French versions of some of our programs may be available from:
Les versions françaises de certains de mes programmes sont disponibles à :
• <ftp://ftp.sri.ucl.ac.be//pub/>
and German version of some programs may be available from:
Die deutsche Version einiger meiner Programme gibt es auf:
• <ftp://gis.telecom.at//pub/mac/internet_dt/>
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Contact Information
Web: <http://www.stairways.com/>
FTP: <ftp://ftp.stairways.com/stairways/>
Email: <support@stairways.com.au>
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How To Register
You can register one of two ways: on-line registration using a web browser, or off-line registration using the Register program.
Our online registration can be found at:
<http://orders.kagi.com/?PL>
Or, using the Register program, you need to:
1. Get hold of a copy of the Register program: You can get Register from the FTP sites listed above. There are also download links on the following Web page:
<http://www.stairways.com/register/topay.html>
2. Run the Register program and fill out the form: You need to enter your name, email, postal address, and the shareware you wish to pay for. The form accepts many different payment methods such as: US Check, Money Order, Cash (in many different currencies), Visa, Mastercard, American Express, First Virtual, and Invoice (to be given to your accounts payable department).
3. Send it to Kagi Shareware: Then either email the data generated by the registration program or print it and send it via postal mail or fax. Credit card information is encrypted by the Register program.
The address to send the completed form is output by Register when you Print or Copy the completed form. The addresses are:
Email: <shareware@kagi.com>
FAX: +1 510 652 6589
Snail-mail:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-PL
Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
USA
If you are concerned that this might be a clever forgery, feel free to mail us at <support@stairways.com.au>. If you are a shareware author interested in this system, have a look over the Kagi website <http://www.kagi.com/>.
Note for Australians: You may still pay direct to me in Australian dollars. Make cheques payable to Stairways Software (my company) in AU$ for the standard amount (eg AU$10 for Anarchie), and mail them to my address:
Stairways Software
PO Box 1123
Booragoon WA 6154
AUSTRALIA
We can only accept AU$ Cash or Checks, anything else will have to go to Kagi Shareware at the normal US$10.00 rate.
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MindThump 1.0 - $15
MindThump is recreational brain damage at its best - simpler than Tetris, more painful than dental work. The object of the game is to spot patterns among chaos.
MindThump is US$15 shareware, and if you register you get Inside MindThump, a document detailing how the game works and tips & tricks to improve your playing.
Features:
• Simple.
• Addictive.
• Mind Thumping.
• Practice mode with hints available, manually adjusting levels.
• Solo Run - an adaptive mode that adjusts to your ability.
• Time Trial - the pure version of the game.
MindThump requires System 7 or later.
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Combadge 1.0.1 - $25
Combadge is a real time email companion, perhaps best described as a cross between a talk, chat and email. Combadge will let you chat in real time with other Combadge users without needing to know where they are - you simply use their email address and Combadge finds them. If they are not running Combadge, then Combadge will send your message to them using email so you do not even need to know if they have Combadge.
Combadge is US$25 shareware. Site and organisation-wide licenses are also available for US$500 and US$2000 respectively.
Features:
• Easy User Interface.
• Real time chatting if both parties have Combadge.
• Email messages if they do not have Combadge.
• Connect using email address.
• Log conversations to email.
• Automatic configuration.
• Answering machine facility.
Combadge requires System 7 or later and Internet connectivity.
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Assimilator 2.0.1 - $10
Assimilator is designed for Macintosh lab situations where you want to make all the harddisks in a lab look (more or less) identical. When the Assimilator program is run on a lab Macintosh it will mount an AppleShare file server and then make the harddisk look more or less exactly like a pre-specified source folder on the server. It does this by throwing away (into the Trash) any files or folders that don’t belong or are different and downloading any missing files. Icon positions, folder views, finder flags and so forth are all corrected on the client Macintosh to match the source folder.
Features:
• Easy User Interface.
• Supports any AppleShare server (including AppleShare IP)
• Configurable control over download options using Finder labels.
• Database of machines, including owner name, machine name, volume name and IP address.
• MacTCP and Open Transport compatibility.
• Password controlled abort.
• Support for multiple partitions and volumes.
• Assimilate from local media.
• Protected execution of administrative scripts.
• Versatile machine or group customization method.
• Extensive documentation and support.
Assimilator requires System 7 or later and a hard disk.
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OTSessionWatcher 1.0.1 - $35
This application was previously known as StreamWatcher v1.0. OTSessionWatcher v1.0.1 is a free upgrade to registered users of StreamWatcher v1.0.
OTSessionWatcher allows you to examine the data transmitted through Open Transport TCP streams. This is useful for debugging network applications and network problems.
Features:
• OTSessionWatcher can examine all OpenTransport TCP streams (using “OT AutoPush Support” from Quinn), allowing you to examine networking traffic for any application on your computer.
• OTSessionWatcher can display multiple streams simultaneously, either in a single window, or one stream in each window. This allows you to watch sessions where many different connections are made (such as a web browser downloading a page with pictures).
• OTSessionWatcher can display the stream data in text or binary mode (automatically or manually).
OTSessionWatcher requires a PowerPC (Power Macintosh or clone) and Open Transport.
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Greebles 1.0 - $15
Greebles is an action packed game of skill involving Bulldozers, Cockroaches and Fish. With one hundred unique levels to explore, it will keep a single player busy, and when you add multi-player play (up to four people on a single computer, and up to nine computers playing over a network) the possibilities expand enormously.
Features
* One hundred unique levels to explore with unlimited progression.
* Three different skill levels: Easy, Normal, and Suicidal.
* Up to four players with a single computer.
* Up to nine computers.
* Up to 36 players in total!
* Friendly computer players (for when your friends can’t visit)
* Nasty computer players (for that added challenge)
* Rich graphics, neat sound effects, great music.
* Custom game options (like infinite lives, so you don’t have to hack)
* Multipack discounts: as low as $8/copy for five or more copies.
Greebles requires System 7.0 or later, a 68040 or PowerPC, 256 colours, 640 by 480 screen, 3Meg of RAM. Networking requires Open Transport 1.1 and a TCP/IP network (modem not recommended).
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StreamWatcher 1.0 - $35
This application is now known as OTSessionWatcher v1.0.1.
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RumorMill 1.1.1 - $35
RumorMill is a fully featured Macintosh Newserver, designed for hosting a mix of local and remote newsgroups. RumorMill provides a simple mechanism to create and distribute newsgroups (discussion forums) from a central server.
RumorMill is ideal for business groups, schools, universities and any one else who is interested in a simple, scalable and widely supported means of providing group discussion. RumorMill can easily mix USENET newsgroups with local or off-site newsgroups which can be selectively pulled or fed from multiple servers.
RumorMill’s features include:
• Quick and Easy Setup
• Remote Configuration
• Support Multiple Host Servers
• Active Pull (or 'Suck')
• Site Restricitions Security Masks
• User/Password restrictions
• Small Memory Footprint
• Configuration using Newswatcher files
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ObiWan 5.2 - $10
ObiWan is a general help system. You can create several databases and ObiWan will let you rapidly find information from them. It displays the information by popping up a floating window so the information can be displayed at any time in any program. Portions of the information can then be sent to the front window as if you had typed it.
The main use of all this is to access the programming database, which includes the procedures, traps, global variables and errors available up to most of System 7.5 and the Universal Interfaces.
Multiple databases are included: the Force database which has all the Macintosh programming information, a Java database which is a reference for the Java class libraries, an HTML database which a reference for HTML 3.2 tags, a Words database which is just a list of words, useful for checking spelling, and a Perl database which lists all the Perl commands. Also there are Enlish to French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish translation dictionaries.
Any programmer with a couple megabytes of disk space available should definitely have a look at this (IMNVHO :-). The normal use is to figure out the parameters of various calls, for example, if you want to know the parameters for HOpen, you can get them pasted in like this:
ThufirCalc is a fully featured, algebraic calculator which is always just a hot key away. ThufirCalc uses a Utility Window so you can perform calculations without having to switch applications. ThufirCalc's features include:
• 26 Registers
• Hot Key activation
• Utility Window
• Tips
• Live evaluation (result is always available)
• Can 'type' into other applications
• Arbitrary number base (binary, hex, decimal etc...)
• Algebraic evaluation
• Common functions (sin, cos, tan, asin, exp, log, etc...)
• Handy Shortcuts and Abbreviations (** (power), ! (factorial) )
ThufirCalc requires System 7.1 or later.
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NetPresenz 4.1 - $10
NetPresenz is a Macintosh FTP, Web, and Gopher server. It allows people to connect to your Mac and download or upload files and view Web or Gopher pages. With this single program you or your company can use a Macintosh to provide a high profile presence on the Internet including FTP, Web and Gopher, all for just a $10 shareware fee.
NetPresenz uses the Apple's standard file sharing permissions under either Personal File Sharing (7.5.1 or later highly recomended) or AppleShare, so it is easy to configure and very secure. It supports a wide range of FTP and Web feautres, including CGI and Server SIde Include support.
NetPresenz requires System 7 and MacTCP or Open Transport. System 7.5.5 or later and Open Transport 1.1.2 or later are recomended.
NetPresenz is US$10 shareware. The upgrade is free to everyone who registered after Jan 1, 1996. If you registered before then, the upgrade is 50% of the normal price.
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Anarchie 2.0.1 - $10
Anarchie is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client for the Macintosh. It will let you browse FTP sites, upload or download files, or find them using an Archie or Mac Search. It requires System 7 and at least MacTCP 1.1 or Open Transport 1.1. System 7.5 and MacTCP 2.0.6 or Open Transport 1.1.1 (or later) are both highly recommended.
Features:
• Mac Search
• Tips Window
• Folder download
• Apple Guide (thanks to Quinn!).
• Internet Config support including post processing.
• AppleScriptable and Recordable.
• Comes with bookmarks to many popular sites.
• Active Assistance - Notices when you are inefficient and tells you.
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Mac TCP Watcher 2.0 - $10
Mac TCP Watcher displays the internal data of MacTCP and Open Transport. It shows the Mac’s IP, DNS name, and all the internal information that MacTCP provides. It will also list all the currently open TCP connections, and the information on each of them. As well, it allows you to test MacTCP and your network, using the ICMP Ping protocol, the UDP & TCP Echo protocols (you'll need a machine that supports the echo protocol, most unix machines do, and I've implemented them in Mac TCP Watcher, so you can run the program on two Macintoshes and test the network between them as well as the MacTCP configuration on each of them), and it tests out the DNS by looking up the name of a given IP or IP of a given name. Finally, Mac TCP Watcher implements a traceroute function.
It should be useful to people having MacTCP configuration troubles, network or Domain Name System problems, or the chronically curious.
Mac TCP Watcher comes with a copy of Eric Behr’s MacTCP Info document (thanks Eric!), so if you have MacTCP problems, check it out.
Mac TCP Watcher require MacTCP or Open Transport.
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FTPd 4.0.1 - $10
FTPd is now called NetPresenz, see the entry under that name.
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Balloon Help Compiler 1.0.2 - $20
Balloon Help Compiler is a Metrowerks CodeWarrior compiler plugin that compiles text file descriptions of menu and dialog Balloon Help into appropriate resources (namely 'hmnu', 'hdlg', and a 'STR#' resource) for use by the Help Manager in displaying balloons. Since Balloons Help is largely text, it makes sense to have a text file for editing them. And with Metrowerks plugin compiler technology and this compiler, you can add the text file directly to your project and have it built automatically in the make process.
Balloon Help Compiler requires CodeWarrior 7.
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IC to PC Exchange 1.0 - Free
IC to PC Exchange takes the file mappings from Internet Config and inserts them into the preferences files of PC Exchange. This saves you from manually entering these into the PC Exchange Control Panel if you wish files on your DOS floppy to have the correct file type, creator and icon.
IC to PC Exchange requires Internet Config 1.2, probably requires System 7, to be of use requires the PC Exchange Control Panel.
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Internet Config 1.3 - Public Domain
Internet Config is a system for storing and accessing shared Internet preferences. Internet Config consists of a user application for configuring standard Internet preferences like email addresses and file type mappings, and an open, extensible API for applications to access the shared database.
Internet Config requires System 6.
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SOCKS 1.0.1 - $50
SOCKS implements version 4 of the SOCKS firewall protocol. It allows users with SOCKS compatible clients to connect to the SOCKS firewall and then the server in turn connects to the outside world on the user’s behalf. Together with a correctly configured router, SOCKS can reduce the possible methods of attack.
SOCKS requires MacTCP and System 7 and the Thread Manager (System 7.5 recommended).
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Script Daemon 1.0.1 - free
Script Daemon allows you to telnet to your Mac and enter AppleScript commands. Only the owner can log in (using the Owner name & password). How useful this is depends very much on what AppleScript capable programs you have, but its pretty clear that there will be more of them as time goes on. With the scriptable Finder, Script Daemon is almost useful.
1.0.1 is a maintenance release, mainly to update the U&G library.
Script Daemon requires System 7, AppleScript, and MacTCP.
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Finger 1.5 - $10
Finger is a client for the UNIX Finger protocol, allowing you to finger other machines on the Internet.
Finger is AppleScriptable and recordable, and supports the standard URL AppleScript Suite and AURL document format.
Finger requires System 6 (possibly System 7) and MacTCP.
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ScriptLink 1.0 - commercial
ScriptLink is a developer system for controlling a Macintosh from a Newton using AppleScript. It’s designed to enable developers to build customised solutions using off the shelf programs.
For more information about ScriptLink, please contact:
Todd Hooper
Momentum Pty Ltd
Perth, Australia
Phone +61 9 483 2649
Fax +61 9 227 5447
Internet <momentum@dialix.oz.au>
AppleLink MOMENTUM.AUS
Distributed in the US by:
Creative Digital Systems
San Francisco, USA
Phone (415) 621 4252
Fax (415) 621 4922
Internet <cds@netcom.com>
AppleLink CDS.SEM
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CDIconKiller 1.0 - free, with source code
Obsolete version.
Quinn <quinn@quinn.echidna.id.au> and I wrote this System Extension (INIT) because we were sick of waiting ages while the system showed all those pretty (slow) icons on CD-ROM drives. For some reason, CD-ROM authors have this terrible habit of filling up their drive with custom icons, but CDIconKiller suppresses all such icons on CD-ROM drives. This tends to speed up your CD-ROMs by a factor of about a zillion.
Fabrizio Oddone <fab@kagi.com> updated CDIconKiller to versions after 1.0, supporting ResEdit-configurable CD-ROM drivers, colour icons, and hopefully fixing a few bugs. Please contact Fabrizio for information about current versions.
CDIconKiller is useless without System 7, although it doesn’t technically require it.
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TFTPd 1.0 - $10
TFTPd is a Macintosh TFTP (Trivial File Transport Protocol) server. It has minimal features (no uploading, no ASCII translation, fairly average performance, etc), but should be useful in some circumstances.
Note: TFTP is a completely separate protocol from FTP. This is NOT a Trivial FTP server, it is a TFTP server. TFTP is generally used for booting routers and the like, not as a file transfer system.
TFTPd requires System 7 and MacTCP
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MungeImage 1.2 - free, with source code
Obsolete.
MungeImage mounts DiskCopy and DART images as disk icons. Quinn <quinn@quinn.echidna.id.au> and I wrote MungeImage to replace MountImage which has a dangerous bug which can cause file corruptions (hence the name, it’s a joke son, something MacWeek didn’t seem to get…).
MungeImage has been obsoleted by DropDisk (which has the same functionality, but is better than MungeImage) and ShrinkWrap (which has much more functionality).
Requires System 7 and as much memory as mounted disk space.
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Morpion 1.0 - free, with source code
Morpion is a simple solitaire game, initially designed by Henri Lamiraux. I saw it on a friend’s Newton and decided to write a Mac version (mostly to get out of watching some really boring videos that were on at the time).
The goal of Morpion is to draw as many horizontal, vertical or diagonal line segments as possible. A segment can be drawn by using five existing dots or by adding a fifth dot to four existing dots. It’s a simple concept, but it’s very tricky to master.
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Daemon 1.1 - free
Daemon is a general TCP server, implementing many simple unix daemons, namely Finger, Whois, Ident, Daytime and Time (but not NTP). It runs as a background only application and answers queries to those services.
Daemon requires MacTCP.
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TCP2Serial 1.0 - free
TCP2Serial sits in the background and waits for a TCP connection on port 1429. It then feeds any data from that connect to the serial port (well, any CTB tool) and vice versa. I use this to access a serial printer from a unix machine using a simple Perl script.
TCP2Serial requires MacTCP and the Communications Toolbox.
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DeHQX 2.0.1 - free, with source code
Mostly obsolete.
DeHQX restores files that have been hqxed by a BinHex 4.0 compatible program. The BinHex format stores Macintosh files (including some Finder information as well as the data and resource forks) in a text-only form that can be transmitted between computers without fear of lost bits (especially the high bits).
Most people use StuffIt Expander these days, so you should not need this program. Some people still find it useful in some circumstances.
DeHQX requires System 6.
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MacBinary II+ 1.0.2 - free, with source code
MacBinary II+ is a System 7 drag & drop converter for MacBinary files. It has no user interface, you simply drop a MacBinary file on it and it will be decoded, drop any other file or folder on it and it will be encoded. MacBinary II+ should be fully compatible with all current MacBinary encoders/decoders, and extends the format to include folder hierarchies (although no other decoder will be able to decode folder hierarchy MacBinary files created by MacBinary II+).
MacBinary II+ requires System 7.
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Talk 1.1.1 - $5, with source code
Talk is an implementation of the UNIX Talk, both client and server, allowing you to talk to other machines and them to talk to you.
Talk requires System 6 and MacTCP.
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Bolo Finder 1.0.2 - free
Bolo Finder uses MacTCP to connect to Mike Ellis' Bolo Tracker which lists the currently known Bolo games in a normal Mac UI manner.
Since all Bolo Finder does is display the output of a TCP connection to a specified host/port, it might well be useful in other very different applications than its intended application of finding Bolo games. But, of course, there is nothing more important than finding Bolo games!
Bolo Finder requires MacTCP.
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Bolo RandomMap 1.1 - free
Bolo RandomMap generates random maps for use with Stuart Cheshire’s amazing network tank game, Bolo. You specify the size, %land, %forest, number of pillboxes and bases, and the starting content for bases, and it generates a made to order map. You can even leave it to pick random values for the various features.
It produces fairly simple maps, including only grass and forest, no other terrain types are produced (yet).
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FetchNews 1.0b - free, with source code
FetchNews downloads news from an NNTP server into the demo folder for use with NewsWatcher in demo mode (which no longer works with versions of NewsWatcher after 1.3).
FetchNews requires MacTCP.
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Chat 1.1 - free, with source code
Obsolete version.
Chat is a background only application that lets your Macintosh host primitive online conferences. Basically, once Chat is running on your mac, multiple people can Telnet to a port and have online discussions. I wrote this to hold the weekly online meetings of the TopSoft group, which have proved very successful.
It has multiple independent channels, with independent logging and automatic word wrapping.
Versions after 1.1 are maintained by Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>. Please contact Nathan for information about current versions.
Chat requires MacTCP.
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Register 1.2.7 - free/licensable
Register is a program to generate or print shareware registration forms to pay for various shareware programs. Except as part of other packages, it should not be posted on ftp sites other than my home sites and mirrors of them. It supports payments via Check, Cash, VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and NetCash. Register is licensable either separately from me or as part of Kee Nethery's Kagi Shareware shareware payment system. Contact me <support@stairways.com.au> for more information about licensing Register, or Kee Nethery <shareware@kagi.com> for more information about Kagi Shareware <http://www.kagi.com/>
