In article <47af6bae$0$881$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>, Pieter Cramwinckel <pcramwinckel@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Helen Castle schreef: > > Having never owned a Mac I have never paid attention to the posts about > > programs for a Mac > > > > Now a relative has a Mac and is looking for free software > > > > Any good free ones out there? He only wants to read my .ged files > > > > He is looking into a Windows emulation for running Legacy but it may be > > beyond him > > > try this : > > Macintosh Genealogy Programs > NAME VERSION CURRENT AS OF > > GEDitCOM 3.60 11-17-2003 > > Gene 4.3.4 04-29-2001 > > MacFamilyTree 3.6.5 10-04-2003 > > Personal Ancestral File 2.31 03-13-1996 > > Reunion 8.05 12-05-2003 > > and more info is here : > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mac/faq.html The FAQ is well out of date. As an example Reunion is now version 9.06 and was last updated in November 2007.

"Gerry" <everyday@sunrise.net> wrote in message news:everyday-DA7F39.14082410022008@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net... > > The FAQ is well out of date. As an example Reunion is now version 9.06 > and was last updated in November 2007. And Gene is a Classic application, no longer supported on newer macs. (But it's a wonderful program! I suppose there are OS 9 emulators out there some place.)

In article <6QEsj.2586$YL3.1943@trndny05>, OughtFour <luster@rnospam.com> wrote: > >"Gerry" <everyday@sunrise.net> wrote in message >news:everyday-DA7F39.14082410022008@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net... >> >> The FAQ is well out of date. As an example Reunion is now version 9.06 >> and was last updated in November 2007. > >And Gene is a Classic application, no longer supported on newer macs. (But >it's a wonderful program! I suppose there are OS 9 emulators out there some >place.) Any version of OS X through 10.4 can launch classic applications. Starting with 10.5 (current release), you lose that capability. (I'm setting up a 10.4-bootable partition on my system to preserve my 1980s legacy stuff while I continue to move it to more recent formats and softwares. I still miss WingZ, which was lost in the 68000 -> powermac transition in ?8.) -- Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/ Science faqs and amateur activities notes and links. Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences