Shareware is software that you can try before you buy.
After a trial period, usually a week or two, you have to decide whether to register it or toss it. In some cases, certain features may be disabled until you register, or you may see annoying reminder messages until you register. In other cases, it may be entirely on an honor system. Usually the fee is simply money, but the author may ask for a postcard, a box of chocolate, a donation to a charity, or anything else.
Freeware is software that may be used and distributed freely. Usually the author retains the copyright.
When an author places software in the public domain, that means that he or she has explicitly given up all rights to control its use. This term is often used incorrectly in reference to shareware or freeware.
What's in the Connectivity Folder:
Bookmark
Location on the CDROM -MacAddict:Shareware:Connectivity:Bookmark
Save your place during a long scroll thru a Navigater document, return there anytime you want.
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Connectivity:Plug Master
Plug Master works much like the Extensions Manager in System 7.5. Once configured, its main window displays a list of all plug-ins you have installed for your web browser. Before launching your browser, you can use Plug Master to turn these plug-ins on or off.
Location on the CDROM -MacAddict:Shareware:Connectivity:Talker
The Talker plug-in enables web pages to talk to Macintosh and PowerMacintosh users, using Netscape 2.0 and Apple Computer's "English Text-to-Speech" software.
WhurlPlug 1.0d6 (ftp://ftp.info.apple.com)
Location on the CDROM -MacAddict:Shareware:Connectivity:WhurlPlug
A Power Macintosh-native* Netscape 2.0+ plug-in for viewing and interacting with 3DMF models embedded in a HTML document on the Web.
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Creative Tools:Screen Ruler
Screen Ruler is a great virtual ruler ready to be dragged around on the desktop. Very useful to measure things on the computer screen in Pixels, Inches, Picas and Centimeters. Accurate measurements with dynamic cursor display, vertical or horizontal orientation, with a custom length feature.
Simple Text Color Menu 2.1.4 (ftp://ftp.amug.org/info-mac/text)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Creative Tools:Simple Text Color
Freeware
A drag & drop utility that installs an extra cool Color menu and an extra useful Goodies menu inside Apple's SimpleText text editor (versions 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 only). Install to read this file in glorious color!!
TypeIndexer Demo (http://users.aol.com/tindexer/)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Creative Tools:TypeIndexer
This remarkable Macintosh font utility will find, sort, catalog and sample all PostScript fonts WITHOUT having to open or install them in the system folder
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Gin
Three levels of play (only one in the unregistered version), a great interface that rivals the look and feel of a real hand of cards, and many shortcuts and cheats to enhance play.
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Droids
Fun strategy game where you battle against successively more intelligent and adaptive androids to regain control of Terra. The most primitive of the android models, the Sexus, is highly deterministic and not all that intelligent. But science advances and so do androids.
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Powerball
Powerball is a breakout styled arcade game. It offers you fast, smooth animation, nice 256 color graphics, music, sound and plenty of fun during gameplay. Check it out!
ShatterBat (http://www.antennahead.com )
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:ShatterBat
Shoot the bats, avoid the nefarious Mister Bob, collect the powerups, become disoriented, race the clock, experience a panic response. It's shareware -- try it yourself!
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Smart Move
This game is colorful and contains interesting graphics. Up to four players can compete, using their knowledge of U.S. geography, such as naming state capitals.
Space Debris v1.4 (http://aoife.indigo.ie/~titan/)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Space Debris
A modernized Crystal Quest type of game.
Space Gypsy (http://gossamer.wheatonma.edu/users/bcote/syzgycult/home.html)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Space Gypsy
The story and plot are pretty straight forward: you are a bloodthirsty and money hungry merchant trying to blast your way our of the Solar System without being utterly destroyed by the invading aliens. You move your ship around, pick up goodies and points, and try to blast the living daylights out of just about anything that moves before it can return the favor.
Star Fighters 1.01 (http://www.ruralnet.net/.au~rmurphy)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:Star Fighters
In Star Fighters you get the choice of choosing between 6 ship types (or a few more if you know the cheats). Each ship has it's own advantages over the others. To finish the game you have to defeat 7 other ships
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:Fun & Games:X-Words
X-Words is a meta-Scrabble-like word game for 1 to 4 players
What's in the General Folder:
Are You A Space Alien?
(ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/Info-Mac.Archive)
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Space Alien
Are you a space alien trapped in a human body? Find out today with the interactive "Space Alien Evaluator" you'll find on this one-of-a-kind HyperCard stack. After you know for sure, you can involve yourself in the most unusual space alien story ever told.
Décor 3.0.3
(ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/Info-Mac.Archive)
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Décor
It allows you to display a picture in the background instead of the dull desktop pattern
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Diktafon
Records sounds to your hard drive and features a convenient built-in text editor. Diktafon is useful for transcribing or dictation purposes. For instance, you want to send an audio letter to your mother, but you also want to keep a written record of it. Or perhaps you have recorded a conversation or TV program on tape, and you want to write down the dialogue.
Flag Folders
ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/Info-Mac.Archive)
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Flag Folders
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Folder Icon Maker
Folder Icon Maker If you'd like to create a custom folder icon that contains a miniature version of an icon of a file in the folder, this utility will do it. (I used this to put an apple on the "Shareware" folder - I love it!)
Ged's Copland Folder Collection
http://www.members.aol.com/gedeonm
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Ged's Folders
The enclosed folder contains 11 icons based on the upcoming MacOS System 8. Ged has customized the basic design of the Sys8 folders to make them both "Cool" and "Neat" It's Ged's folders I used for our Shareware Categories.
ScreenShot 2.5
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:ScreenShot
A screen capture utility that allows you to grab an image of any area of your screen and save it to disk in several file formats, place it on the Clipboard or in the Scrapbook for easy pasting in your favorite applications, or print it, all with only a few keystrokes. What's so great about it is that it is available at any time, in almost any application, just by pressing a user-defined hot key.
Seasonal Stuff
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:Seasonal Stuff
Use christmas icons, play XMas Gunshy, create a Star of David, put some lights and songs on your computer. GET THE SPIRIT!!!
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:SelectDidjitIcons
Excellent collection of 25 beautifully hand-crafted 3-D Folder and Disk icons. Those of you who are already familiar with SelectColorIcons won't need to be convinced that this is a worthwhile download.
T2 Icon Gallery (http://home.umi.or.jp/~tsunori/)
Location on the CD-ROM-MacAddict:Shareware:General:T2 Icon Gallery
Location on the CD-Rom-MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:Aaron 1.5.1
aron is a system extension and font combination which brings part of the Copland interface to your current System 7 Macintosh. Copland is the next generation Apple OS for which we are all waiting with bated breath.
Location on the CD-Rom-MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:Aaron 1.5.1 HT Patch
Replaces the "Bluish" 3D folder icons of Aaron to the black Hi-Tech look that's been the second-most publicized interface design for the upcoming OS 8.
Location on the CD-Rom-MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:Boris's Aaron Patch 2.5.1
This patch will replace the standard "Copland-look" icons provided by the original Aaron extension version by new ones with more colours and fun. Just in order to add the little bit of "pizzaz" to your desktop & improve your relations with your machine.
CacheSaver 1.0.2
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:CacheSaver
CacheSaver periodically saves (or ”flushes”) the disk cache, thus minimizing data loss should your Macintosh crash while you are working. You can set CacheSaver to flush the cache whenever your Mac is idle for more than a specific amount of time, or it can do it automatically at regular intervals. CacheSaver also provides a hotkey so you can flush the disk cache manually.
Church Windows 1.2 (ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/gui/)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:Church Windows 1.2
Church Windows is a Control Panel which allows you to change the style of windows used by your Mac (so that they look like Motif, Windows 95, Copland 3D, Silicon Graphics IRIX, etc). It also allows you to change the way windows are created, positioned, and moved around the screen.
File Buddy™ 3.4.6
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:File Buddy
A file-management utility that lets you find, modify, move and copy files with ease and speedworking with files and folders.
NewLook™ 2.6
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:NewLook
NewLook is a control panel that gives buttons, radio buttons and checkboxes a colorized, 3-D look where text appears inscribed onto buttons. It also allows you to change the various window tinge colors to complete your interface makeover.
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:NewStuff
A freeware extension that brings an OS8 feature to Sys7 users; the Finders "New Folder" command is replaced with a submenu that contains anything from blank text documents to empty font suitcases. customizing is as easy as moving stuff in & out of the "New Documents" folder created in your System Folder by NewStuff.
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:SquelchSysBeep
Do y'all find system alert noises annoying? Well, do something about it!
Tattle Tech 2.52 (ftp://ftp.decismkr.com/dms)
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:Tattle Tech 2.52
TattleTech (formerly TattleTale) provides complete information (over 800 items) about your computer. The information can be viewed on screen, printed, written to a text file, or output in database-readable format. (Shareware $15-95 )
Tidy It Up!
Location on the CDROM - MacAddict:Shareware:System Utilities:Tidy It Up
Tidy It Up arranges System files in functional groupings, alphabetizing the files within groupings, creating dummy folders to serve as headers, and coloring files to indicate their function. it comes with help files and preference options.(Shareware $30 )
