Looking for old versions of MacGhostView

[egrath]

Hi,

I'm looking for older versions of MacGhostView, especially versions of the 1.x and 2.x series. Unfortunately they seem to have vanished from the Internet and also archive.org hasn't archived the binaries and just the webpage from back then.

Can anyone help out?

With kind regards,
Egon

 

[Snial]

Pretty sure I have some versions from 1996-1998.

 

[Snial]

I'm looking for older versions of MacGhostView, especially versions of the 1.x and 2.x series. Unfortunately they seem to have vanished from the Internet and also archive.org hasn't archived the binaries and just the webpage from back then.

Well, I've looked on my Zip 100 disks, but wasn't able to find them. However, on the excellent MacGUI site I found downloads to MacGhostScript 1.0 and 2.5.

This should be enough to get on with!

 

[adespoton]

Macintosh Garden has versions 2.0b3, 3.2, 5.1 and 5.5.

A big thing that makes the earlier ones hard to find is that the name changed a number of times; you're looking for macgs, macgsview, macghostscript,
MacGhostScript 4 is available on the Tucows archive: https://archive.org/details/tucows_206519_Mac_GhostScript
2.0b3 and 5.5 are also available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070627050533/http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/index.htm
- and as that's a mirror, there's a high likelihood that archive.org or someone else has a web-based archive of the original Aladdin FTP server.

Here's the page I used to download it from in the 1990s: https://web.archive.org/web/19971011184743/http://www.glyphic.com/free/macgs.html -- the links are all FTP, so won't work, but it does appear archive.org has some actual archives of the wisc.edu FTP site, so some persistent digging might turn up older versions.

It's also possible I still have older versions kicking around, but years ago I merged all the contents of my CDs that had archived stuff like this, and threw out a bunch of versions of various apps, keeping only the "best" versions.