bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (11/02/90)
Is there a patch to make MacWrite 4.5 work on a Macintosh II (IIsi in
particular)?
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Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
"Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) (11/05/90)
Paul Dubois (bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)) wrote > Is there a patch to make MacWrite 4.5 work on a Macintosh II (IIsi in > particular)? Yes there is. It's called MacWrite 4.6, dated July 7, 1987. Version 4.5 will crash on any 68020 or 030 machine for the same reason that the old Macintalk does - it uses some slight code modification techniques to work. Such programs, big no-nos, come to grief with the 68020 and 030 processor instruction cache. I have no idea where you can get 4.6 from. cheers christian legg
omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) (11/05/90)
In article <1770@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> legg@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) writes: >Paul Dubois (bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)) wrote > >> Is there a patch to make MacWrite 4.5 work on a Macintosh II (IIsi in >> particular)? > > Yes there is. It's called MacWrite 4.6, dated July 7, 1987. Actually, you probably need MacWrite II. Not sure about 4.6, but MacWrite 5.0 is incompatible with System 6.0.4 and newer. When you use the spell checker, it reportedly sends your document into oblivion one word at a time. So, since you gotta use System 6.0.7 on your Mac IIsi, you probably need to upgrade to MacWrite II. Claris will probably charge you for that. -John --- John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center / 494-1787