iMac Intel & Clarisworks

All versions of ClarisWorks & AppleWorks 5 cannot run in OS X. An Intel Mac can't use Classic, so you would have to use AppleWorks 6. AppleWorks 6.2.9 (the current version) can't open all ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files. It gives an I/O error. There doesn't appear to be a way to predict which files will cause problems. I've had it happen & not happen with all AppleWorks file types. These files can be opened by any other version of AppleWorks 6, so a good choice would be AppleWorks 6.2.4. AppleWorks 6.2.4 is the earliest version stable in OS X. Avoid 6.2.7 - very, very, very buggy! Hardcore Mac is selling AppleWorks 6.2.4 for a reasonable price. You also can sometimes find AppleWorks 6 on eBay, but it might be difficult to be sure it's no newer than 6.2.4 and has an OS X-aware installer.

maestra_mini

If you still have your iMac G4 there is an Applewroks 6.2.2 installer on the Applications disk which came with the Mac's System Disks.

i just installed this onto my Intel MacBook and updated to 6.2.9 available from the downloads link in the purple (lilac?) bar across the top of this page.

Stuart

cStu,

You replied to my post rather than the OP's.

The OP should not update to 6.2.9 if s/he has any ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files. AppleWorks 6.2.9 cannot open all of them. This is why I recommended AppleWorks 6.2.4. You can find the updater 6.2.4 here. Also, if you, the OP or anyone else uses the installer from another Mac or copies over the AppleWorks application, no copies should remain on any other computer. The Apple software license states it can only exist on one computer at a time. A backup copy on a CD/DVD does not appear to violate the license.

Apologies, Peggy. I shouldn't have mentioned 6.2.9

for clarity I should mention that I have two working computers and two AW6 licenses ;~)

Stuart

Certainly no reflection on you, Stuart. It's a "disclaimer" I feel I need to put in whenever the subject of installing or copying comes up. I have five AppleWorks 6 licenses & still end up shuffling them around so I can legally use AW.

The important point is that AppleWorks 6.2.9 won't open a lot of those older ClarisWorks files. I keep AppleWorks 5 on my G5 mostly for that reason.

Re Appleworks and intel...

I just got a MacBook Pro intel, and the support people told me I couldn't run Appleworks on it at all. Some of you seem to have had success with 6.2 or later -- but I can't install my AW 6 on the new machine, and the upgrade only works once the basic program is installed.

Support told me Pages would translate my files, but now I find that's only for word processing files? Help! Did Apple sell me a machine that won't read my old files, and doesn't even have a new app to take over?

Grateful for any advice,

-- Confused

I just got a MacBook Pro intel, and the support
people told me I couldn't run Appleworks on it at
all.

David,

That AppleWorks 6 won't run on the intel machines appears to be a common misconception among Apple's support people. I was told the same thing in the Chicago Apple Store a few months ago.

The truth is that AppleWorks 6.2.9 (or 6.2.4) runs quite well on these machines, using Rosetta (which is built in).

However, depending on when and how you got AppleWorks, your AppleWorks INSTALLER may require Mac OS 9.2.x, and THAT will not work on the intel Macs as they do not support Classic. If that's the case for you, see Peggy's posts earlier in this thread.

Regards,
Barry

Welcome to Apple Discussions David

As Barry said, AppleWorks 6 (use 6.2.4 or 6.2.9 for the above reasons) will run well on an Intel Mac. The editors of the AppleWorks User Group Journal did extensive testing on side-by-side G5 & Intel iMacs. You can download a PDF copy of their results at http://www.awug.org/. I, personally, have AppleWorks 6.2.9 on my MacBook Pro. Although I don't use it as often as I do on my G5, it works just as well & just as fast on the MBP 2.0 GHz with 1 GB of RAM as it does on the 2.3 dual G5 with 3 GB of RAM.

Hello,

I use Appleworks in my classroom . The paint and draw app's are my chalkboard , as I project my lesson, from my 12" G4 , through a Toshiba TLP-S30U media projector, onto a 7-foot diagonal screen.

I use a WACOM bluetooth graphics tablet to write.

QUESTION: If I buy an intel laptop ( Mackbook or Mackbook Pro ) , wil there be any latency as I draw with the WACOM pen : will the projected handwriting lag behind my hand motions, perhaps due to Rosetta or the integrated graphics in the Macbook ?

This would make it un-usable.

If anyone has actually tried this out, please let me know.

Thanks,

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I've not used a tablet with any of my Macs, so I can't say for sure how using an Intel Mac would affect it. I would look to the tablet manufacturer's web site for a driver. A driver incompatibility would be the only thing I think would be a problem. AppleWorks 6.2.9 works just as fast, if not faster for some things, on my 2.0 GHz MacBook Pro with 1 GB of RAM compared to my dual 2.3 GHz G5 tower with 3 GB of RAM. You'd think a slower, single processor & a third of the RAM as well as running under Rosetta would make AppleWorks considerably slower on the MBP, but it doesn't.