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Re: Appleworks 5.0
- Subject: Re: Appleworks 5.0
- From: kindall@ic.net (Jerry Kindall)
- Date: 17 Oct 1994 23:16:37 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: ICNet ... Your Link to the Internet ... 313-998-0090
- References: <Pine.SOL.3.90.941016223520.29408B-100000@darkwing>
John David Duncan (jdd@darkwing) wrote:
: Appleworks 5.0 will be released next week (Quality Computers,
: 1-800-777-3642) on 3 1/2" disk only.
: Now, I'm annoyed. I'm the only Apple 2 user I know of in my area, I'll
: have a brand-new harddrive to install Appleworks on, but I don't have a 3
: 1/2" drive...
: QC should know that Apple users support them largely because we DON'T
: have the kind of local userbases that IBM & Mac users have and that would
: get me out of this problem.
AppleWorks 5 requires a 3.5" drive or a hard drive to run. This is
because, to make room for new features, Randy removed the code that
checks to make sure the proper disk is in the drive and prompts you to
put it in if it's not. So now the program must fit all on one disk.
We are not advertising it as a 5.25" disk program because you can't RUN
it from 5.25" disks. Last I heard, though, we WILL be offering a 5.25"
disk set which can be used to INSTALL AW5 on a hard drive.
Jerry Kindall
Quality Computers