GraphClick...Dead or can it be revived?

[WarthogARJ]

Hi,
Anyone know how to get a licence code/key for GrapohClick?

There's a really nice bit of software called GraphClick by the now defunct Airizona-Software-Ch.
It digitises graphs: well images and even movie clips.

It's 32 Bit, but it seemed to have dead-ended +/- 2010.
Version 3 is 2008
And there's a Beta Version.

You can still download a Trial version, but you cannot find anywhere to Register it.
Their website is dead.
Any contact links are dead.

The WayBack Machine has captures, but doesn't help to resolve the issue.

All I know is that:
Written in Cocoa with Objective C
Is 32-Bit
The Trial works, up until you want to get output from it.

It stores output in a (I think) proprietary file with a "gc" extension.

Any ideas?
As I said, I would happily pay the $8 for a license.

Alan

 

[Crowbot]

If it's 32 bit it won't run on a Mac with the current OS (Big Sur). You'll need a Mac running Mojave or earlier. With orphaned apps like this you're basically SoL if you can't register or contact the developer. I've had several beloved apps that went this way.

 

[satcomer]

Yea Apple should remove no paying apps from the Stores! I almost always above of this!

 

[WarthogARJ]

Hi,
Anyone know how to get a licence code/key for GrapohClick?
I'm willing to pay, being legal and following copyright is fine.
Or else, going....THe Dark Side is fine too.

There's a really nice bit of software called GraphClick by the now defunct Airizona-Software-Ch.
It digitises graphs: well images and even movie clips.

It's 32 Bit, but it seemed to have dead-ended +/- 2010.
Version 3 is 2008
And there's a Beta Version.

You can still download a Trial version, but you cannot find anywhere to Register it.
Their website is dead.
Any contact links are dead.

The WayBack Machine has captures, but doesn't help to resolve the issue.

All I know is that:
Written in Cocoa with Objective C
Is 32-Bit
The Trial works, up until you want to get output from it.

It stores output in a (I think) proprietary file with a "gc" extension.

Any ideas?
As I said, I would happily pay the $8 for a license.

Alan

Hi there,
OK, I did a bit more digging.
The Developers are two Swiss brothers, Jean and Simon Bovet.
I googled, and Jean Bovet in now in SAn Fransisco, with Salesforce.
And on Twitter.

I have posted a request on Twitter to ask him if he can resume Registrations.
And another guy asked him if he'd open-source it to allow it to be upgraded to 64-bit.

Jean's response (in 2019 to the open-source idea) was "Let me think about it".

Fair enough, he might want to sell it, or start running it again.
But in the mean time, I'm asking him if he can allow Registrations.

And even could donate those to a charity, as they did before in part.
So he doesn't need to feel guily for charging for an unsupported app, since Charity benefits.

If you agree, Tweet him....
@jean_bovet

I don't see that as harassing him: he put his name and details on the website, and the software was extremely well used.
He's in effect a public figure.
Alan

 

[WarthogARJ]

If it's 32 bit it won't run on a Mac with the current OS (Big Sur). You'll need a Mac running Mojave or earlier. With orphaned apps like this you're basically SoL if you can't register or contact the developer. I've had several beloved apps that went this way.

I don't know if it was an the App Store, but you can download the Trial Version from many sources.

And the issue is NOT about it being 32-bit or not.
Who cares?
It's very easy to run 32-bit apps on a VM if you "upgraded" to Big Slime.

I think it's poor practice by what's in effect an oligopoly (Apple and MS) to pull the rug out from the feet of everyone who wrote earlier, and still VERY useful, niuche/specialist apps like GraphClick.

 

[Crowbot]

I don't know if it was an the App Store, but you can download the Trial Version from many sources.

And the issue is NOT about it being 32-bit or not.
Who cares?
It's very easy to run 32-bit apps on a VM if you "upgraded" to Big Slime.

I think it's poor practice by what's in effect an oligopoly (Apple and MS) to pull the rug out from the feet of everyone who wrote earlier, and still VERY useful, niuche/specialist apps like GraphClick.

I'm sure the trial version is floating around the web. That's common for that kind of software. The developer doesn't have to worry about people stealing it.

I know it's easy to run 32 bit on a VM. I have a VM running Mojave right now. But it's obviously an issue for non-VM users.

If you mean Apple restricting software to 64 bit apps, I was very upset too and lost some apps that I wanted. But time and MacOS marches on. Not much to be done but accept it.

So it's either a VM or a separate machine running Mojave. I'm guessing that Apple still does security upgrades on it.