Printshop Presswriter

Richard Tipple · Post by **Richard Tipple** » 14 Dec 2015 9:50 am

There is an old program I used called ,The Printshop Presswriter, but Windows 7, says it wont work on Windows 7, wont download from the CD.
Is it gone forever ?

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 14 Dec 2015 10:02 am

The only details I can find are that the last version, 1.5, was released in 2008, making it compatible with Windows XP. If you can find that version you may be able to install it in XP (w/SP1) Compatibility Mode.

There is no more current version.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 14 Dec 2015 10:06 am

Probably so. I was the lead programmer on that program at Broderbund. It was designed for Windows 95. My wonderful old aunt still uses it to make her poetry books, but her computer is from that era, too.

I thought we did a pretty good job on PressWriter. I still have a copy on my bookshelf, but I'm a Mac guy now.

Richard Tipple · Post by **Richard Tipple** » 14 Dec 2015 10:16 am

bOb,I remember years ago you said you were the lead programmer with this software & designed the Pic of the Steel, that came with it.
I used the Presswriter till I almost wore it out,,it was a great program

Sad that todays operating systems wont load it up

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 14 Dec 2015 10:29 am

The pedal steel graphic that came with PressWriter was made by a graphic artist who photographed my Sierra Olympic. It is sad that computer programs go obsolete so quickly. That's one of the things that disillusioned me about the industry. It's been 6 years since I retired, and very little of the code I wrote over my 25 year software career is still in use.

There is a still little bit of my code in this forum, though. Maybe that's part of why I'm so reluctant to upgrade the forum software.