Recommended Utilities

Select 3rd Party utilities to help in the production of CD-i and VCD titles. Since versions and locations change often, no direct links to files are included here. Below is a set of links to software search pages which may help in the search. The general search sites, e.g. Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc., might also help.

SEARCH SITES:
http://www.download.com/
http://www.filez.com/
http://general.amug.org/amug/cd/http/macsearch.html
http://www.pht.com/info-mac/
http://www.shareware.com/

Mac Files


Text Editors/Line Conversions
BBEDIT LiteText Editor. Even better: full BBEdit.
TexEdit Plus Text Editor--replacement for SimpleText--Superb!
TextToMac LF/CR Conversions for Text Files.

File Compression/Encoding/Decoding
BINHEX 4 Application to make/unmake binhex (.hqx) files
BINHEX 5 Application to make/unmake MacBinary (.bin) Files
Compact Pro Create .sea files
Now Utilities Create .sea files, and much more.
Suntar Tar Utility for Mac---Freeware
ZipIt Zip Utility for Mac---Shareware
StuffIt Drag & Drop Tools: including Drop Stuff, StuffIt Expander, & DropSegment
StuffIt Lite Essential. Even better, StuffIt Deluxe.

Disk Image/Floppy Utilities
Floppy disk copy/image utilities
DISKCOPY 4.2
Shrinkwrap
DropDisk
Norton Floppier

Communications/File Transfers
Anarchie FTP & Archie utility
Fetch FTP Utility for Mac. New version. Slick.
TCP Connect FTP & NFS
VersaTerm Pro FTP, Telnet, Terminal
ZTerm Excellent shareware terminal program.

Type/Creator Changers
File BejeesusDrag & Drop app. Convenient for common changes.
Get More Info Extension.
Set Its TypeApplication to change Type/Creator.
Snitch Control Panel

File Managers
The DiskTools Collection
DiskTop

Image Conversion
Debabelizer

Programmers tools
Applications to view binary files, edit resources.
FEdit Plus
HexEdit
ResEdit

Mac Error utilities
Applications which define Mac System Errors.
Mac Errors
Easy Errors

Macintosh System Tools
Techtool Diagnostic Tool, PRAM zapper, Desktop Rebuilder----Freeware
GURU Memory, System configurations for all Macs
Mac Catalog Database Similar to above in Filemaker format.


OS9

Check out the OS9 forum on Compuserve. There are many shareware/freeware files there, but beware: only the
ones compiled for 68K processors have a chance of working on the player or authoring boards.


PC

File Compression/Encoding/Decoding
PKZIP
PKUNZIP
PKZIPFIX
WINZIP
StuffIt Expander for Windows

Text Editors/Line Conversions
AURORA DOS-based text editor, does line termination conversions.
TEXTPAD Windows (3.x,95,NT versions) Text Editor, does line termination conversions.

Image Conversion
Paintshop Pro
Hijaak

File Transfer Utilities
CUTEFTPFTP utilities
FTP2000


SUN

MPEG verifiers available.


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