7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
2:50 p.m.
On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 7 December 2011 14:00, David Riley <fraveydank
at gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, I have plenty of perfectly functional classic Macs, too (and if you run Netatalk on a
server, you can talk to everything from a brand-new machine all the way down to an SE with
an Ethernet card). The real reason I haven't used it since long before 68k emulation
bit the dust is because file interchange is a huge pain. I remember hearing something
about a 5.1 plugin to save/read Word 97+ files, though...
- Dave
Man, I wish I could still run Word 5.1 for Mac on modern machines. It's easily the
best version they ever made, and possibly the best word processor for the Mac.
Totally agree.
The closest you'll get, if you like the late-era MacOS experience, is
9.04 running under SheepShaver.
If you want the classic Classic, you could run 6.0.8 under Basilisk or
vMac or the like. My copy of Word 5.1 runs happily under both - but
host integration is fairly poor.