John’s Sheepshaver Disk 2.2 is a comprehensive and finely-tuned volume with a well-thought-out selection of programs and utilities. It will run fine with WPMacApp, Sheepshaver-WP, or any other Sheepsh

The Mac will look more like an iphone, apparently: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/22/apple-ditches-intel-for-arm-processors-in-big-sur-computers and OS 10.16 (when are they just going

I had not planned further updates to this package for SheepShaver and WordPerfect, but the world is going to 64-bit (which is apparently not the same as hell in a handbasket, although we seem to be he

A while ago I posted Script Debugger 1, the best Applescript editor in its first version for Mac OS 9. A really nice program. It comes with a Scheduler utility which, completely separate from Applescr

If you use SheepShaver-WP, the installer has placed a small app in your Applications folder, "SheepShaver-WP", which is what you normally use to start SheepShaver. Now that most current versions of th

A printing problem has come up for me and I wondered if anyone had a suggestion. My Sheepshaver package’s printing is modeled on Edward's: a postscript file is generated and put in the WPMacAppData fo

If you have more than a passing interest in Applescript, you don't want to use the script editor that comes with the OS -- it's just too limited. The best third-party script editor is Script Debugger.

Edward Mendelson, who's good at this, found the manual for Script Debugger 1, and it's now posted here, in the Applescript Resources folder of the Files section. Compared to a whole lot else I've seen

Hi, We've been practicing social distancing, as I hope you have, and we've used the advice of six-foot distance. There's a lot of questionable information (misinformation? disinformation?) about covid

Although I will keep using a certain word processor dating from 1998 as long as my fingers can type, other aspects of my decidedly retro position are becoming more tenuous. I've had my laptop on OS 10

At a user's request I've updated the WPLO Converter so that it runs on Catalina. It's impossible to notarize it, so it's possible that it will cause annoying messages to pop up every time it's used, a

Of possible relevance from today’s MacInTouch.com: SetDate is an app from Rob Braun that addresses a “Y2K20” issue with classic Macs: The stock System 7 Date & Time control panel has problems with cur

While fixing something in another project, I finally got around to adding a full-screen option to the WPMacApp. Hold down the option key when launching the application; go to the screen-size menu; sel

Hi, the newest version of Catalina is better, but I still can’t get SheepShaver to open. I never heard back about this. Anyone? GeoR. ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ George B. Richardson C

Hi! I attached a screen shot of message I received when opening WPMac App in Catalina. Can can you tell me with whom I must interact to register my email so I can open the app or possibly pay for it n

Steve Jobs on Life: “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” I guess things were simpler then. http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/26-year-old-steve-jobs-debates-the-utopian-dystopian-promise-of-the-computer-1981.h

While trying to reply in this thread, and on my new phone no less, I inadvertently deleted Edward's most recent reply. Edward, sorry! Could you repost? Thank you, John R.

Hi, Tried installing WPMacApp.app in Catalina and get error message: "cp:/Applications/WPMacApp.app/Contents/Resources/Files:/plisthead.txt: No such file or directory” with Cancel and OK buttons. Any

While updating various Applescript projects for future versions of the macOS, I put together a new program for converting WP files to DOCX or PDF format (and also converting WPG graphics to PNG files)

I've made some updates in the WPMacApp, mostly to clean up a lot of obsolete AppleScript code in the launcher application and in the background script that runs while the WPMacApp is running. A few ob