What is MacLinkPlus Deluxe 12?

MacLink Plus Deluxe is a file-translation utility that provides easy, almost painless translation between a large number of Mac and PC file formats. If you often need to open WordStar 6 files or similarly obscure formats, MacLink Plus Deluxe is a crucial addition to your software library.

Unfortunately, version 12 (called Deluxe) isn’t much of an upgrade from 11. The only additional translators are for AppleWorks 6, WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, and Lotus 1-2-3 Millennium. Plus, DataViz removed translators for the original MacWrite, WordPerfect 4.2, and HTML. And while the word-processing program Nisus Writer has gone through two major updates, MacLink Plus Deluxe still translates files into Nisus 4 format. Support for 680X0 Macs is a thing of the past, and some oddities of version 11 remain — for example, when we translated a Word 2001 file with a WordArt picture into AppleWorks 6, the picture simply vanished.

If you’re in a situation where you work with a lot of files from other formats and system types, MacLink Plus Deluxe is an indispensable piece of software. If you use version 11, however, and don't need one of the Deluxe version’s few new programs, you can probably skip this upgrade.

Shuchat-Marx, Mark D. (February 2001). MacLink Plus Deluxe. MacAddict. (pg. 62).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.1

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver