[Ti] Really, really old Mac OS 1 to 8 work - need translator [Off List]

[Matt Covey]

You could run MacWrite/etc in Mini vMac - a miniature Macintosh emulator (http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/) and then just save the files to RTF/text/etc or copy and paste into AppleWorks/etc.

Also, I still run WriteNow under Classic on 10.4.3

++matt


>I came across some really old Word Processing files that were written between 1984 and 1990. Some were written in MacWrite versions 1 to 5, some in MacWrite Pro and the rest were (I am pretty sure) written in Write Now (probably 2.2 to 4.0). There are a few PageMaker files as well, but I have pretty well given up on those.
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>Does anyone know if a converter exists that will translate these files into an OS X Word Processor format (such as MS Word, Pages or even AppleWorks). None of these have any translators installed that will recognize these files in any way (they have a 'clipping' icon ascribed to them and will not open in anything). All text editors display them as gibberish.
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>I almost freaked out when I found these files backed up on floppies. I thought they had long ago been lost forever and they represent a lot of work from years ago.
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