Free word processor for Mac OS 9?

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Free word processor for Mac OS 9?

Hi. I just installed an old printer in my iBook, and the printer does work, but for some reason it only prints from Mac OS 9 and not OS X. (I think the printer software predates Mac OS X).

This means, everytime I want to use this printer, I have to go into classic (OS 9) and then print from there. The problem is, I don't have any word processors in OS 9 that I can use (at least I can't find any). I tried using Note Pad and SimpleText but they're not really good as word processors.

So, I was wondering if anyone knows of a free word processor for OS 9? And if so, where can I download it?

iBook G4 (12 inches) 512MB SDRAM + 160GB FireWire External, Mac OS X (10.3.9), Sony DCRTRV140, 5th generation iPod (30GB)

Posted on Feb 26, 2006 9:45 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 27, 2006 5:52 AM in response to Cristobal

WordPerfect is freeware & works great in OS 9 & below.

WordPerfect 3.5e - Word Processor
http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/corel/wpmac.html

WordPerfect Conversions - Among the conversions are MacLink, all popular graphics formats, Microsoft Word 6, Quark XPress, and PageMaker.
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/text/wp/word-perfect-conver sions-20.hqx

Word Perfect 3.5e - Word Processor application, updates, manual
ftp://ftp.r8ix.com/WP-L_Stuff/

Cheers, Tom

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Answer 2

Feb 28, 2006 3:01 AM in response to Cristobal

Cristobal,

which printer is it ? You may find that there is an OSX printer driver for it, maybe now in an all-in-one download from the manufacturer. My old HP deskjets (bought at the time of OS8.1) still work a dream in OSX 10.3.

My old (System 6) Stylewriter 1200 works in OS9 (using some other Stylewriter driver) , but not managed to get it working in OSX yet - not that I'm going to bother to try any more.

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Answer 3

Feb 28, 2006 12:43 PM in response to Cristobal

Check your system and/or your System Install disc for AppleWorks.

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Answer 4

order99

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Feb 28, 2006 3:52 PM in response to Cristobal

I'm a huge Appleworks fan myself...not free,but pretty inexpensive. If free is what you're looking for though,I recommend the Versiontracker site under the OS 8/9 heading. They've got at least a dozen pages of them-a few updates for commercial product, shareware and about 25% or so freeware.I can go in there looking for a simple say, Image viewer...and hours later,i'm still window shopping...
The Pure Mac site is nice as well,but it isn't quite as complete.They do have OS X stuff as well if you happen to use that OS as well.

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Answer 5

taerchen

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Feb 28, 2006 5:07 PM in response to Cristobal

WordPerfect 3.5e is a great word processing program with a number of great features. Also, the Tex-Edit program, while ostensibly a text editor, is virtually a full word processor, too. That is TEX as in "Texas," not Text-Edit, a different but similar program. It is available from www.tex-edit.com.

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Answer 6

May 3, 2006 5:27 PM in response to Texas Mac Man

WordPerfect is freeware & works great in OS 9 &
below.

And in OSX Classic - a Spotlight plugin has even been written for it.

WordPerfect Conversions - Among the conversions are
MacLink, all popular graphics formats, Microsoft Word
6, Quark XPress, and PageMaker.
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/t
ext/wp/word-perfect-conversions-20.hqx

Conversions 2.1 has minor updates. Free at the Yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac/

G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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