TIL AppleWorks - formerly ClarisWorks - survived into the PPC era, and died gracefully at Snow Leopard. i last used it as clarisworks on a junior high school computing lab LC II
i sure miss this era of apple's box art visual design.. late 90s and early 2000s... while not skeuomorphism, it shared the same foundations in a care for elegant textures and shapes found in real-world objects.
@vga256 I vividly remember winning a copy of clarisworks for windows 95 at a school raffle circa 1999. I wonder if that disc is still around somewhere in the house...
@vga256 The carbon versions were not great, they seemed like a quick and dirty port made to just barely run on OS X, the UI didn't really fit OS X paradigms, and IIRC they were quite unstable. But they existed!
I do miss Claris software a lot, though. I still think of "Simply powerful software" as a desired goal.
@vga256 I love these old Apple box designs (even though I wasn't alive when this version of AppleWorks came out in 2000).
Too bad boxed software went the way of the App Store and Internet downloads years ago. Boxed software visual design was the coolest back in the 90s and 2000s in my opinion!
@billgoats@vga256 I think Carbon is the reason it's a weird blend; I believe I saw them demo AppleWorks as a test case for "see how this lets us update a Classic app to run under OS X"
@CodingItWrong@billgoats interesting. i bought my first personally owned mac in 03, and I came across quite a few older "carbonized" apps at that point. i saw them quickly disappear over the next few years, and always wondered why. interesting article!
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