[BBEdit] Seeking for last version with PowerPC support and Tiger support

[Douglas Mencken]

Can you please point me to location where I can download a version of
BBEdit which would run on my hardware (Power Mac, OS X Tiger).
Are payments still accepted for previous versions?
Also, what happened to BBEdit Lite project? (It was once free editor,
a subset of BBEdit w/o language coloring.)

[Christopher Stone]

On Sep 10, 2011, at 06:46, Douglas Mencken wrote:
> Also, what happened to BBEdit Lite project? (It was once free editor, a subset of BBEdit w/o language coloring.)

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Hey Douglas,

BBEdit Lite was transformed to TextWrangler some while ago. TextWrangler is still free.

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

--
Best Regards,
Chris

[Douglas Mencken]

> BBEdit Lite was transformed to TextWrangler some while ago.  TextWrangler is still free.
> http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

Oh, thanks! At least, it even works on PowerPC!
What about other questions? About how to download/buy PPC-compatible
BBEdit?

[ego...@gmail.com]

The latest PPC version was 9.6.3 which I know works on Leopard, not
sure about latest to work on Tiger.

Suggest you contact Bare Bones Sales & Customer Support:
http://www.barebones.com/contact/sales.html

Regards,
Ed Goham

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 04:46 a -0700 09/10/2011, Douglas Mencken didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:

>Can you please point me to location where I can download a version of
>BBEdit which would run on my hardware (Power Mac, OS X Tiger).

BBEdit Release Notes Archive
<http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/archived_notes.html>

BBEdit 9.3.1 Release Notes
<http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/arch_bbedit931.html>

BBEdit 9.3.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later
(10.4.11, 10.5.8, 10.6.7 or later recommended).

This version is a Universal application: it runs
natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs.

I don't see a download for it, though.

>Are payments still accepted for previous versions?

I've been wondering this too, since I've got 6.5 and would like to
upgrade (I'm also on Tiger). And wondering what the price would be,
especially since v10 is now cheaper.

-boo

[Ron Catterall]

I believe 9.3.1 was the last version to run on 10.4.11 (and 9.6 required
10.5)

On 9/11/11 11:59 AM, ego...@gmail.com wrote:
> The latest PPC version was 9.6.3 which I know works on Leopard, not
> sure about latest to work on Tiger.
>

> Suggest you contact Bare Bones Sales& Customer Support:

> http://www.barebones.com/contact/sales.html
>
> Regards,
> Ed Goham
>
> On Sep 10, 7:46 am, Douglas Mencken<dougmenc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can you please point me to location where I can download a version of
>> BBEdit which would run on my hardware (Power Mac, OS X Tiger).
>> Are payments still accepted for previous versions?
>> Also, what happened to BBEdit Lite project? (It was once free editor,
>> a subset of BBEdit w/o language coloring.)
>

--
Ron Catterall Ph.D. D.Sc.
r...@catterall.net
http://catterall.net

[Ron Catterall]

Just checked, 9.3.1 also runs on PPC at 10.4.11

[Douglas Mencken]

I suppose I can post the reply from sales support to this public list.
The answer was *no*:

---- quote begins ----
[...] BBEdit 10.0 (the latest version) requires Mac OS X 10.6 or
later, and we regret that old versions of the software are no longer
available for purchase.

I'm sorry we can't be of assistance with this specific request [...]
---- quote ends ----

Well, we're stuck with TextWrangler.
Poor poor Bare Bones ;)

[Ron Catterall]

Doug Mencken and Bare Bones
Subject to Bare Bones licensing approval, charging or what ever, I can
supply a copy of BBedit 9.3.1.dmg (a paid version), what Bare Bones
would like to do about the registration code I don't know, which I run
on a Mac PPC with OS 10.4.11
I imagine Bare Bones could also supply this.
Bare Bones: your comment
Doug: any interest?
Ron

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[David Miers]

I know 9.6 is the last version I have running on ppc with leopard

[Douglas Mencken]

I am, of course, interested. But I'm sure that would result in 30-day
demo and goodbye.

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 09:49 a -0700 09/12/2011, Douglas Mencken didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:

>I suppose I can post the reply from sales support to this public list.

>The answer was *no*:
>
>---- quote begins ----
>[...] BBEdit 10.0 (the latest version) requires Mac OS X 10.6 or
>later, and we regret that old versions of the software are no longer
>available for purchase.
>
>I'm sorry we can't be of assistance with this specific request [...]
>---- quote ends ----

Well that really sucks. Evidently BareBones would rather we run 6.5
than 9.3, which makes no sense at all.

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 10:30 a -0700 09/12/2011, Douglas Mencken didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:

>I am, of course, interested. But I'm sure that would result in 30-day
>demo and goodbye.

To Ron: Ditto what Doug said.

It's arbitrary and nonsensical policies like BareBones' which drive
me to seek pirated sofware when I would rather purchase.

[Fletcher Sandbeck]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> Well that really sucks. Evidently BareBones would rather we run 6.5 than 9.3, which makes no sense at all.

I use TextWrangler on the legacy hardware around here. I get the latest version which we can run on PowerPC machines or machines that we can't upgrade for whatever reason, mostly servers.

<http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/updates.html>

TextWrangler is a great swiss army knife tool for making changes on these machines and then BBEdit does the heavy lifting on development machines.

[fletcher]

[Rich Siegel]

On Monday, September 12, 2011, Walter Ian Kaye
<bood...@gmail.com> wrote:

>It's arbitrary and nonsensical policies like BareBones' which
>drive me to seek pirated sofware when I would rather purchase.

If you bother to reply to this at all, please do so off list.
This thread has ceased to be useful or informative.

Thank you,

R.
--
Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
<sie...@barebones.com> <http://www.barebones.com/>

Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.