AppleWorks

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AppleWorks
Basic data

developer Bob Hearn, Scott Haldaway
Publishing year 1985
Current  version Mac OS X : 6.2.9
Mac OS  (8.1-9.2.2): 6.2.8
Windows  (2000 or later ): 6.2.2
(January 14, 2004)
operating system Mac OS X , Mac OS , Microsoft Windows
programming language Unknown value
category Office package
License proprietary
www.apple.com/appleworks

AppleWorks was an integrated program package from the US company Apple . It contained various office applications, including a. a word processor , a spreadsheet , a database , a drawing, painting and presentation module and a communication module. AppleWorks was replaced in 2007 by the iWork program package .

history

A program package was originally launched under this name for the Apple II in 1984 . It consisted of a word processor and a spreadsheet that replaced Visicalc . The presentation was character-oriented. Different providers, u. a. Beagle Bros Inc. (TimeOut-Module) and PinPoint Software, offered extensions with which Appleworks could be automated.

With the introduction of the Apple IIgs , StyleWare developed an integrated solution with the graphic user interface GS Works, which included word processing, spreadsheets, a simple painting program and communication tool. GS Works was bought by Claris and renamed AppleWorks GS. The inadequate code base is said to have been the main reason that, with the exception of a single error correction, there was never a subsequent version. In terms of functionality, AppleWorks GS did not come close to the character-oriented previous version, which was henceforth sold under the name AppleWorks Classic. With the disappearance of the Apple II family, the name for the Macintosh family finally became free again. Although Apple did not have large-scale advertising for AppleWorks Classic or AppleWorks GS, the product line was one of the best-selling software of the 80s.

AppleWorks for the Mac was originally called ClarisWorks (after the then Apple subsidiary Claris ). The first version for the Macintosh appeared in the fall of 1991. In the following years several versions came out, some also for Microsoft Windows , but without the communication module. After Claris was dissolved in early 1998, Apple took over the program and changed the name to AppleWorks. Version 6.0 came out in March 2000, the last minor update (version 6.2.9 in the version for Mac OS X ) in autumn 2003.

At a time when the Internet was not very widespread, the communication module was used to access servers via modem or directly via serial interfaces. Different file transfer modes (XModem, ZModem) and terminal emulations were available. The VT100 emulation in particular showed loyalty to the original (character-oriented graphics). Because the serial interfaces are no longer available on the newer Macs, the communication module has been omitted from version 6.

On January 11, 2005, Apple introduced the iWork office suite , which includes the Keynote presentation program and a new word processing program called Pages . Since iWork '08, which was released in August 2007, the Numbers spreadsheet has been included. With the introduction of iWork '08, Apple informed its resellers that AppleWorks had now reached the "End of Life" status and was no longer being sold. The AppleWorks website was closed with reference to the successor iWork '09. AppleWorks was delivered as standard with consumer Macs ( Mac mini , iBook , iMac ) until the changeover from Mac OS X to Intel processors in 2006 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Apple cans AppleWorks  - Message from Macworld about the end of AppleWorks