NikKelly opened this issue on Jan 06, 2018 ยท 5 posts
NikKelly posted Sat, 06 January 2018 at 3:46 PM
Hi ! I've been asked to help an 'old' Mac user (OS 9) running P4...
Is there a legitimate source for the classic MaConvertor, to allow import of 'Win' format freebies ??
Sadly, my 'deep search' has drawn a blank.
Snags are the 'Soft-Rabbit' site is gone, the German mirror is down, the WayBack cache is blocked by 'no robots' flag.
A thought: Was MaConvertor functionality bundled with any later Poser version that would still run under OS 9 and be recent enough to register ?? I can find no documentation on cross-platform compatibility; it is as if the 'other' format doesn't exist beyond the #/@ icons at check-out stage...
After a decade out from Poser, I'm still getting to grips with the labyrinthine P11Pro on my Win'10 CAD workstation-- 8-core AMD, 32 GB, twin graphics cards driving three wide-screen displays. I've managed to salvage much P3 & P4 content from my archives, have loaded my never-run P7's content plus the P5~6~7 'supplementary' packs...
Added : Sorry, I don't know why the paragraph in the middle is bold & zoomed. I cannot fix format... Ha ! I took out my break-line of hyphens !!
NikKelly posted Mon, 08 January 2018 at 2:15 PM
IIRC, MaConverter was 'Shareware', so no issues with intact re-distribution.
Please, if any-one has a copy, could they check the 'ReadMe', to be sure, to be sure ??
NikKelly posted Fri, 12 January 2018 at 8:01 PM
If any-one has a copy of the classic MaConverter, could they please check the 'ReadMe', to be sure it is 'Shareware', so no issues with intact re-distribution. ??
ssgbryan posted Mon, 15 January 2018 at 8:43 PM
I doubt anyone still has it. No one has been able to run the software for almost 2 decades. The software was never cross platform - it converted Poser 3 content to something Poser 4 could read.
At some point, you have to let go of old tech.
scouter posted Fri, 19 January 2018 at 12:17 PM
Some of us still like old tech and have the Mac's to run it on, and it converted stuff that was used in Poser 4 on Windows to stuff that could be used in Poser 4 on the Mac. as not everyone packaged stuff to run on both platforms.