AppleWorks well and alive in Lion

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AppleWorks well and alive in Lion

No, i'm not mad, look at these screenshots.

Thanks to VirtualBox 4.0, and thanks to HardMac, I was able to virtualize Snow Leopard in Lion so I may run AppleWorks with my Lion iMac.

Now, I'm waiting for a new version of VMWARE FUSION to get a more powerful virtual machine.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 30 juillet 2011 22:28:14

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

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To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

Posted on Jul 30, 2011 1:29 PM

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chipperz

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Aug 1, 2011 10:43 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

That's great! I'm running mine using VMWare 3.1 and Windows XP on a virtual machine. It runs well and it feels good to use AppleWorks again.As a note, I have a copy of AppleWorks for Windows. I'm glad I bought it a long time ago when I was still running a PC. I didn't like MS Works and my local Office Depot has a cvopy of AppleWorks for Windows so I decided to tgive it a try. Even though I know I can run the word processing files and the spreadsheet files under ther programs, there was no app for the database. I wish Apple would reinstitute AppleWorks, but the chances of that happening are slim and none and slim just left town.

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graphico

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Aug 12, 2011 10:47 PM in response to chipperz

I'm just switching to Bento

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KOENIG Yvan Author

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Aug 13, 2011 12:41 AM in response to chipperz

You are running AppleWorks 5 but I am running AppleWorks 6.9.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 13 août 2011 09:40:59

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KOENIG Yvan Author

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Aug 13, 2011 12:42 AM in response to graphico

graphico wrote:

I'm just switching to Bento

Good luck.

You are replacing a tool by a toy.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 13 août 2011 09:42:01

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

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graphico

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Aug 13, 2011 8:09 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

That's hilarious Yvan. Yes AppleWorks is a really modern up to date tool. LOL It hasn't changed or advanced since I started using it in 1984 and it was called 3 EZ Pieces on the Apple /// computer

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Aug 18, 2011 9:14 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Good to see your comments Yvan.

I am desperate to use my AppleWorks on my new iMac with Lion. Currently my MacBook Pro has all the power that the iMac 3.4ghz i7, 16GB does not have simply because it will not run AW.

Could you possibly lay out a list of things I need to do to get AW working on the iMac.

I have already discovered that iMovie6HD will run on the iMac but iDVD6 will not. But that is a problem for another session.

Any advice for AW would be sincerely appreciated. I have PAGES '08 and MS WORD 11 but don't like either. However, I did notice that WORD has now gone to the menu bar similar to AW. Getting away from those floating windows is a step in the right direction.

Hello Steve Jobs... are you listening?

Harold

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KOENIG Yvan Author

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Aug 18, 2011 9:22 AM in response to graphico

It just seems that you are unable to read.

I didn't wrote that AppleWorks is a modern tool. I wrote that it's a tool and I repeat that Bento is no more than a toy.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 18 août 2011 18:21:48

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KOENIG Yvan Author

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Aug 18, 2011 9:31 AM in response to Harold Coates

Hello

I wrote :

Thanks to VirtualBox 4.0, and thanks to HardMac, I was able to virtualize Snow Leopard in Lion so I may run AppleWorks with my Lion iMac.

Searching for the highlighted strings, brought to :

the link is :

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2011/07/06/a-snow-leopard-vm-on-mac-os-lion

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 18 août 2011 18:29:58

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To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

PS. Here we are end users trying to help other end users. I doubt that Steve Jobs visit this forum.

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Lexiepex

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Sep 9, 2011 7:57 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Hi Yvan,

yes, and it works with Parallels Desktop version 7 too....

(still warm in Vallauris, that you have to have your dinner inside?).

regards,

Lex

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KOENIG Yvan Author

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Sep 9, 2011 8:05 AM in response to Lexiepex

Thanks

(1) Is it working in full window ? In VirtualBox it works in a small window.

(2) Is the keyboard remapped to the mac one ?

(3) Now the temperature is fine for us … but also for mosquitos. So we stay inside 😟

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 9 septembre 2011 17:04:41

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Lexiepex

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Sep 9, 2011 8:12 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

(1), yes

(2) I don't know

(3) prepare an extra good meal..😁

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Answer 12

Sep 16, 2011 5:12 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Could an operating system that supports AppleWorks be installed on the iMac, in addition to the OS that comes from the factory and that doesn't run AW? I run AW on a MacBook with OS 10.4.11 and perhaps could transfer that OS from that computer to a new iMac, along with all my AW spreadsheets.

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Answer 13

Sep 16, 2011 5:20 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

1. Get AppleWorks working in Lion.

2. ???

3. PROFIT!

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KOENIG Yvan Author

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Sep 17, 2011 1:09 AM in response to Keith Nichols

I don't know which is your iMac.

AppleWorks.The ones which are delivered at this time are the same than those delivered before Lion delivery so we may run them under Snow Leopard and use .

One or two days ago, I read that the macmini delivered at this time are also able to run under Snow Leopard.

10.4.11 seems too old for recent machines.

Elliot Jordan's answer is so ridiculous that I will not waste time commenting it.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 17 septembre 2011 10:09:22

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Answer 15

Sep 17, 2011 11:30 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Yvan, I don't delve into the various Apple forums until I have a question, which isn't all that often, and it's good to see that you're still offering your expertise to all and sundry. My eyes are not as keen as they were, so my question today is how to get a larger display than my MacBook provides. I was prepared to switch to an iMac, but the Apple store tells me, as does this forum, that its OS (Lion, I believe) won't run my collection of Appleworks spreadsheets.

My first thought was that maybe my Tiger OS (10.4.11) could be loaded onto the iMac in addition to or as a replacement for the Lion OS. Or that I could hook the MacBook to the iMac and boot from the MacBook OS in a way that opens the spreadsheets on the iMac.

This morning I'm wondering whether I can't avoid the expense of an iMac altogether by hooking an after-market monitor to my MacBook. I'm looking at the web site for the ViewSonic VX2450wm.

I suspect Apple is losing a fair number of sales on its latest machines simply because they can't run Appleworks spreadsheets, and maybe even word-processor files. Many of us have spent a good many hours devising clever combinations of logic functions to do things such as tax forms and business records and having to redo them in another language in order to humor the deficiency of a machine costing upward of a thousand dollars seems a bit much.

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