krye
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My Dad gave me 318 vintage 800K floppy disks. He figured he was never going to look at the contents of them again. (Considering he doesn’t have an old Mac that can ready them anymore.) Since I’m such a huge collector of all things vintage Apple, and I have a good 20 vintage Macs, he figured I could use them.
I got them in the mail and started going through them. 90% of it is old work stuff. My Dad works for an electronics company and he used to do all the tech pubs stuff nack in the 80s/90s. He designed all their product packaging, brochures, advertising, owner’s manuals, etc. He did it all in MacPaint, MacDraw, MacDraft, and Ready,Set,Go!
I got a real kick out of seeing some of his creations from the mid 80s. The MacPaint files were easy enough to convert to .jpegs. I opened all the MacDraw file in Mini vMac and resaved them as PICTs. I then opened the PICTs in GraphicsConverter and resaved them as jpgs. MacWrite files were easy too. I just added “.txt” to the end of them and opened them in TextEdit.
I sent the 1500 files to my Dad and he was thrilled to see them again. Not all of it was work stuff, some of it was personal stuff too.
As far as the Ready,Set,Go! files, those are proving to be more of a challenge. My Dad was a beta tester for RSG. They sent him version 2 to try out. He loved it. A lot of the stuff he did was with RSG 2. When RSG 3 came out, they sent him a copy. He started using that. Same with version 4. The problem is, RSG hasn’t been updated in years. The last version to be released was version 7. The developer is still charging $200 for it, even though I think they’ve abandoned development on it. It doesn’t run on 10.7-10.8. I downloaded the demo and have it running on my Mac Mini with OS X 10.5. Print and Save is disabled. It can open older files, but only version 4-6. Most of My Dad’s files are version 2, some 3, and some 4. He has RSG 4, but it doesn’t open the RSG 2 files.
What I had to do was, open all 318 files one at a time in RSG 3 and re-save them as RSG v3 files. I then had to re-open those 318 files one at a time again in version 4 and resave the RSG v3 files as RSG v4 files. Now all 318 files are version 4 and can be opened with the RSG 7.7 demo. It took me a good 6 hours straight to resave all 318 files from v2 to v3 to v4.
The problem is, that seems to be as far as I can go. I was hoping to be able to just print them to .pdf and send them to my Dad as is. Or maybe save them as .jpgs. But the developer disabled save and print in the demo. Software nowadays is so cheap. Most decent apps like this are $30-40 bucks at most. Apple charges $20 for Numbers or Pages. Pixelmator is $30. Even RapidWeaver 5 that I consider expensive is $80. I’m not cheap, and I’ve spend a ton of money over the years on software. I agree, developers should be paid for their hard work, but it’s crazy that their charging $200 for an app that hasn’t been updated in years and won’t run on OS 10.6-10.8.
Printing and saving in the RSG 7.7 demo can be unlocked with a serial # but its’ just crazy that they want $200. I’m not looking to use the software to create files. I just want to convert these 300 files to .jpgs or .pdfs and then uninstall it. I'll probably use the app for 4 or 5 hours and then be done with it.
Anyone have any suggestions to convert these files to pdf/jpg? Do you think if I pleaded my case to the developer, they’d throw me a serial #? Is that crazy?
As far as the Ready,Set,Go! files, those are proving to be more of a challenge. My Dad was a beta tester for RSG. They sent him version 2 to try out. He loved it. A lot of the stuff he did was with RSG 2. When RSG 3 came out, they sent him a copy. He started using that. Same with version 4. The problem is, RSG hasn’t been updated in years. The last version to be released was version 7. The developer is still charging $200 for it, even though I think they’ve abandoned development on it. It doesn’t run on 10.7-10.8. I downloaded the demo and have it running on my Mac Mini with OS X 10.5. Print and Save is disabled. It can open older files, but only version 4-6. Most of My Dad’s files are version 2, some 3, and some 4. He has RSG 4, but it doesn’t open the RSG 2 files.
What I had to do was, open all 318 files one at a time in RSG 3 and re-save them as RSG v3 files. I then had to re-open those 318 files one at a time again in version 4 and resave the RSG v3 files as RSG v4 files. Now all 318 files are version 4 and can be opened with the RSG 7.7 demo. It took me a good 6 hours straight to resave all 318 files from v2 to v3 to v4.
The problem is, that seems to be as far as I can go. I was hoping to be able to just print them to .pdf and send them to my Dad as is. Or maybe save them as .jpgs. But the developer disabled save and print in the demo. Software nowadays is so cheap. Most decent apps like this are $30-40 bucks at most. Apple charges $20 for Numbers or Pages. Pixelmator is $30. Even RapidWeaver 5 that I consider expensive is $80. I’m not cheap, and I’ve spend a ton of money over the years on software. I agree, developers should be paid for their hard work, but it’s crazy that their charging $200 for an app that hasn’t been updated in years and won’t run on OS 10.6-10.8.
Printing and saving in the RSG 7.7 demo can be unlocked with a serial # but its’ just crazy that they want $200. I’m not looking to use the software to create files. I just want to convert these 300 files to .jpgs or .pdfs and then uninstall it. I'll probably use the app for 4 or 5 hours and then be done with it.
Anyone have any suggestions to convert these files to pdf/jpg? Do you think if I pleaded my case to the developer, they’d throw me a serial #? If they're even still answering email. Is that crazy?
I got them in the mail and started going through them. 90% of it is old work stuff. My Dad works for an electronics company and he used to do all the tech pubs stuff nack in the 80s/90s. He designed all their product packaging, brochures, advertising, owner’s manuals, etc. He did it all in MacPaint, MacDraw, MacDraft, and Ready,Set,Go!
I got a real kick out of seeing some of his creations from the mid 80s. The MacPaint files were easy enough to convert to .jpegs. I opened all the MacDraw file in Mini vMac and resaved them as PICTs. I then opened the PICTs in GraphicsConverter and resaved them as jpgs. MacWrite files were easy too. I just added “.txt” to the end of them and opened them in TextEdit.
I sent the 1500 files to my Dad and he was thrilled to see them again. Not all of it was work stuff, some of it was personal stuff too.
As far as the Ready,Set,Go! files, those are proving to be more of a challenge. My Dad was a beta tester for RSG. They sent him version 2 to try out. He loved it. A lot of the stuff he did was with RSG 2. When RSG 3 came out, they sent him a copy. He started using that. Same with version 4. The problem is, RSG hasn’t been updated in years. The last version to be released was version 7. The developer is still charging $200 for it, even though I think they’ve abandoned development on it. It doesn’t run on 10.7-10.8. I downloaded the demo and have it running on my Mac Mini with OS X 10.5. Print and Save is disabled. It can open older files, but only version 4-6. Most of My Dad’s files are version 2, some 3, and some 4. He has RSG 4, but it doesn’t open the RSG 2 files.
What I had to do was, open all 318 files one at a time in RSG 3 and re-save them as RSG v3 files. I then had to re-open those 318 files one at a time again in version 4 and resave the RSG v3 files as RSG v4 files. Now all 318 files are version 4 and can be opened with the RSG 7.7 demo. It took me a good 6 hours straight to resave all 318 files from v2 to v3 to v4.
The problem is, that seems to be as far as I can go. I was hoping to be able to just print them to .pdf and send them to my Dad as is. Or maybe save them as .jpgs. But the developer disabled save and print in the demo. Software nowadays is so cheap. Most decent apps like this are $30-40 bucks at most. Apple charges $20 for Numbers or Pages. Pixelmator is $30. Even RapidWeaver 5 that I consider expensive is $80. I’m not cheap, and I’ve spend a ton of money over the years on software. I agree, developers should be paid for their hard work, but it’s crazy that their charging $200 for an app that hasn’t been updated in years and won’t run on OS 10.6-10.8.
Printing and saving in the RSG 7.7 demo can be unlocked with a serial # but its’ just crazy that they want $200. I’m not looking to use the software to create files. I just want to convert these 300 files to .jpgs or .pdfs and then uninstall it. I'll probably use the app for 4 or 5 hours and then be done with it.
Anyone have any suggestions to convert these files to pdf/jpg? Do you think if I pleaded my case to the developer, they’d throw me a serial #? Is that crazy?
As far as the Ready,Set,Go! files, those are proving to be more of a challenge. My Dad was a beta tester for RSG. They sent him version 2 to try out. He loved it. A lot of the stuff he did was with RSG 2. When RSG 3 came out, they sent him a copy. He started using that. Same with version 4. The problem is, RSG hasn’t been updated in years. The last version to be released was version 7. The developer is still charging $200 for it, even though I think they’ve abandoned development on it. It doesn’t run on 10.7-10.8. I downloaded the demo and have it running on my Mac Mini with OS X 10.5. Print and Save is disabled. It can open older files, but only version 4-6. Most of My Dad’s files are version 2, some 3, and some 4. He has RSG 4, but it doesn’t open the RSG 2 files.
What I had to do was, open all 318 files one at a time in RSG 3 and re-save them as RSG v3 files. I then had to re-open those 318 files one at a time again in version 4 and resave the RSG v3 files as RSG v4 files. Now all 318 files are version 4 and can be opened with the RSG 7.7 demo. It took me a good 6 hours straight to resave all 318 files from v2 to v3 to v4.
The problem is, that seems to be as far as I can go. I was hoping to be able to just print them to .pdf and send them to my Dad as is. Or maybe save them as .jpgs. But the developer disabled save and print in the demo. Software nowadays is so cheap. Most decent apps like this are $30-40 bucks at most. Apple charges $20 for Numbers or Pages. Pixelmator is $30. Even RapidWeaver 5 that I consider expensive is $80. I’m not cheap, and I’ve spend a ton of money over the years on software. I agree, developers should be paid for their hard work, but it’s crazy that their charging $200 for an app that hasn’t been updated in years and won’t run on OS 10.6-10.8.
Printing and saving in the RSG 7.7 demo can be unlocked with a serial # but its’ just crazy that they want $200. I’m not looking to use the software to create files. I just want to convert these 300 files to .jpgs or .pdfs and then uninstall it. I'll probably use the app for 4 or 5 hours and then be done with it.
Anyone have any suggestions to convert these files to pdf/jpg? Do you think if I pleaded my case to the developer, they’d throw me a serial #? If they're even still answering email. Is that crazy?
