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ClarisWorks was an amazingly easy way to ween tech illiterate people into a tech workspace. I’ve seen a required tech course for education majors take people w

by csa 4y ago

ClarisWorks was an amazingly easy way to ween tech illiterate people into a tech workspace. I’ve seen a required tech course for education majors take people who literally did not know how to use a mouse from zero ability to being able to develop a variety of quite good multimedia projects using ClarisWorks. It was like witnessing a miracle. Thank you, Bob!

jonpurdy 4y ago
As a TPM, I actually use ClarisWorks 4.0 (in SheepShaver) in drawing mode when running retros on one of my teams (iOS). Originally did it as a joke a couple of months ago but ended up sticking with it since it is lightning fast and works just as well as any modern tool for that purpose.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago
  I keep hoping that someone creates something akin to WINE for Classic Mac apps, or at least something analogous to the Classic mode that shipped with OS X from versions 10.0 through 10.5. Sheepshaver and qemu-ppc are nice but a WINE-like or Classic-like would really push things to the next level for making frequent use of old Mac apps practical.
  - fzzzy 4y ago
    It does exist. Unfortunately it's not open source. https://mace.software/ https://mace.software/
mynameisash 4y ago
As a kid born in the early 80s that grew up on Macintosh, I used Claris a lot at home and at school. One of my earliest "ah-ha!" moments was when my dad taught me about copy-paste in a word processor. That you could "copy" some text and just "paste" it anywhere without having to re-type it was an amazing capability. ClarisWorks, Aldus SuperPaint, Rapmaster[0], Zippy[1], and so many more, were fixtures of my geeky youth. [0] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2000-rapmaster https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2000-rapmaster [1] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/13387-zippy https://www.macintoshrepository.org/13387-zippy

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ClarisWorks was an amazingly easy way to ween tech illiterate people into a tech workspace. I’ve seen a required tech course for education majors take people w

by csa 4y ago

jonpurdy 4y ago
As a TPM, I actually use ClarisWorks 4.0 (in SheepShaver) in drawing mode when running retros on one of my teams (iOS). Originally did it as a joke a couple of months ago but ended up sticking with it since it is lightning fast and works just as well as any modern tool for that purpose.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago
  I keep hoping that someone creates something akin to WINE for Classic Mac apps, or at least something analogous to the Classic mode that shipped with OS X from versions 10.0 through 10.5. Sheepshaver and qemu-ppc are nice but a WINE-like or Classic-like would really push things to the next level for making frequent use of old Mac apps practical.
  - fzzzy 4y ago
    It does exist. Unfortunately it's not open source. https://mace.software/ https://mace.software/
mynameisash 4y ago
As a kid born in the early 80s that grew up on Macintosh, I used Claris a lot at home and at school. One of my earliest "ah-ha!" moments was when my dad taught me about copy-paste in a word processor. That you could "copy" some text and just "paste" it anywhere without having to re-type it was an amazing capability. ClarisWorks, Aldus SuperPaint, Rapmaster[0], Zippy[1], and so many more, were fixtures of my geeky youth. [0] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2000-rapmaster https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2000-rapmaster [1] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/13387-zippy https://www.macintoshrepository.org/13387-zippy