Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 18, 2011, 12:15:52 PM
Post by: Highmac on January 19, 2011, 02:01:29 AM
Just checked and realised I have v1.08 demo on the G5 "created 12/05/2007" - that's May 12
- came off a MacFormat cover disc IIRC. Just haven't needed to use it 
It can still be downloaded and used unregistered - with limitations, of course, but you can still save - so anyone interested can have a look around it for free
Post by: eric j on January 20, 2011, 08:30:51 AM
Calamus is coded by a German team - highly efficiently - because the Atari possessed a very small memory and a - by current standards - very slow CPU.
Nevertheless it functioned spectacularly well- I managed to produce a lot of quite ambitious stuff.
There exists a bunch of people who continue to use it to this day. The authors still issue updates.
I have a lot of respect for German code-writers. I have also a German-produced equivalent to MS Word - "Papyrus". It is a little less feature-rich but employs much less memory (coded efficiently). Word, for me, is too bloated anyway.
Ther exists an emulator enabling Calamus to run on a PPC mac. Personally I never managed to get it running well but others did.
I have also purchased iCalamus, produced by the same peole. Updates are issued from time to time. It's interesting to hear that it's now made in Norway, I always assumed that it continued to come from Germany.
My needs have changed. I do not do much DTP these days so have used iCalamus relatively infrequently. It certainly does what it says on the tin. IMHO it is a very cost-effective tool.
eric j