MacHack Best Hack ContestWe'd like to thank everyone who entered for the fun, excitement, and hacks!
10th Annual MacHax(TM)
MacHack Best Hack Contest
The Ballot -- The Front Side
There is also a Back side (that would be over on the other side of this page).
Check up to five hacks.
Were this the actual ballot, we would encourage you to put ballots in the box in the Holidome by the end of lunch.
| Hack Name | Author(s) | Description | On the CD? | When Built |
| Avi Drissman | Patches 3 security holes in the password protection mechanism of After Dark 3.0d. | Source | Before | |
| watrend | Gavriel State | Portable 3D scanline renderer with sources. BeOS port done at MacHack | Source | During |
| FontMancer | Chuck Simciak | Yet another font utility | Source | Before |
| Directory Lookup | Alex McKale | Apple Employees can now use MPW to track management changes. | No source | During |
| Sparks | Mark Darling | A trail of sparks follow the cursor around on the desktop | Source | During |
| DragClick | Greg Friedman | All TextEdit is draggable (including style info for styled text) | Source | During |
| ArrangeScript | Greg Friedman | Adds inline execution of AppleScript text to CESoftware's WebArranger product. | Source | During |
| MacHack AV Team | Darryl Wattenberg (manager) Josh Dady Mike Davis | Audio/Visual Support for the MacHack '96 Conference | No source | During |
| Scott's Soul | Brian Bechtel | I've stolen Scott's soul for MacHack. | Source | During |
| HyperHack | Allan Bonadio | Hypertext system using very very little compiled code. | Source | During |
| MenuHack | Donald Brown | Adds a menu to your web browser using notes in your WebArranger document! And NO INITS | Source | During |
| XGS | Joshua M. Thompson | Work-in progress Apple IIgs emulator for X windows. | Source | During |
| MenuMadness | Maf Vosburgh | Gives you transparent, animated menus. | Source | During |
| Transporter Pad | Scott Lindsey | Transports drags between two Macintoshes. | No source | Before |
| Java Web Server & WebArranger CGI | Jon Callas | Uses callable Roaster to make a web server which serves information from WebArranger. | Source | During |
| Circle in clouds (Venus) | Oleg Kiselyov | Circle in clouds - simple VR application | Source | Before |
| ModernAntiVirus | Ben Martz | MAV detects and stops Microsoft products from being used, and offers to move the offending program to the trash. | No source | During |
| Rear View Mirror | John Ardussi Ken Hornak |
Zone Raiders, the 3D, hover car game, lets you look in the rear view mirror. Hey, you can see yourself. | No source | During |
| Mac-in-a-Box | Ben Martz | Desktop Power Macintosh in a briefcase. | No source | During |
| Ahhhhhh | Chris Jacobson | Patches ReleaseResource to play a sound... (eew) | Source | During |
| Aaron w/Pop-Up Windows | Greg Landweber | Adds pop-up windows to Aaron NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION. (parts of the original extension by Ed Voas) | No source | During |
| NSQTVR Plugin | Jon Summers | Quicktime VR plugin for Internet browsers. | Source | During |
| BreakArt and QuickCapture Plug-ins | Matt Foster | These are plug-ins for the Adobe Illustrator 6.0 application. BreakArt is a breakout game using Illustrator artwork. AIQuickCapture grabs a video frame and makes a raster object. Turn yourself into a wall of bricks and smash away. | Source | During |
| FMWM | Rob Hagopian (w/Oleg Kiselyov) |
Attempts to simulate window focus changes through mouse pointer. | Source | During |
| DragPath Unbound | Pete Gontier, Apple Mac DTS Drag Queen | Allows drags from Finder into any Drag Mgr aware app which accepts text. Creates textual full pathname in various formats. | No source | Before |
| Hungry Homer (RURL) | Sean Harper, Jesse Boettcher with help from Steve Javonovic and that little kid who bugged us. | Cool hack, example of Apple Event and other cool stuff and animation. Whoever wrote this is god. | Source | During |
| Translucent Power Windows | Greg Landweber | Drags translucent windows. | No source | Before |
| ObiWan dcmd | Quinn "The Eskimo!" | This dcmd allows you to access ObiWan information from inside MacsBug. | Source | During |
| FinderFlocks | Dave Johnson | Flocks the icons in the front
finder window (with a lot of stolen AppleEvent code from Greg Anderson). |
Source | During |
| When In Rome | Barry Semo | Converts all decimal numbers to Roman numerals. | Source | During |
| FlyPaper | Damon Cokenias | A drag hack that implements the Newton-style clipboard. Also has other features (with some preexisting code). | No source | During |
| PowerBreakfastBook | Eric Slosser | Nutritional and computational needs satisfied. | No source | During |
| AudioCD dcmd | Christopher Evans | A MacsBug dcmd that lets you play audio CDs | Source | Before |
| Talking Telnet | Nevin ":-)" Liber | Added Speech capabilities to NCSA Telnet | No source | During |
| TickTalk addition | Christopher Evans | A DragStrip addition that will display the current time in words in many different languages | No source | During |
| Instant Web | Roy Leban | Patches DrawString to automatically load any URLs displayed anywhere on your screen, in windows, dialog boxes, title bars, even menus. You better have a fast connection! | No source | After |
| Video Pumps | Timothy Knox && Patrick Lavelle | Video Pump for under $300 | No source | During |
| QuidProNo! | j geagan | Source | During | |
| troZ!!! CGI | Grant Neufeld | Randomly interrupts documents being returned from the server. | Source | During |
| Booting Gallery | John Wallace, Jörg Brown, Sheila Wallace and mysterious Mr. X | Enjoy a booting gallery with extension icons in the classic shoot-em-ups Duck Shoot and Asteriods. Don't get hit or suffer the consequences. | Source | During |
| EREFUGEE T-Shirt | James Goebel | TShirt for eWorld expatriots. | Source | During |
| Natural Order | Stuart Cheshire | Makes the Finder sort names containing numbers in the sensible order | Source | During |
| Vowel Doubler | Shane D. Looker | Doubles your vowels | Source | During |
| StockHack | Dmitry Dolinsky | Talking stock quotes for WebArranger | No source | During |
| 3D No 'doz | Michael Hopkins Glenn Austin |
Replaces system startup logo | Source | During |
| TrimScreen | Stuart Cheshire | For cracked PowerBook screens -- trims broken pixels from the edges | Source | Before |
| Submit Hack | Chris Allen and friends | Automates submissions of files | Source | During |
| ABC Hack | Jon Gowtow, Nathan Tennis, Jeff Walker | This allows the finder to sort files names with numbers to sort by numeric value | Source | During |
| CorelDraw! OpenDoc Viewer Hack | Gav State and Marc Sherman | An OpenDoc part viewer for CorelDRAW! CMX export files, built in 24 hours | No source | During |
| CleanupBy | Glenn Austin | Adds hierarchical menu to the Special's "Clean Up" menu | Source | Before |
| VideoFolder | Keith Stattenfield | Creates a group of tiled Finder icons representing the video input on the machine. | Source | During |
| NewtVisualizer | Jim Schram | Mirror a Newton screen on the Mac for use in presentations | No source | During |
| Programmer's Time | Chris Espinosa and Dave Winer | Makes the system clock run at half speed, so your projects get done on time. | Source | During |
| O Boy | Bob Boylan | O Boy allows you to navigate the AEOM. | Source | Before |
| Joust with the Keynote Whiner | Howard Cash (and the SPROCKETS team) | Extension to the Grypha "Joust" game with our keynote speaker replacing one of the "friends" | Source | During |
The Ballot -- The Back Side
(there's more on the other side of this page, eh!)
Circle up to 5 hacks
WebArranger Hacks (select only one)
| Java Web Server & WebArranger CGI | Jon Callas | Uses callable Roaster to make a web server which serves information from WebArranger. | Source | During |
| ArrangeScript | Greg Friedman | Adds inline execution of AppleScript text to CESoftware's WebArranger. | Source | During |
| StockHack | Dmitry Dolinsky | Talking stock quotes for WebArranger | No source | During |
| No award |
MacHack XI, 1996