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AppleWorks for OS8?

I have ClarisWorks 5 running in OS 8.6 within SheepShaver - it runs fine and will convert documents created with earlier versions of ClarisWorks.

I am using this setup as a 'Classic Mac', and can now play games I'd given up for lost. 🙂 I've also copied across personal documents - however, some of these were created using AppleWorks 6, and that won't run in OS8 ("Cannot find CarbonLib"). CW5 just balks, saying "Document created by a later version and cannot be opened".

Is there any way around this, for example an earlier version of AW6 that WILL run in OS8 but WON'T refuse to open documents by a later incremental version of AW6?

iMac Core i5 12GB RAM-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 4, 2016 2:31 PM

19 replies

Feb 8, 2016 1:08 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

It's not a huge "must do". I only got SheepShaver running in order to play some old games. Once there it was also kind of cool to see snapshots of my data as it was in the late 90s. Of course, there are later documents in the same folders created in AW6 and it was just irritating when I tried to open and view them, to be told I couldn't.

Since adding the DataViz folder to Claris in the System Folder, CW5 now thinks it's AW6!

I can't get QuickTime running there either but other apps work fine. However, this is all beginning to take up too much of my time so I'm just going to stop at playing games and occasionally looking at old data files.

It's quite instructive though - between Basilisk, SheepShaver, Rosetta, LibreOffice and all, there's very little old data that can't be recovered. And for all that pre-OS X does look a bit primitive, there are other things such as icons as buttons and collapsing windows to windowshades, that have never been brought into OS X more's the pity.

MlchaelLAX

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Feb 8, 2016 1:37 PM in response to christopher rigby1

There are practical reasons for this knowledge, too.

For example, my ex-wife needed a total of remodeling costs from our home together during three years back in the 80's. In those days, I kept track of my personal finances, on an Apple \\c using Time is Money and I still have the disks.

I have an operating Apple //c but this program has difficulties exporting data, so...

I transferred the //c disks to image files on my Mac and used the program Virtual ][ to actually run them on the Mac. There was a bug in TIM so that Virtual ][ would not run this program, but I contacted the developer and he fixed the bug for me!

I then saved the reports as PDF files by "printing them to pdf" on the Mac, cleaning them up and importing them into Excel. I was finally able to achieve a complete report for her needs:

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Feb 9, 2016 3:11 AM in response to MlchaelLAX

Impressive. It reminds me that in the early 90s my first computer was a pre-Windows MS DOS PC. I've not been able to run Soft-PC for years so it was pretty amazing to discover DOSBox, through which I can actually run the Mini Office Personal I used - and I still have the data!

MlchaelLAX

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Feb 9, 2016 7:29 AM in response to christopher rigby1

I was just setting up some old PPC applications on my Snow Leopard partition and came across DataViz MacLinkPlus Deluxe. I guess it operated in Snow Leopard, too:

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AppleWorks for OS8?