Classic Mac (was: Amiga video to component video or VGA?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Sep 2009

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 "Zane H. Healy" wrote:

 Once I switch to the Mac Pro I'll have to decide if I setup a Classic
 Mac to run a couple apps (there is no replacement for me for
 ClarisDraw aka MacDraw), or if I run them under an emulator).  I've
 stayed at 10.4.11 so I can continue to run Classic. 
 I'm actually still running native Classic for these sorts of  
 reasons. I must
 try out Cameron's Classilla for an improved browser, but I've been  
 meaning to
 ask here about ClarisDraw/MacDraw for awhile.

 I have hundreds of pages of reverse-engineered schematics of old  
 equipment,
 drawn in ClarisWorks. It's my own 'symbol library' so I don't expect  
 to be able
 to convert them easily to some common CAD schematic capture, but  
 does anyone
 know of a conversion or upgrade path to pull these into the future (or
 present), besides printing and scanning them? 
If you have a machine which still runs ClarisWorks, you should be able  
to save this data in MacDraw II format which MacDraft 5.5 can read and  
save. Possibly 5.6 too, but not 6.0, though that isn't released yet.  
There was just too much code to maintain for reading old files, and  
the alternative of using 5.5 (and 4.0 for REALLY old files) is still  
there if you can get access to a PPC/68k Mac. If you have used blends  
they won't come through, but schematics should be fine. From MacDraft  
you can save them as PDFs, which Illustrator will read if you can  
stand the price and the user interface.

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 Alternatively, is the file format definition out there in public, so  
 I might
 write a conversion program some day? 