Re: OT: is appleworks free and where do i find it?

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

  Beverly,

      Well that will teach me to make message in 4 in the morning..  

    Yeah, that answered my question.  I knew AppleWorks 3.0 was Claris
(A Divsion of Apple which is called FileMaker now).  But I couldn't
remeber who did 4.0 and 5.0..  

    Yeah, that is true, I have seen AppleWorks 4.0 and 5.0 on net. I
never played with them though.  My Appleworks 3.0 works fine for me, I
just never knew what was new in the versions.  :/

    Now I wish I could find AppleWorks GS 1.1.. My legal disks don't
work any more.. :(   

     -Lockar


In article <20031130142417.02133.00001026@mb-m16.aol.com>, A2MG
<a2mg@aol.comNomail> wrote:

> >Can you clear something up for me, I am little confused on
> >AppleWorks history.   
> >
> >   The last Apple // version that was relased was AppleWorks 3.0
> >correct?  
> 
> No, this is not correct.
> 
> > So did 4.0 and 5.1? 
> 
> What?
> 
> > Didn't Apple sell AppeWorks to who did
> >those or is 4.0 and 5.1 just all the Begal Bros stuff inbeded into the
> >complete package?
> 
> Apple licensed AppleWorks to Quality Computers, and programmers Randy Brandt
> and Dan Verkade wrote the updates to AppleWorks 4 (last version was v4.3) and
> AppleWorks 5 (last version was 5.1). Only some of the Beagle Bros products
> were
> incorporated. Other Beagls Bros applications were updated to work alongside
> the
> new versions of AppleWorks.
> 
> After the license ended, control reverted to Apple. We had some discussion
> with
> the programmers to try to license it for development of an AppleWorks 6.0.
> Although we could have done an upadate without Apple (using patches),
> unfortunately, at the same time, the appearance of an illegal upload of
> AppleWorks on the web ended any hope of that.
> 
> 
> 
> Beverly Cadieux 
> TEXAS II an international newsletter for users of AppleWorks(R) 5.1 
>