BBEdit Lite
Since Bare Bones seems to have eliminated the legacy versions from their servers, it took me a few hours to scrape copies together from other sources. So I thought I’d share my findings with the world. Just in case anyone else needs a good text editor for an old System 6 machine…
- BBEdit Lite 3.5.1 (484KB, The last version with System 6 support.)
- BBEdit Lite 4.6 (1.7MB, The last version with 68k support, System 7 or better)
- BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 (6.1MB, The final version, Mac OS 7.5.5 – 10.3)
For Mac OS X 10.3.5 and better, BBEdit’s current free text editor TextWrangler is the better choice. At least until Bare Bones deems it discontinued and unsupported, at which point the lack of a redistribution clause in its license is going to hurt.
While I’m on the topic of ancient software, I might as well point out that NoLobe has full collection of Anarchie versions available (appropriately enough) on their File Transfer Protocol server. And, likewise, iCab is available for every system all the way back to Mac OS 7.5.5.
Edit: fixed link to 6.1.2
