PowerPC™ Software Archive
We have made our best attempt to deliver the last PowerPC versions of various Macintosh software so that you may continue to extend the life of your computers. No copyright infringement is intended or implied.
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Unless specified otherwise, software should run on all G3, G4, and G5 PowerPC processors.
Internet Clients & Plugins
 | Flash Player 10.1 r102 (Adobe Systems Inc.) | |
| The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later (?) |
 | Firefox 3.6.28 (Mozilla Foundation) | |
| Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead. (links are for English US distribution) System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
 | Thunderbird 3.1.20 (Mozilla Foundation) | |
| Software made to make email easier. Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features! System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
 | Fetch 5.6 (Fetch Softworks) | |
| Fetch is a reliable, full-featured file transfer client for the Apple Macintosh whose user interface emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. Fetch supports FTP and SFTP, the most popular file transfer protocols on the Internet. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
 | TeamViewer 7.0.11991 (TeamViewer GmbH) | |
| NEW! TeamViewer provides easy, fast and secure remote access to Windows, Mac and Linux systems. Like VNC, but without complicated firewall configuration. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.? or later |
 | Transmission 2.22 — 1.54 — 0.6.1 (Transmission Project) | |
Transmission is an open source, volunteer-based project. Unlike some BitTorrent clients, Transmission doesn't play games with its users to make money:
System Requirements: 2.22: Mac OS X 10.5 — 1.54: Mac OS X 10.4.11 — 0.6.1: Mac OS X 10.3 |
 | Forklift 1.7.8 (BinaryNights) | |
| ForkLift is designed to be the fastest, most powerful file manager for the Mac. Connect to FTP or SFTP servers, manage your Amazon S3 account or your mobile devices over Bluetooth. All these features are beautifully integrated into a sophisticated, yet easy to use Cocoa based interface. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | Spotify 0.6.6.10 (Spotify Ltd) | |
| Spotify is a new way to listen to music. Millions of tracks, any time you like. Just search for it in Spotify, then play it. Just help yourself to whatever you want, whenever you want it. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | Adium 1.4.5 — 1.3.10 (Adium Team) | |
| Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. System Requirements: 1.4.5: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard — 1.3.10: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger |
 | SHOUTcast DNAS 1.9.8 (Nullsoft, Inc.) | |
| With the FREE SHOUTcast broadcasting tools you too can start your own SHOUTcast Radio station and become part of one of the largest directory of radio stations on the web.UPDATE 7/27/2015: Official link is dead and has been removed. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3(?) or later |
 | Tweetie 1.2.8 (Twitter) | |
| This is the last Universal version of a Twitter client that was later purchased by the company and promptly made Intel only.UPDATE 11/18/2017: MacUpdate mirror is dead and has been removed. MacUpdate has been known to insert advertising into their downloads, and will no longer be a trusted mirror source. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later |
 | NEW! Wireshark 1.9.2 (Wireshark Foundation) | |
| Wireshark is the world's foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.Note: Official link requires HTTPS. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later |
Video, Audio & Graphics
 | ImageOptim 1.2.5 (Kornel Lesiński) | |
| ImageOptim optimizes images - so they take up less disk space and load faster - by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | EyeTV 3.4.3 — 3.3.3 (Elgato Systems, LLC) | |
| Turn your Mac into the coolest television in the house. Pause the TV show while you get a snack. Rewind and watch that great play again. Fast forward past the advertisements. Float the EyeTV window on top of other applications to keep an eye on your show while you work or surf the Web, and watch two TV windows Picture-in-Picture. System Requirements: 3.4.3: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard — 3.3.3: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger — All require minimum 500 MHz G4 or G5. |
 | LiveQuartz 1.8.4 — 1.7.3 (RhapSoft) | |
| LiveQuartz is a simple image editor. It is based on layers and CoreImage filters. You have the layers at the left and the filters at the right of the window. To edit an image, just drag it into the window (or layers' list) and it will be added as a new layer. System Requirements: 1.8.4: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — 1.7.3: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger — All require PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | ScreenFlow 2.1.11 — 1.5.4 (Telestream Inc.) | |
| With ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor while also capturing your video camera, microphone and your computer audio. The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog or directly to YouTube or Vimeo. System Requirements: 2.1.11: PowerPC G5 — 1.5.4: PowerPC G4 — All require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Quartz Extreme |
 | HandBrake 0.9.4 (HandBrake Project) | |
| HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.UPDATE 7/27/2015: Official download link has been fixed. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | GraphicConverter 7.6.2 — 6.7.9 (Lemkesoft GmbH) | |
| GraphicConverter offers everything you would need and expect from an all-round image editing program on your Mac with ease of use, an excellent range of features, stability and reliability.UPDATE 6/12/2020: Lemkesoft has released this FREE serial code for use with version 6:Name: GraphicConverter User Code: GCV6-EPARKR-ZAA System Requirements: 7.6.2 (Cocoa): Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — 6.7.9 (Carbon): Mac OS X 10.4.4 or higher |
 | xACT 1.73 (Scott Brown) | |
| xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end to assist in the use of various UNIX based tools for audio compression. It does the basic commands of these applications and adds a few features to speed up productivity in creation of etree.org standard filesets.UPDATE 7/27/2015: Official download link has been fixed. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
Text & Documents
 | Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4 (Adobe Systems Inc.) | |
| Adobe® Reader® software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents. It's the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia.UPDATE 7/27/2015: Official link is dead and has been removed. Only en-US is available on the mirror. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later |
 | TextWrangler 3.5.3 — 3.1 (Bare Bones Software, Inc.) | |
| TextWrangler is the "little brother" to BBEdit, Bare Bones Software's leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. System Requirements: 3.5.3: Mac OS X 10.5 — 3.1: Mac OS X 10.4. |
 | NEW! Evernote 2.2.3 (Evernote Corporation) | |
| From short lists to lengthy research, no matter what form your writing takes, Evernote keeps you focused on moving those ideas from inspiration to completion. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.8 |
Utilities
 | NEW! HexFiend 2.0 (ridiculous_fish) | |
| A fast and clever open source hex editor for Mac OS X. Hex Fiend does not limit you to in-place changes like some hex editors. Hex Fiend can handle as big a file as you're able to create. It's been tested on files as large as 118 GB. Hex Fiend does not keep your files in memory. You won't dread launching or working with Hex Fiend even on low-RAM machines. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
 | File Juicer 4.25 (Echo One) | |
| File Juicer allows you to extract files from other files. File Juicer doesn't care what type file you drop onto it, it searches the entire file. If it finds a JPEG, JP2, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP, WMF, EMF, PICT, TIFF, Flash, Zip, HTML, WAV, AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, MP3, AIFF, AU, MP4 or text file inside, it can save it to your desktop or to another folder you choose. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | The Unarchiver 3.2 (Dag Ågren) | |
| The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "Archive Utility.app", the built-in archive unpacker program on Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.UPDATE 6/12/2020: Official link is dead and has been removed. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | MacTracker 5.3 (Ian Page) | |
| MacTracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
 | Teleport 1.0.1 (AbysSoft) | |
| Teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later |
 | Growl 1.2.2 (Growl Team) | |
| When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will just work. There's no complicated setup; just install Growl once and your apps can start displaying notifications right away. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
Historical
Important: These programs no longer work because their servers have been shut down. They are included for historical and completeness purposes. You cannot use these to sign in, sorry!
 | Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7.0.3 (Microsoft, Inc.) | |
| Messenger for Mac 7.0.3 is an integrated communications client that enables you to communicate with contacts within and outside your organization. Messenger for Mac 7.0.3 makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of real-time communications.Messenger service has been shut down by Microsoft, with users being directed to change to the Skype network. Mirror download will remain for completeness. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later |
 | Skype 2.8.0.866 (Skype) | |
| Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other people.UPDATE 11/18/2017: The classic Skype network is gone, and this client will no longer work. Included for completeness/historical purposes. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later, PowerPC G4 or G5 |
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