Open Photoshop 3 files and convert to TIFF or JPEG --- on the cheap!

Hello,
I have about a hundred large scans in PS3 format on DVD.
I never use PS or other pro photo SW; only iPhoto.
My last PS is v7.
I run the latest Snow Leopard on my new MBP 17 iCore7.
All I want is to recover these files and convert them to the highest quality and most accessible format without having to spend my $, only my time.
Can anyone put me near this goal?
---h

I'm not sure what you mean by "PS3 format"--do you mean they are psd files that were created in Photoshop 3? As far as I remember Photoshop 3 simply created standard Photoshop files that, if one chose to have extensions (which you didn't have to way back then) had a .psd extension. If the files are indeed Photoshop files, but without the extension, you can simply copy them off the DVD and add the .psd extension to them. Preview will usually open psd files. I do have at least one VERY old psd file that Preview won't open, it displays a note in English and French, that Photoshop 3 is required. It does open with Photoshop Elements 8 and the free GIMP. Why it won't open in Preview I don't know, perhaps because it has three layers, two of which are text layers. Other psd files with layers DO open in Preview, although they often look a bit peculiar, and files with just one layer, created at the same time, open fine. Also, iPhoto will generally open psd files, and even display one with layers correctly (as if it had been flattened), but will not handle files with alpha channels very gracefully, nor will Preview. The GIMP has no problem with layers nor alpha channels.
Francine
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