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Macromedia FreeHand 5.0.2

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Category:	Visual Arts & Graphics Word Processing & Publishing
Year released:	1995
Author:	Altsys
Publisher:	Macromedia

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
FreeHand_5.0.x.sit_.hqx (11.48 MB)
MD5: be984ba701349d78cb65bb5337dbdaca
For System 6.x - Mac OS 8 - 8.1

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
macromedia-freehand-5.sit (8.48 MB)
MD5: f4f7c74d79f21a092891d2e1d682254f
For System 6.x - Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac II

This is the first Freehand release from Macromedia; FreeHand version 5.0 with updaters 5.0.1 and 5.0.2.

This archive contains the floppy installation version of FreeHand 5.0.x imaged back in the day. Unfortunately, I no longer have these original diskettes, but I do have the images (hence the Disk Copy 6.3.3 format). Hopefully this helps folks.

Top DL: FreeHand 5.0 installer set as Disk Copy 6 (compressed format) images in StuffIt 5.5 compatible "sit" archive enclosed in ".hqx" wrapper.
MD5 checksum & filename: be984ba701349d78cb65bb5337dbdaca *FreeHand_5.0.x.sit_.hqx
2nd DL: FreeHand 5.0 installer set (same as above) as Disk Copy 4.2 floppy disk images in StuffIt 3.6 ".sit" archive, suitable for installing to System 6 and above.
MD5 checksum & filename: f4f7c74d79f21a092891d2e1d682254f *macromedia-freehand-5.sit

Serial required: 10250-0397-4374-13083

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

Minimum requirements for 68k Macintosh:
- Macintosh: 68020 CPU
- Monitor: Any
- System Software: 6.0.7
- Unused RAM: 8 MB [*]
Minimum requirements for PPC Macintosh:
- Macintosh: PPC CPU
- Monitor: Any
- System Software: 7.1.2
- Unused RAM: 8 MB + Virtual Memory On

[*] The recommended RAM setting for FreeHand 5.0 is 8MB but with a Mac II's (Mini vMac II) memory ceiling of 8MB total RAM, this is not doable. I find that reducing the default RAM allocation for FreeHand 5.0 from 8MB to 6MB when running it in Mini vMac, is OK.

INSTALLING FREEHAND 5.0 ON SYSTEM 6
When installing on System 6, an inordinate amount of disk swapping is called for. To get around this just drag the files from each installation disk into a folder on your hard disk. Double-click the first Installer segment to begin the installation. When finished, delete the “FreeHand 5.0 Installer.x” files to get your hard disk space back.

— Tip: From enclosed "ReadMe" doc

Comments

by soudesune - 2020, November 15 - 8:27pm

Article from contemporary magazine added (MacFormat April 1995).
This issue has comics on the Mac as its theme and is worth a read if you are contemplating composing comics on old Macs.

by MikeTomTom - 2018, December 12 - 12:42am

Thanks again. The Disk Copy 6 images had been created using a Disk Copy 6 Compressed format, so were no good as a drop-in to an emulator's GUI, nor could be mounted in a System 6 environment.

As this version is still capable of running in SSW 6, I converted the images to Disk Copy 4.2 format and compressed into a StuffIt 3.6 ".sit" archive, and is now backwards compatible for System 6 and newer.

Ive added it as a 2nd DL, above.

by Duality - 2018, December 11 - 9:34am

Just when I thought we had a complete set! Thanks again.

by MikeTomTom - 2018, December 10 - 11:38pm

Thanks for this addition, blackholemac.