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Offline Xairbusdriver

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« on: January 18, 2011, 12:15:52 PM »
Made in Norway, so it shouldn't over heat your Mac?! Groaner.gif
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2011, 02:01:29 AM »
iRemember Calamus from the version I had for the Atari ST c1990. Good program which, at that time, would do things QXP couldn't (not that I had either a Mac or QXP - just used QXP at work).

Just checked and realised I have v1.08 demo on the G5 "created 12/05/2007" - that's May 12 biggrin.gif - came off a MacFormat cover disc IIRC. Just haven't needed to use it  rolleyes.gif

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 thumbup.gif
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2011, 08:30:51 AM »
Like Highmac I used the original Calamus on my Atari TT 030 "workstation".
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.

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