Editing AppleWorks (section)

=== AppleWorks GS (Apple IIGS, 1988–1996) ===
Observers had expected AppleWorks 2.0 to have a Macintosh-like mouse-driven graphical user interface, but ''inCider'' reported before its release that such a revision had been delayed because of "problems between Apple and [Lissner]".{{r|incider198609}} It was nonetheless very popular among IIGS owners; in December 1987 ''Compute!'s Apple Applications'' reported that "the hottest product on the Apple IIGS is ''AppleWorks''. No mouse interface, no color, no graphics. Just ''AppleWorks'' from the IIe and IIc world".{{r|caa198712}} The magazine wondered in an editorial, "''AppleWorks'', Where Are You?", stating that a IIGS version of AppleWorks or another AppleWorks-like integrated suite "could galvanize the machine's sales" and warned that otherwise "the IIGS may well languish".<ref name="keizer198712">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/COMPUTEs_Apple_Applications_Vol._5_No._2_Issue_6_1987-12_COMPUTE_Publications_US#page/n5/mode/2up | title=Editor's Notes | work=Compute!'s Apple Applications | date=December 1987 | access-date=18 August 2014 | author=Keizer, Gregg | pages=4–5}}</ref>

In 1988, Claris acquired an integrated package called GS Works from StyleWare and renamed it AppleWorks GS, bringing the AppleWorks brand to the 16-bit [[Apple IIGS]], though no code from the 8-bit Apple II version is used. In addition to the word processing, database, and spreadsheet functions, AppleWorks GS also includes telecommunications, page layout and graphics modules. Only one major version of AppleWorks GS exists, progressing as far as 1.1; a [[vaporware]] 2.0 update was rumored to be "just short of completion" for a long time.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080624162702/http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/gslj/awgs.html AppleWorks GS]. Web.archive.org. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.</ref> AppleWorks GS can open AppleWorks files without needing to [[importer (computing)|import]] them first.<ref name="keizer198903">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/1989-03-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_106_1989_Mar#page/n59/mode/2up | title=Apple II | work=Compute! | date=March 1989 | access-date=10 November 2013 | author=Keizer, Gregg | page=58}}</ref>

==== GS version history ====
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! Version !! Year !! Notes
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| 1.0 || 1988 || First version
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| 1.0v2 ||  || Bug fix release.
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| 1.1 || 1989 || Supports System Software 5.
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| 1.2 || Not released || Planned bug fix release, developed by Quality Computers.
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| 2.0 || Not released || Planned release, developed by Quality Computers.
|}