Q10: Tappy Type meets Darkroom
Back in the day, I used to occasionally play with a Mac program called Tappy Type, which made your computer sound like a typewriter (what can I say; I’m easily amused). The program, a relic of the pre-OS X days, was never updated for modern Macs or ported to Windows, and its developer has apparently moved on to bigger and better things. Fortunately, the Tappy Type concept was recently merged with another of my favorite software concepts—full-screen console-style text editors—resulting in Q10. The free program works the same way as DarkRoom, WriteRoom and its other brethren, with the added excitement of typewriter sound effects (it even has customizable sound themes, in case you prefer, say, the classic Remington effect to the mid-century modern tones of the Selectric). Of course, the sounds can be disabled, but for total nostalgia, there’s nothing like launching Q10, setting the background to white, the font to Courier and cranking up the volume. Now, will someone please tell me how to get that WiteOut off of my screen?
