| Name | Description | ||
| AEGizmo Equivalent | by Eric Hon-Anderson | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Alias Sizer | This INIT provides for aliases to have SIZE resources and will override the SIZE in the appliation to which the alias points. by Barry Semo | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Animated Icons | This extension displays quicktime movies, animated icons, pictures, and plays sounds associated with icons and can speak a string or the filename as well. by Keith Stattenfield & Doug Clarke | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Appearance Mangler | This doodad is a simple hack that is built to run beneath Kaleidoscope. It causes Kscope to draw interface elements from different schemes at random, resulting in a bit of a schizophrenic GUI. by Jon Gotow & Greg Landwebber | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| BaboonHelp | Patches Balloon Help to produce speaking baboons to deliver balloon help messages. by David McLeod and Sean Langley and Jordan Zimmerman and Loïc Vanderyken | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Bill Boot | This extension patches out the Macintosh boot sequence with a more PC-like sequence. by Eric Traut | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Brought to you by... | Finally, a great way to make money. Mac Sponsorship! By Christopher Evans | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Bugs in My Serial | This is a really sick hack that gives you MacsBug over the serial port to any VT100 terminal. by Bill Hubauer, Brian Zuk, Geoff Wenger, John Wallace | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Chain | A keychain Application. Written by Steve Bollinger, Steve Falkenburg, and Dave Falkenburg | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| ComeBackHere | ComeBackHere is an extension that improves the user interface for windows. It makes them more intuituve. by David Kamholz | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| ContextWarrior | Drop this Init into your extensions folder and if you are running CodeWarrior under MacOS 8, it now has contextual menus. | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Crash & Burn | This hack requires a special version of MacsBug that may or may not have been released yet. You probably will not be able to use this, but here it is anyway! by Bill Hubauer | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Defrag | Defrag is an extension that defragments fragmented files after they're closed. While defragmenting the file, it tells you what it's doing and plays a sound. by Jim Luther | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Die Hard | The Die Hard file is a scripting addition that can kill an application immediately from an AppleScript. It doesn't send a Quit Apple event. Just kills immediately. by Cal Simone | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Dis-Appearance | I don't like light grey. This extension removes light grey from your existence. I find that this makes the Mac OS 8 Finder much more beautiful. by Brian Bechtel | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| EDO Hack | This hack downloads a html file based upon the name of the program. It then puts up a dialog that shows a list of all links in the file. by Don Arbow and Marc A. Raiser | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Electron World | Go through the transporter and collect time keys without getting electrocuted! By Travis DeMello and Andy Furnas (Belle Sherman Elementary School Grade 3) | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Energizer Bug | This is a Macsbug dcmd that will wake up a sleeping Energy Star monitor. by Jon Gotow | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Finder Dungeon | Explore your disks, folders, etc by traversing the dungeon halls of your folders. by Christopher Evans | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| HackMan | Here are two dandy hacks that show The Power Of AppleScript. Dancing Desktop move the icons on the desktop around the screen. HackMan is PacMan for your desktop. | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Higher Tek | Higher Tek is an interface replacement for the Macintosh OS. It completely changes the look and feel of your system, from the boring standard grays to a futuristic darker more techno look. by Matthew Nolan | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Invisible JEDI | A simple init that dynamically positions the desktop pattern in response to a control-shift-click-drag in the desktop area by Eric Cole | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Jasik Park - The Lost UI | This skanky hack will give you some of the Jasik User Experience in your desktop. by Marc Sherman and Gavriel State | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| PredatorPreyForwardMotion | VR game like flight simulator by James Ullrey | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Keyed Menus | KeyedMenus allows you to dynamically re-assign your menu shortcuts while the menus are down. by jbx | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Kitten On The Keys | by Eric Hon-Anderson | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Klingon BG App | Klingon BG App is a background only application that announces the time in one minute intervals | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Find-A-Game | Find-A-Game is a cool hack that makes it so that whenever anyone opens a window that is named Woz! or Pong! the window is taken over by a game of Breakout or Pong respectively. by Nat McCully | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Mac at Your Service | This is a sound file that I like to have in my startup items folder that lest me know when it's finished loading. by Steven Passas | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| MacMolecule2 a la Breakout | by Sanford Selznick | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| MacsBug OSA | This is a simple application that implements OSA scripting for some MacsBug commands. By Tom Becker | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Melt the Control Strip | We've found a way to channel the heat created by 604e processors into the screen and melt the control strip. Note, using this too much could be bad for your monitor. by Brian Gaeke and Dave Blundell | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| MonitorDoubler | This hack creates a small virtual monitor at the bottom of the main screen device onto which you can put such things as Control Strip and DragThing and other docks. by Pete Gontier | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| NewsTicker | NewsTicker is a utility for displaying the headlines from www.apple.com, www.news.com (technical news service provided by c|net), and www.cnn.com. It puts up a floating windowoid where the headlines scroll by. By Don Brown | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Pick Me Up | When you are feeling down and out and generally not happy, just hit your command key combo. By Joe Woo and Jason of PGP | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Reveal Thyself | A couple of handy Applescripts for use with OSAMenu reworked into a useless hack. | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| StyledEdit | This MacHack implements styled text for keywords in Metrowerk's and BBEdit's editing windows. By Matthew Xavier Mora | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| TempoHelper | by Leonard Rosenthol & Shane Looker | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| The Dave Thomas Hack | "The Dave Thomas Hack" is a social engineering hack, not a software hack. Read it for details. byAdam Wildavsky | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| The Ugly Stick | This hack was a result of one of us (Kevin) attending a session on MacOS 8 contextual menus, and thinking that it would make a cool basis to solve an annoying problem: PC text files are UGLY. by Kevin Hewitt & Timothy Knox | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Hanging By A Thread | Hanging By A Thread lets you get work down while the menus are dangling. Watch for that Macsbug if you try a command-Q with the menus down! by Sean Parent, Jorg Brown, and Eric Traut. | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Ventriloquist | It is a hack that uses an init and two applications to allow you to type a message on one mac and have another mac on the network speak the text you typed, as you type it. by Roger Roelofs | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Vertical Hold | by Damon Cokenias, Alex Hopmann, Christopher Evans | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| VUlites | Insert audio CD. Play. Listen. Look at keyboard lights. by Avi Drissman | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Warriorıs Progress | Wait while it queries CodeWarrior about your project. It will start CodeWarrior compiling, and display the progress. by Tom Lippincott | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| WebAdder | WebAdder is a companion to my "WebFree" ShareWare. WebFree lets you remove advertisements, cookies, blinking text, and flashing graphics from web pages. It's a great product, but I ran into a problem: getting the word out. So, I figured, what better way to publicize WebFree than web banner ads! With WebAdder, I can publicize WebFree on some of the finer Internet sites. by Steve Falkenburg | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Whack-A-Bill | What else needs to be said? by Aron Tomson | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| WhereTheHellWasIReading? | Its an init that patches ScrollRect and does animated scrolling, showing, for examing, where the stuff at the bottom of the screen scrolls up to. by Pierre Houston | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
| Woz's "Music Box" | If you missed the Woz's keynote, then it's hard to explain. by Chad Milios | FTP Site #1 | FTP Site #2 |
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