It is a truly great piece of software. It may be dated by today's standards but this was one of the shining stars in the Mac land long before the iApps hit the scene.
It has gone virtually untouched for years as Apple, first killed Claris Inc, then brought ClarisWorks (later re-named AppleWorks) in house and left it to die - but it still runs on Apple's latest OS.
That says an awful lot for the developers behind AppleWorks. They built an app that was compact, full-featured (for its time), fast, ran in a tiny memory footprint and was easy to use. They pretty much followed Apple's constantly changing API setup to the nail without cutting the corners that would have seen many other apps break horribly long before Tiger.
It was innovative and, given the resources, could have travelled the same prosperous road as Filemaker.
It's a shame that Apple politics have led to the demise of AppleWorks and I for one will miss it (as I'm sure it won't run on Leopard) in a couple of years.
No doubt, Microsoft played a part in Apple leaving it to stagnate.
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Please. A little respect for AppleWorks.
It is a truly great piece of software. It may be dated by today's standards but this was one of the shining stars in the Mac land long before the iApps hit the scene.
It has gone virtually untouched for years as Apple, first killed Claris Inc, then brought ClarisWorks (later re-named AppleWorks) in house and left it to die - but it still runs on Apple's latest OS.
That says an awful lot for the developers behind AppleWorks. They built an app that was compact, full-featured (for its time), fast, ran in a tiny memory footprint and was easy to use. They pretty much followed Apple's constantly changing API setup to the nail without cutting the corners that would have seen many other apps break horribly long before Tiger.
It was innovative and, given the resources, could have travelled the same prosperous road as Filemaker.
It's a shame that Apple politics have led to the demise of AppleWorks and I for one will miss it (as I'm sure it won't run on Leopard) in a couple of years.
No doubt, Microsoft played a part in Apple leaving it to stagnate.