Re: AWGS problems...

["James R. Sassman" <jsassman@binary.net>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> : I've bought 1.1 a long time ago too.  However, why not try to
> : make it available.  Apple has actually been pretty compliant
> : as far as making old stuff available for free.  For example, they
> : reclassified HyperCard for the IIGS as System Software when
> : users asked.  Apple Australia let Apple II Manuals be reproduced
> : and distributed electronically.  All we have to do is ask.  It
> : can only serve to mend feelings of Apple II users toward Apple.
> 
> Actually they are doing a much better job. As of Jan 31, they made Mac OS
> 7.5.3 free for the downloading. For many years 7.0.1 was the last free
> version. So it is worth a shot I imagine.
> 
> I can't say I'm too fond of having Mr what-have-you-done-for-me-lately
> Steve Jobs running the show again. He doesn't seem keen on supporting
> anything >3 months old. I'm getting rather fed up with the lack of 68K
> software support these days.
> --
> Offsite mail to this host gets nuked.
May be mistaken about this, but I downloaded the upgrades for 7.5.3 from
Apple also.  Got all the way up to 7.5.5 from their ftp site.  I know
I did it because I've still got the disks I made from the disk images
I downloaded.
So, perhaps 7.5.3 was made free lately, but the others have been around
for a while.  Would be good if they'd free up 7.6.1 because it is very
stable.  It's never crashed on my Powerbook 280c unless I caused a problem
running too many programs for the limited memory!

Jim