Q: appleworks 6

AppleWorks does not work in Lion.

OS 10.6 is the latest that will support it via Rosetta.

If you are unable to find a suitable replacement for AppleWorks, or are unwilling to do so, consider installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels 7 in Lion and run AppleWorks concurrently:

Some people have expressed compatibility problems with data files from AppleWorks when opened in other programs.

Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

Appleworks was the most popular Apple program for a long time.  I also upgraded to Lion and then found out it didn't work any loonger..  Getting rid of Lion and resinstalling Snow Leopard was a *****.  I couldn't do it, so I ended up paying about $95 for service to get the whole mess straightened out.

I read that there were other programs that wouldn't work on Lion.

Wouldn't it have been nice of Apple to put a warning on Lion's installation disc or download site to alert users that Lion wouldn't support all the programs that had been supported by previous operating systems.  They must have known, especially in regards to Appleworks.

Years ago I paid $50 for a Harmon Kardon subwoofer for my Apple (the one with the half-ball base).  Soon after that they came out w/ a new OS, and there went my subwoofer down the drain.

You'd think those brainy engineers would have enough common sense to anticipate the problems they cause every time they modify the OSs.

Hi Dorsey,

Apple declared EOL for AppleWorks in 2004 or 2005. EOL defined briefly, means Apple would no longer sell or actively support the application.

Knowledge that Rosetta, required to run software written for PPC systems on machines with intel processors, woulld not be compatible with Lion, was presaged by its being an optional install, with the default set to omit, in Leopard and Snow Leopard.

So for those who had been paying attention, it wasn't really a surprise that AW (and all other PPC applications) wouldn't run under Lion. The surprise is more that it continued to run under current versions of the OS for as long as it did.

There's always the danger that older software (or hardware) won't run on newer machines—the Zip dirve I bought to connect to my Perform 6100 couldn't connect with the iMac G3 700 that replaced it. Neither would the 3.5" floppies, or much of the software they contained. Things change.

As for the brainy engineers—they did come up with Rosetta, which kept AppleWorks running for many years past its announced EOL date. I think those of us who bought AppleWorks, or received it bundled with a then new computer, got our money's worth. 

Regards,

Barry

Two corrections:

Knowledge that Rosetta, required to run software written for PPC systems on machines with intel processors, woulld not be compatible with Lion, was presaged by its being an optional install, with the default set to omit, in Leopard and Snow Leopard.

That was only true for Snow Leopard client; Snow Leopard Server and Leopard install Rosetta by default. 

So for those who had been paying attention, it wasn't really a surprise that AW (and all other PPC applications) wouldn't run under Lion. The surprise is more that it continued to run under current versions of the OS for as long as it did.

Apple merely promoted the fact that Rosetta would not be included with the then upcoming release of Lion.  Most normal, everday user of Macs had no idea what Rosetta was, that they were using it and what its elimination would mean for their everyday use. 

Rosetta was too effective in what it was intended to do: allow purchasers of new Intel Macs to continue to utilize their PowerPC apps in a transparent, seemless way! 

Imagine the horror of an unknown PowerPC app users who attempts to run their PowerPC apps that first day after upgrading to Lion or Mt. Lion!?  It is a horribly unsettling experience to see that PowerPC Dialog Box, as is expressed by many new upgraders on this forum most every week...