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AppleWorks 6.2.2 for Windows uploaded!

Dunno if this is the entire install. I know I got a workable install from these two files, but may have downloaded the fonts elsewhere.

Here it is -> http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/appleworks-6

Windows files are at the bottom of the list (3 files)

If someone can test this on a non-production machine, I would be most grateful!

I included the 3 freely available PDF docs, and the 6.2.2 updater.

(One of the very few Apple applications to get ported to Windows!)

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Big thanks from the Windows platforms has to go to you!
Installer and updater are working fine with Windows7-64 Ultimate, and the fonts seem to be there too.
Functional installers for old 32 bit software are not too common on 64 bit systems these days.

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I wonder if anyone has the full hybrid 6.2 CD in English? Just for the sake of completeness Smile

The datasheet can be found here.

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Thought I saw a 120+ MB download torrent, but no seeds -- Torrent was many many years old...

I would assume (if it were legit) that this was the disk image, but not entirely sure.

I will continue to look, although I know I never had the full CD.

I found this with a quick Google search -- Hybrid CD of AppleWorks 5.03:

http://www.mediafire.com/?moqd56abma282mz

Still searching for 6.x

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Highly suspect Hybrid CD of 6.x for Windows/Mac available for purchase here:

http://hardcoremac.stores.yahoo.net/apforwi.html

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If forum posts allowed stars I'd give you 10

Oh here you go Star Star Star Star Star Star Star Star Star Star

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Thank you for posting this program,

I have been an AppleWorks user ever since... I forgot when,
but I still use AppleWorks 3 a lot (for the Apple II)
now I think I completed my collection of AppleWorks.

The software installed and works well under Windows XP.

also What did you mean by " a non-production machine,"?

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The download was not found on my 1.5TB backup HDD, because I accidentally FORMATTED IT!

Not a single file was recovered, but I did find this on a File Sharing site, and a dubious warez forum, so the warning was more -- "watch out for viruses" than anything else.

I'm glad it was what was advertised! Smile

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I wish there was a hardware write protection on USB backup drives, like the one on SD drives.
I recently nuked my 1TB too and recovery was so poor that it seemed useless.
Wanted to format a thumb drive and got things mixed up on XP.

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I had two internal 1.5TB (forgot my original was partitioned 1.5TB, and thought it was 1TB + 500MB). Decided to do a firmware format via PCI SATA card, format had not reached 1% when I realised and pulled the plug. Not a single byte was recoverable. That was my backup disk of AT LEAST TWO YEARS. All my torrents, downloads, drivers, installers -- gone in an instant. Once I realised no recovery was possible, I took a deep breath, and started replacing all I could. I am only missing one or two games, and all my hentai/manga

I will be WAAAAYYY more careful when formatting drives in the future.

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Maybe I´ll name mine "Dont_Delete01" and so on in Windows. Smile
Might be better than naming drives after our cats (Kitschie, Löwe, Giro, Samba etc.)
I was shocked that (Freeware) NTFS recovery didn´t come up with something useful.
I thought NTFS would store several copies of the drive´s main directory and I should have
been on the safe side unless I actually wrote to the drive.
I recall I solved hopeless cases with SUM on my MacII, But SUM wasn´t free of course.
You get what you pay for, Hm?

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I use (Full) NTFS Recovery, and it did not find a single file (after 48 HOURS of scanning). This wonderful software saved me when I did a software format of a 500GB external (by mistake, yet again). It got all 430GB of data back intact.

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but I did find this on a File Sharing site, and a dubious warez forum, so the warning was more -- "watch out for viruses" than anything else.

I'm glad it was what was advertised!

How come you did not warn us where you found this software? (and its warnings)
and waited until we tested out for you?

Now I´m kinda upset by that,
what if it had virus?
now I take back my "thank you"

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Ouch to the format. Should only happen to each of us just once. Formatted the wrong drive more than once in the past, but everything is backed up - so there's the original downloads or documents and then backed up to another drive. They also get burned to DVD-R (a tedious process and rather expensive once you get into the thousands of DVD's (only 4TB) especially if you keep two or three DVD copies - like OS boot disks or those you need for games (not a big fan of noCD or noDVD patches unless I'm on my PBG4).

I used to backup the backups to another Mac when everything was wired together with GB Ethernet cable, but too many wireless conenctions now. If there's anything you still need that I might need, let us know - can't help with the movies.

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@Euryale -- sorry you didn't catch my veiled warning "Do not use on production machines" as meaning "untested from unknown source". With my backup CDs failing more and more often, and after deleting all my copied Mac files, I felt I needed to give back, even if I took a dubious approach.

Please accept my unreserved apology...

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i took the liberty to atually scan it, and here is what CalmXav gives me

Starting scan…

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 1043558
Engine version: 0.97.2
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 15.67 MB
Data read: 15.58 MB (ratio 1.01:1)
Time: 7.174 sec (0 m 7 s )

No infected files were found.

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We takes what we gets nowadays. Something is better than nothing.

I've never used CD-Rs as backups for software, but some that I burned a few years ago with MP3's are now having some files unreadable, so I'm glad I didn't go that route. I keep everything on hard drives, which I DON'T format after the first time. Tongue

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Thanks for the v5 iso themacmeister. I had that one already. I thought I'd got it from here but perhaps not.

Sorry to hear about your hd mishap. I've been fairly lucky when it comes to hard drive storage. Unlike CD/DVD where I've had a few discs go bad over time. There are a bunch of different tools for undeleting and restoring lost partitions but it seems to be hit-and-miss whether they work.