Just a picture!

Yet Another Package Installer

Use `Yet Another Package Installer', which uses XModem (slowly) to upload packages to your Newton. Unfortunately, you will have to find some other means (borrow someone's Mac/Windows machine) to upload YAPI to the Newton in the first place...

Unfortunately, the problems don't stop there. Most Newton packages are available in .hqx (a uuencoded-like format called BinHex). That isn't too bad, there are hqx decoders for the Amiga.

The real killer is that many Newton packages are ALSO compressed with Stuffit `.sit'. There are VERY old stuffit de-compressors available for the Amiga, they often do not work.

I have only tried this package with Newton OS 1.3.

Mouse

There is a program on the Aminet hard/drivr (Mouse - various version numbers e.g. mousev1b.lzh) which allows you to use the Newton as a graphic tablet for the Amiga!

Just a picture!

TransLunar Designs

References to both the above packages, including the home site of Mouse, can be found at this site.

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Last modified 25th April 1998.