Most of these links were collected before I actually owned a working Mac and are just sites I came across while surfing. Sites about or with software specifically for older Macs might rather be on the "Old Macs" page than here.

• Pure Mac - All the Software You Really Need
• Kaleidoscope is a shareware utility that lets Mac users change the appearance of their desktop. With Mac OS X it has more or less been rendered useless. BTW, technically you are violating your EULA if you change the OS X' appearance. A Kaleidoscope fan page.
• Richard Bannister has several programs, games and emulators.

Text Editors

It is not easy to find a pure ASCII text editor for the Mac. The links I had for these programs are now all broken, maybe you can still find them through Google.

• MicroMir is a text editor with hypertext features, intended for programmers. Download is only 73 kB.
• TideText, I fear, is for OS X only, I'm not quite sure. Download size is 132kB.

  RTF is great and all that, but sometimes you just need a simple, unstyled ASCII text editor. Enter TideText to the rescue! *All* it does is plain old ASCII. If you hold down Command- Option while dragging a file of any type onto its Dock icon, TideText will open it & display it as text.

  TideText has one lonely special feature that comes in handy at times - you can save a document as a template file by choosing 'Save As Document Template' from the File menu. You'll be prompted to enter a name for the template, and it'll be saved to ~/Application Support/TideText/ with a .tmpl extension. When you choose 'New From Document Template' from the File menu, a new window will open with the template's text filled in. You can use this to set up new 'empty' documents for HTML, perl, shell scripts or what have you.

• asciiMac is not a text editor, it is an extension that converts your Macinosh's screen into color ascii art on the fly. I found it when looking for an ASCII editor. It only works on PowerMacintoshes with PCI buses, so I could not try it out, and the screenshot page would not load, but I found the whole idea funny and thought I'd include it here.

After Dark

Featuring Berkeley Systems' trademark Flying Toasters, After Dark has been a popular screensaver package for PC and Mac users alike. Berkeley first produced the screensaver for the Macintosh a decade ago, and since then the package has gone through numerous revisions and changes. It's even spun off a stand-alone game package. Berkeley has diversified its product line in the intervening years, as well, focusing its attention on casual games like the immensely popular You Don't Know Jack series. — Berkeley: After Dark Ends with Mac OS 9, MacCentral

The flying toaster are my earliest Mac memory. I saw them first in 1993, when a friend of mine bought a Mac Classic, and they sure did impress me. Had I bought a computer at that time, it might have been a Mac. Because of the flying toasters.

• After Dark Modules by Simon Fraser
• Stephen's Screensavers