This is a list of Apple Macintosh software which no longer runs on current machines. For example, the software may require Mac OS 9

Mac OS 9

Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's Mac OS before the launch of Mac OS X. Introduced on October 23, 1999, Apple positioned it as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever," highlighting Sherlock 2's Internet search capabilities, integration with Apple's free online services known as...

 which does not run on Apple's current Intel machines. Note that most old programs can still be run using emulator

Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software or both that duplicates the functions of a first computer system in a different second computer system, so that the behavior of the second system closely resembles the behavior of the first system...

s, such as SheepShaver

SheepShaver

SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator originally designed for BeOS and Linux. The name is a play on ShapeShifter, a Macintosh II emulator for AmigaOS , which is in turn not to be confused with a third-party preference pane for Mac OS X with the same name...

, vMac

VMac

vMac was an open source emulator for Mac OS, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Linux / Unix, and other platforms. Although vMac has been abandoned, Mini vMac, an improved spinoff of vMac, is currently developed. vMac and Mini vMac emulate a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions...

 or Basilisk II

Basilisk II

Basilisk II is an open source software emulator which emulates the 680x0-based Apple Macintosh computer on a variety of operating systems, including BeOS, Linux, AmigaOS, Windows NT, Mac OS X and even on the Sony PSP....

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For a list of current programs, see List of Macintosh software, or visit Apple's database at the Macintosh Products Guide. Third party databases include VersionTracker, MacUpdate and iUseThis. Since a list like this might grow too big and become unmanageable, this list is confined to those programs for which a Wikipedia article exists.

Web Browsers

• Cyberdog
  Cyberdog
  Cyberdog was an internet suite developed by Apple Computer for the Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced as a beta in February 1996 and abandoned in March 1997. The last version, Cyberdog 2.0, was released on April 28, 1997...
  
  
• Internet Explorer
  Internet Explorer
  Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
  
  
• MacLynx
• MacWeb
  MacWeb
  MacWeb was an early Mac OS-only web browser for 68k and PowerPC Apple Macintosh computers, developed by TradeWave between 1994 and 1996....
  
  
• MacWWW
  MacWWW
  MacWWW, also known as Samba, is an early minimalist web browser from 1992 meant to run on Macintosh computers. It was the first web browser for the Mac OS platform, and the first for any non-Unix operating system. MacWWW tries to emulate the design of WorldWideWeb. Unlike modern browsers it opens...
  
  
• NCSA Mosaic
• Netscape Communicator
  Netscape Communicator
  Netscape Communicator was an Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation. Initially released in June 1997, Netscape Communicator 4.0 was the successor to Netscape Navigator 3.x and included more groupware features intended to appeal to enterprises.- Editions :Netscape...
  
  
• Netscape Navigator
  Netscape Navigator
  Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared...
  
  

Networking and telecommunications

• eWorld
  EWorld
  eWorld was an online service operated by Apple Inc. between June 1994 and March 1996. The services included email , news, and a bulletin board system...
  
  
• AppleLink
  AppleLink
  AppleLink was the name of both Apple Computer's online service for its dealers, third party developers, and users, and the client software used to access it. Prior to the commercialization of the Internet, AppleLink was a popular service for Mac and Apple IIGS users...
  
  
• FreePPP
  FreePPP
  FreePPP is a Point to Point Protocol implementation for computers running Mac OS prior to Mac OS X. FreePPP was widely considered the first working and most stable version of PPP for Apple Macintosh and led many PPP internet service providers to support Macintosh users for the first time.Besides...
  
  
• MacTerminal
  MacTerminal
  MacTerminal was the first telecommunications and terminal emulation application software program available for Mac OS. MacTerminal enabled users to connect via modem or serial port to bulletin board systems and online services , and to other computers...
  
  
• ZTerm
  Zterm
  ZTerm is a shareware terminal emulator for Apple Macintosh computer systems. It was introduced in 1992 running on Macintosh Operating System 7 and has been updated to run on the latest version of Mac OS X....
  
  

Developer tools and IDEs

• Apple Media Tool
  Apple Media Tool
  The Apple Media Tool was a multimedia authoring tool and associated programming environment sold by Apple in the late 1990s. It was primarily aimed at producing multimedia presentations for distribution on CD-ROM and was aimed at graphic designers who did not have programming experience...
  
  
• AppWare
  AppWare
  AppWare was a rapid application development system for Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS based on a simple graphical programming language. AppWare was developed by Joseph Firmage and marketed by Serius, a company started by Firmage in 1989...
  
  
• CodeWarrior
  CodeWarrior
  CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment for the creation of software that runs on a number of embedded systems. Prior to the acquisition of the product by Freescale Semiconductor, versions existed for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube,...
  
  
• HyperCard
  HyperCard
  HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written...
  
   - Classic-only IDE
• MacApp
  MacApp
  MacApp was Apple Computer's primary object oriented application framework for the Mac OS for much of the 1990s. First released in 1985, it is arguably the first such system to be widely used, notably on a microcomputer platform...
  
  
• Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
  Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
  Macintosh Programmer's Workshop or MPW, is a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS, written by Apple Computer. For Macintosh developers, it was one of the primary tools for building applications for System 7.x and Mac OS 8.x and 9.x. Initially, MPW was sold as a commercial product...
  
  
• MTropolis
  MTropolis
  mTropolis was an award-winning, open-architecture multimedia programming application aimed at enabling rapid development of multimedia titles. It was developed by mFactory and introduced in 1995. It introduced object-oriented concepts such as reusable objects, modifiers and behaviors into the...
  
  
• Oracle Media Objects
  Oracle Media Objects
  Oracle Media Objects, formerly Oracle Card, was a multi-media software development tool for developing multi-media applications, with similar functionality and appearance to Apple Computer' HyperCard....
  
  
• THINK C
  THINK C
  THINK C was an extension of ANSI C for Mac OS developed by THINK Technologies; although named Lightspeed C in the original mid-1986 release, it was later renamed THINK C. THINK Technologies was later acquired by Symantec Corporation and the product continued to be developed by the original author,...
  
  
• VideoWorks
• Microsoft BASIC
  Microsoft BASIC
  Microsoft BASIC was the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC, and the first high level programming language available for the MITS Altair 8800 hobbyist microcomputer....
  
  

Graphics, layout, and desktop publishing

• MacDraw
  MacDraw
  MacDraw was a vector based drawing application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacDraw was one of the first WYSIWYG drawing programs that could be used in collaboration with MacWrite. MacDraw was useful for drawing technical diagrams and floorplans...
  
  
• MacPaint
  MacPaint
  MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...
  
  
• CorelDRAW
  CorelDRAW
  CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite...
  
  
• CricketPaint
  CricketPaint
  CricketPaint was a second generation 1-bit painting software program for the Apple Macintosh by Cricket Software. It followed MacPaint and was a competitor to Silicon Beach Software's SuperPaint...
  
  
• CricketDraw
  CricketDraw
  CricketDraw was a second generation vector graphics creation software program for the Apple Macintosh by Cricket Software. It followed MacDraw and was a contemporary of MacDraft and to some extent, Silicon Beach Software's SuperPaint....
  
  
• FullPaint
  FullPaint
  FullPaint was a software program for the Apple Macintosh for graphics creation. It was developed by Ann Arbor Softworks and was sold as a more powerful alternative to Apple's MacPaint...
  
  
• FullWrite Professional
  FullWrite Professional
  FullWrite Professional was a word processor application for the Apple Macintosh, released in late 1988 by Ashton-Tate. Though it was released a year later than promised and had a number of problems, it developed a faithful following and some amount of commercial success...
  
  
• SuperPaint
  SuperPaint (Macintosh)
  SuperPaint was a graphics program capable of both bitmap painting and vector drawing simultaneously. It was originally written by William Snyder, published by Silicon Beach Software and originally released in 1986 for the Apple Macintosh. William Snyder wrote and designed the program from his house...
  
  
• Ready,Set,Go!
  Ready,Set,Go!
  Ready,Set,Go! is a software package for desktop publishing. It was originally developed for Apple Computer's Macintosh by Manhattan Graphics, and it was one of the earliest desktop publishing packages available for that platform...
  
  
• Gryphon Software Morph
  Gryphon Software Morph
  -Morph:Gryphon Software's Morph was the first commercially available morphing software program for personal computers. Gryphon Software was founded in 1991 by Duane Maxwell, Bridget K...
  
  
• Digital Darkroom
  Digital Darkroom
  Digital Darkroom was an innovative, award-winning Apple Macintosh graphics program for editing gray-scale photos. It was published by Silicon Beach Software in 1987. It was programmed by Ed Bomke and Don Cone....
  
  

Office and productivity

• AppleWorks
  AppleWorks
  AppleWorks refers to two different office suite products, both of which are now discontinued. Originally, AppleWorks was an integrated software package for the Apple II platform, released in 1984 by Apple Computer...
  
  - originally ClarisWorks
• Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works is an integrated package software that is produced by Microsoft. Works is smaller, less expensive, and has fewer features than Microsoft Office or other major office suites. Its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system...
  
  
• MindWrite
  MindWrite
  MindWrite is an early word processor designed for Macintosh computers. It was published by DeltaPoint.It appeared after MacWrite and has several features that make it appealing to users. It can create multi-level outlines and show them in full, only the first-level outline level or any number of...
  
  
• OpenDoc
  OpenDoc
  OpenDoc was a multi-platform software componentry framework standard for compound documents, intended as an alternative to Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding ....
  
  
• StatView
  StatView
  StatView was a statistics application released for Apple Macintosh computers in 1985.StatView was one of the first statistics applications to have a graphical user interface, capitalizing on the Macintosh's...
  
  
• Taste (software)
  Taste (software)
  Taste is a Macintosh word processor that combined a number of basic features from page layout software, just a "taste" of it, to build a unique solution to preparing documents. Taste was originally offered by DeltaPoint, the publishers of the famed MindWrite, but was eventually spun off to a 3rd...
  
  
• WriteNow
  WriteNow
  WriteNow was one of the two original word processor applications developed for the launch of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, and was the primary word processor for computers manufactured by NeXT....
  
  
• MacWrite
  MacWrite
  MacWrite was a word processor application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. It was the first such program that was widely available to the public to offer WYSIWYG operation, with multiple fonts and styles...
  
  
• MacProject
  MacProject
  MacProject was a project management and scheduling business application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. MacProject was one of the first major business tools for the Macintosh which enabled users to calculate the "critical path" to completion and estimate costs in...
  
  
• Microsoft Project
  Microsoft Project
  Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...
  
   for Macintosh
• Nisus Writer
  Nisus Writer
  Nisus Writer, originally Nisus, is a word processing program for the Apple Macintosh. The program is available in two varieties: Nisus Writer Express, and Nisus Writer Pro....
  
  
• WordPerfect for Macintosh

Business

• Claris Resolve
  Claris Resolve
  Claris Resolve was a spreadsheet software program for the Apple Macintosh. It was released by Claris in 1991 and sold until 1994.In an effort to flesh out their software suite, in the early 90's Claris wanted to introduce a spreadsheet application, and decided to buy an existing one...
  
  
• CricketGraph
  CricketGraph
  CricketGraph was a graphic software program for the Apple Macintosh by Cricket Software made available through 1996. It could take tabulated data and create common business and statistics graphs such as bar chart, pie chart, scatter plots and radial plots...
  
  
• Informix Wingz
  Informix Wingz
  Wingz was a spreadsheet program sold by Informix in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally developed for the Macintosh, it was later distributed on Microsoft Windows, OS/2, NextStep and several other commercial flavors of Unix...
  
  
• Lotus 123
• Multiplan
  MultiPlan
  Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft. Known initially by the code name "EP" , it was introduced in 1982 as a competitor for VisiCalc....
  
  
• Lotus Jazz
  Lotus Jazz
  Lotus Jazz was an office suite for the Apple Macintosh, released in 1985, after the substantial success of Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM-compatible PC...
  
  

Utilities

• Disinfectant
  Disinfectant (software)
  Disinfectant was a popular anti-virus software program for the classic Macintosh operating system. It was originally released as freeware by John Norstad in 1988...
  
   - Antivirus
• Extensis Suitcase
• Fastback
  FastBack (software)
  FastBack was a software application developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for backing up IBM PC and Macintosh computers. It was originally written by Fifth Generation Systems Inc, a company located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
  
  

Operating systems

• A/UX
  A/UX
  A/UX was Apple Computer’s implementation of the Unix operating system for some of their Macintosh computers. The later versions of A/UX ran on the Macintosh II, Quadra and Centris series of machines as well as the SE/30. A/UX was first released in 1988, with the final version released in 1995...
  
  
• Apple DOS
  Apple DOS
  Apple DOS refers to operating systems for the Apple II series of microcomputers from late 1978 through early 1983. Apple DOS had three major releases: DOS 3.1, DOS 3.2, and DOS 3.3; each one of these three releases was followed by a second, minor "bug-fix" release, but only in the case of Apple DOS...
  
  
• Darwin
  Darwin (operating system)
  Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects....
  
  , the BSD-licensed core of Mac OS X
• System Software 6
• System 7
  System 7 (Macintosh)
  System 7 is a single-user graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers. It was introduced on May 13, 1991 by Apple Computer. It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating system until it was succeeded by Mac OS 8 in 1997...
  
  
• Mac OS 8
  Mac OS 8
  Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It represented the largest overhaul of the Mac OS since the release of System 7, some six years previously. It puts more emphasis on color than previous operating systems...
  
  
• Mac OS 9
  Mac OS 9
  Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's Mac OS before the launch of Mac OS X. Introduced on October 23, 1999, Apple positioned it as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever," highlighting Sherlock 2's Internet search capabilities, integration with Apple's free online services known as...
  
  

Children's/Educational Software

• Creative Writer
  Creative Writer
  Creative Writer is a word-processing program created by Microsoft's Microsoft Kids subsidiary in 1993. Using this program, which is specifically targeted at children, it is possible to create documents such as letters, posters, flyers and stories complete with different fonts, Clip art, WordArt and...
  
  
• Fine Artist
• Living Books
• Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel

Games

• Enchanted Scepters
  Enchanted Scepters
  Enchanted Scepters is an early point-and-click adventure game, released in 1984.It was created with the World Builder adventure authoring system released to consumers in 1986. The player must find the four fire, earth, air and water scepters hidden across the Kingdom, and return them to the Wizard...
  
   (1985)
• World Builder
  World Builder
  World Builder is an authoring system for point-and-click adventure games. It was released in 1986 by Silicon Beach Software and had already been used for creating Enchanted Scepters in 1984. In 1994 World Builder along with Course Builder, SuperCard and HyperDA was cited as the reason Appleton was...
  
   (1986)
• Apache Strike
  Apache Strike
  Apache Strike is a 3D helicopter game first developed for the Apple Macintosh in 1987. Its objective is flying an Apache helicopter through a rudimentary hidden line-rendered cityscape in order to destroy the enemy's strategic defense computer. Enemy helicopters and tanks are encountered and must...
  
   (1987)
• Beyond Dark Castle
  Beyond Dark Castle
  Beyond Dark Castle is a computer game, released for the Macintosh in 1987 by Silicon Beach Software. It was designed by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay. It is the sequel to Dark Castle, with more levels, monsters and items, as well as a larger game map and longer levels...
  
   (1988)
• Spacestation Pheta
  Spacestation Pheta
  Spacestation Pheta is a video game for the Apple Macintosh computer developed by in the late 1980s. It is a fast, multi-screen platform game. Each screen contains surprises such as transporters, secret ladders, materializers, cannons, and trampolines. There are 100 built-in screens plus an editor...
  
  
• Pararena
  Pararena
  Pararena is an action computer game for the Apple Macintosh computer originally written in 1990 by John Calhoun and released as shareware. It is a mouse-controlled ball game where two players compete on hoverboards in a parabolic arena with two "goals" on the sides...
  
  
• Sky Shadow
  Sky Shadow
  Sky Shadow is a 1990 Defender clone for the Mac OS, published by Casady & Greene. It was critically acclaimed when originally released, featuring detailed graphics and fast-paced gameplay. It was programmed by Patrick Buckland, author of the classic Mac Game Crystal Quest.- External links :*...
  
  
• Crystal Crazy
  Crystal Crazy
  Crystal Crazy is an arcade game, published by Casady & Greene for Mac OS during the 1990s. It is the sequel to Crystal Quest. The aim of the game is to collect crystals. It is not possible to play this game on Intel-based Macs without an emulator .Versions before 1.05 do not have sound on...
  
  
• Scarab of Ra
  Scarab of Ra
  Scarab of Ra is a Mac OS shareware computer game written in 1987 by Rick Holzgrafe and released by Semicolon Software. It is an adventure set within an Egyptian pyramid.-Story:...
  
  
• Strategic Conquest
  Strategic Conquest
  Strategic Conquest is a two-player turn-based strategy game for the Apple II and Apple Macintosh, similar to Empire. It was published by PBI Software and the Macintosh version was continued by Delta Tao Software....
  
  
• MazeWars+
  Maze War
  Maze War is a video game.Maze War originated or disseminated a number of concepts used in thousands of games to follow, and is considered one of the earliest examples of, or progenitor of, a first-person shooter...
  
  
• 3 in Three
  3 in Three
  3 in Three is a 1989 computer game by Cliff Johnson.While bearing some similarities to his previous game, The Fool's Errand, 3 in Three brought the meta-puzzle to a new environment: inside the computer. The tale this time is of a wayward number 3, lost in the innards of the computer by a power surge...
  
  
• Deja Vu
• Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas
  Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas
  Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas is a point-and-click adventure game, the sequel to Deja Vu: a Nightmare Comes True, set in the world of 1940s hard-boiled detective novels and movies.It was the last game made in the MacVenture series.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Uninvited
• Shadowgate
  Shadowgate
  Shadowgate is a 1987 "point-and-click" adventure video game originally for the Apple Macintosh and is the most popular in the MacVenture series. It was also ported to the Atari ST home computer and was also released in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, where it garnered mild success. The...