Adobe Photoshop Elements (2001) 8 Graphics Windows MacOS

Adobe Photoshop Elements is the successor to Photoshop LE, a somewhat reduced, home-oriented version of Adobe Photoshop.

• 1.0
• 2.0

Adobe Premiere (1991) 7 Video Windows

Originally developed for the Mac, Adobe Premiere is a tool for editing videos.

• 1.x (Win)
• 4.0
• 4.2
• 5.0

Adobe PressReady (1999) 0 Publishing Windows

Adobe PressReady is a professional printing and proofing tool that was aimed for selected inkjet printers to allow better color reproduction from screen to print. Requires Windows 95/98 with at least 48 MB RAM, otherwise NT 4.0 with 64 MB RAM. Supported printer models were: Canon BJC-8500, Epson Stylus Color 800, 850, 1520, and 3000, and HP DeskJet 895C, 1120C, and 2000C. The choice of printers were supposedly what inkjet printers graphic designers were using at the time.

• 1.0

Adobe Streamline (1992) 2 Graphics Publishing Windows

Adobe Streamline is an image conversion and manipulation tool that aids conversion of bit-mapped images in to PostScript line art for use in tools such as Adobe Illustrator.

• 4.0

Adobe Type Manager (1991) 2 Windows MacOS

Adobe Type Manager was designed to provide scalable fonts on early Mac and Windows 3.0 systems that did not provide similar functionality natively. ATM is required by a number of graphics application originally designed to work in these environments. ATM is packaged as a "lite" installable runtime. Later releases offer a "Deluxe" version with extra font management abilities. Other OSes including NeXTSTEP, DESQview, and OS/2 come with ATM functionality built-in.

• 3.0x
• 4.x

Advanced Task Manager (1995) 0 Utility Windows

A task manager replacement for Windows 3.1.

• 1.x

After Dark (1989) 32 Novelty DOS Windows MacOS

After Dark, from Berkeley Systems, Inc, is a set of entertaining screen savers for Mac and Windows. After Dark for Windows started off as "Magic Screen Saver" for Windows 2.x. After Dark was most famous for its "Flying Toasters" screen saver. Afterdark was very popular on both the early Macintosh computers and Windows 3.0, as neither included any kind of screen saver or screen blanker that would help prevent screen burn-in.

• 1.0 for DOS
• 3.x
• 4.x
• Tenth Anniversary
• 9

Age of Empires (1997) 29 MacOS Windows

Age of Empires is a civilization simulator strategy game where different empires fight to rule.

• 1.0
• Gold Edition

Aldus IntelliDraw (1992) 0 Graphics Windows

IntelliDraw is a shape based vector illustration tool that enables you to dynamically control shapes using numeric, rule based, or relationship based parameters.

• 2.0

Aldus Photostyler (1992) 0 Graphics Windows

Aldus PhotoStyler, developed by Ulead and acquired by Aldus, was an easy-to use photo image editor intended to compete with PhotoShop. The product was dropped when Adobe acquired Aldus.

• 2.x

Aldus TouchBase (1993) 0 PIM Windows

Aldus TouchBase is a simple Rolodex-like contact manager for Microsoft Windows. Supports printing cards, labels, and envelopes. There was also a Macintosh version.

• 1.x

Aldus Type Twister (1993) 0 Graphics Publishing Windows

Type Twister is a font tool that adds multiple effects to fonts, that a user may then copy as a bit map in to other applications. involved with Instant Artist, which features similar font effects.

• 1.0

Alpha Four / Alpha Five (1991) 4 Windows

Alpha Four and Alpha Five, from Alpha Software, are a relational database management system and rapid application development platform. It is now known as "Alpha Anywhere".

• 5.x

America Online (1992) 2 Web Browser Chat Windows

America Online was a proprietary dial-up online service that eventually grew to offerer Internet access. In the mid 1990s AOL was very heavily promoted. Every month or two, you were sure to get a free AOL floppy disk or CD-ROM in the mail. AOL originated as PC-Link.

• 2.x
• 3.0

American Heritage Electronic Dictionary (1991) 0 Reference DOS

Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Electronic Dictionary is a resident background program that gives you instant searchable access to an entire dictionary.

• 3.0

AmiPro (1991) 6 Word Processor Windows

Ami Pro, also called just Ami initially, was a word processor sold by Samna and later Lotus Software, where it became Lotus Word Pro. Ami was one of the first word processors for Microsoft Windows, beating MS Word by about a year. Other early Windows word processors included NBI Legend and WinText

• 3.x

AnyTime (1992) 0 PIM Windows

AnyTime, from Individual Software, is a personal information manager that helps you keep track of day-to-day appointments, events, and to-do items. You can keep a list of family, friends, and business contacts using the Address Book.

• 2.0

AOL Instant Messenger (1998) 0 Chat Windows

AOL Instant Messenger is a once-popular messaging client popularized by America Online.

• 1.0

AOLPress (1997) 0 Editor Document Windows

AOL Press 2.0 is a Windows based what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor from AOL. It competed with other HTML Cuisinarts such as Microsoft Front Page.

• 2.0

Apple Displays Software (1999) 0 MacOS

These are drivers provided by Apple for Apple display monitors.

• 1.x

Apple Drive Setup (1997) 0 Utility MacOS

Drive Setup installs software that your computer uses to work with your hard disk.

• 1.3.1

Apple Network Administrator Toolkit (1996) 0 Server MacOS

The Apple Network Administrator Toolkit is a set of tools for aiding centralized network management on early Macintosh computers. It also includes later versions of At Ease for Workgroups.

• 1.0
• 2.0

Apple PlainTalk (1994) 1 Utility MacOS

PlainTalk is the collective name for several speech synthesis (MacinTalk) and speech recognition technologies developed by Apple Inc. In 1990, Apple invested a lot of work and money in speech recognition technology, hiring many researchers in the field. The result was "PlainTalk", released with the AV models in the Macintosh Quadra series from 1993. It was made a standard system component in System 7.1.2, and has since been shipped on all PowerPC and some other 68K Macintoshes.

• 1.x

AppleShare IP (1996) 0 MacOS

This gave TCP/IP support to AppleShare on MacOS.

• 5.x
• 6.x

AppleWorks (1986) 4 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Graphics Communications Database MacOS Mac OS X

AppleWorks is an all-in-one Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Graphics Editor, and Presentations tool. The original product was a text-based product for the Apple II. The Apple Macintosh and Windows versions were forked from ClarisWorks in 1998 by Apple. At the time, Apple was under a lot of pressure to have a direct alternative to Microsoft Office. There were serious concerns that Microsoft might pull Microsoft Office for the Macintosh from development.

• 5.x
• 6.x