maccentral.com ?

    And <https://www.pure-mac.com/>

    Abandoned since 2020 but if you are looking for older software it might
    still help.

    Randy has now referenced some other sites if you're interested:

    <http://www.macupdate.com/>

    <https://download.cnet.com/mac/>
    (formerly Versiontracker.com)

    <http://www.macshareware.com/>

    <http://mac.softpedia.com/>

    <https://www.macintoshrepository.org>

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    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 1 17:20:44 2025
    On 1 Feb 2025 at 16:43:57 GMT, "David Kennedy" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 01/02/2025 09:40, Alan B wrote:
    On 2025-01-27, Bernd Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 25. Jan 2025 at 10:35:31 CET, "Alan B"
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Years ago there used to be a great site for all sorts of Mac software. I >>>> think it was maccentral.com ?

    And <https://www.pure-mac.com/>

    Abandoned since 2020 but if you are looking for older software it might
    still help.

    Randy has now referenced some other sites if you're interested:

    <http://www.macupdate.com/>

    <https://download.cnet.com/mac/>
    (formerly Versiontracker.com)

    <http://www.macshareware.com/>

    <http://mac.softpedia.com/>

    <https://www.macintoshrepository.org>

    Also :-

    www.macintoshgarden.org

    Yes I've used that site fairly recently to get a Mac OS 9 installation CD
    image plus a ROM file when setting up SheepShaver.

    http://www.macattorney.com

    Well worth bookmarking.

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    Cheers, Alan

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