After Dark, the legendary screen saver (think flying toasters!) has been patched for OS9 compatibiltiy. Whereas a bug caused it to crash on OS9, it'll now work fine - thanks to cybernetixzero who reverse-engineered the code and applied a bugfix. The patched package & more info is available on the Macintosh Garden.

A new version of the awesome SSH client SSHeven has been released by cy384. The list of improvements include very basic unicode support, fix for crahes on PowerPC 601 machines, improved alt/option key handling as well as updated SSH and TLS libraries. SSHeven is avaliable as a FAT binary for 68k and PowerPC Macs running System 7.1 up until Mac OS 9.2.2.

Get it at cy384's website, at GitHub or over at System 7 Today!


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User lauland on M9L's sister page System 7 Today has undertaken the project to port SDL 2 to Mac OS 9. He aims to make the journey as transparent as possible to learning / documenting purposes and hopes that other developers will join in. Progress can be seen in the respective forum thread.

Regular users are also invited to help by finding good candidates for ports. We're crossing fingers - SDL2 on MacOS 9 would open up a lot of new possibilites, including things like an up-to-date ScummVM.