MacinCrash For Mac

MacinCrash (retroactively labeled MacinCrash For Mac, sometimes shortened to MCRSH) is a word processor for Macintosh System 7. Its creator code is MCRS.

As of 2.x, it is a modified (resource edited) version of SimpleText, whereas the 1.x release were resource edited versions of TeachText. No versions of the program add or remove features from either of their respective source programs. The application instead presents the same program as the original version, except with all or most of the strings modified to read very anti-Apple/Macintosh messages such as "Beat up Steve Jobs" for Save As and "Get a Fatal Sad Mac!" for About MacinCrash.

MacinCrash was one of WindozeNT Software's launch applications along with The Chooser. Unlike other WindozeNT Software products, MacinCrash does not have any source code available for download or release, as it is just a resource edited version of a proprietary program, and is therefore licensed as a "TeachText proprietary" application.

History
MacinCrash was created by complete accident by WindozeNT. In early 2010, he was experimenting with a copy of ResEdit and TeachText in a Macintosh Plus emulator running System 7. He replaced all the strings in TeachText's resource fork with anti-Apple messages. When all the strings (and some graphics) had been modified, WindozeNT decided to keep the edits made, saving the modified TeachText binary under the name "MacinCrash".

Initially, this version was numbered as v1.0, but required at least System 7 to run. It was changed to be v1.5 after an older binary of TeachText that could run on System 6 and below was found, which after modification became MacinCrash v1.0. All new releases of MacinCrash have their versions incremented by 0.5.

After obtaining a System 7.6 disk image, WindozeNT found SimpleText, which was more featured than TeachText. SimpleText had rich text formatting, whereas TeachText had no support for formatting. SimpleText was modified with ResEdit to become MacinCrash 2.0.

In 2011, WindozeNT made a port of MacinCrash to Windows called MacinCrash For Windoze, which somewhat resembled version 2 of the Macintosh version and like all versions of the original MacinCrash, was a resource edited version of a "default" word processor.

System Requirements
MacinCrash v1.0 requires at least System 3 (it is possible that it can run on older versions though this has not been tested) and 192KB of RAM.

MacinCrash v1.5 and above require at least Macintosh System 7 and either 192KB (for v1.5) or 512KB (for v2.0.x) of RAM.

Development Summary
Version 1.0-2.0.5: Initial and public releases