#Popchar windows free mac os x#
PopChar has been running on all types of processors that have been used in Macs: starting with the first 68000 processors, up to the Motorola 68030, then various PowerPC models, and now Macs with multiple Intel processors in 64-bit technology.I’ll just quote here a few interesting bits: The PopChar History page does indeed save me a lot of work and you’ll find there all the details and screenshots illustrating how the software UI changed over the years. This software has been around for 27 years. See … for a history of PopChar.ġ987! Earlier than I remembered. The first version of PopChar was released in 1987.
So I asked the developers over Twitter, and they replied: I recalled I was using it under System 7 in the mid-1990s, but I didn’t know exactly when the very first version appeared. Fast, intuitive, and quickly out of the way. You could select the needed symbol and have it inserted right away. With PopChar installed, you clicked on the little ‘P’ and a pop-up character palette appeared. Suppose you were writing a document and needed to insert a special character or a symbol and you didn’t remember the correct keyboard shortcut (or there wasn’t a direct keyboard shortcut to begin with). When running, it placed a little ‘P’ in the menubar (usually in the top left corner near the Apple logo, but you could customise the ‘hot spot’). PopChar was a very useful addition to my Macs and I used it regularly up to Mac OS 9.2.2. The other day I was reading Longstanding Mac Apps by Shawn Blanc, and I remembered a great Mac utility that’s been around for a long time: PopChar.