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First post, by uridium

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Greetings!

Short version:

Looking for a cracked Galaxy 3.0 word processor or some way to purchase a new license.

Longer version:

My old man used to get me to type all of his reports for his small business through out my teen years. It was one of my jobs. He purchased a version of Galaxy back in the late 80's or 90's and we used it heavily. Many many hundreds of hours in front of the thing over about a decade. Lately I've been using shareware Galaxy again and enjoying it on my XT. I'd love to either do the right thing and buy a copy or if that's not possible get a cracked version. I'm enjoying my manuals and Lotus-1-2-3 4.0 again also. 😀

I "think" the full version of Galaxy allows for larger documents via EMS memory. The shareware one we used for a while used to crap out at about 40-50 pages. You'd save, there'd be no error message but the file was truncated at about 64kb (about 1 segment). My XT has 2mb EMS card which is pretty nifty.

Advice? I really have a pretty huge affection for this thing given the number of years of my life spent with it.

Thanks.
Al.

Reply 1 of 5, by uridium

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*Bump*

Still wish I could buy a copy of this again.

Reply 2 of 5, by gerry

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i really think it's going to be difficult to track it down now, i had to look it up.

you'd need to find someone who bought it or check collections & cover disks in case it was ever freely released as full version

for anyone interested: https://technicallywewrite.com/2023/08/20/galaxy
and in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bOxx8HxJ4U

Reply 3 of 5, by elszgensa

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This archive has not only version 2.4 but also 3.01. It's still only the shareware version, but it might take care of that truncated files issue (haven't checked).

Heads up, if you decide to stick with the shareware release then you might run into a bug where if you run it ~32k (INT16_MAX) times then the eval counter will wrap around and cause the program to hang on shutdown. Delete the .ini to start fresh.

Reply 4 of 5, by BloodyCactus

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i have somewhere at home several versions, since as a kid most of my papers were written in it. i can tell you what versions I have tonight. (tho i think all shareware versions)

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Reply 5 of 5, by BloodyCactus

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all I had was shareware 3 🙁 I think i did all my stuff in v2... i was sure i had more..

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