Applework documents won't open

Can I still buy Appleworks? I have quite a few documents on my old OSX saved in appleworks. However, I can't open them on my new imac because it doesn't have Appleworks installed - and Pages and Microsoft won't recognise the documents either.
Where can I buy the software for good old fashioned Appleworks?

Hello
-1- which was your old machine?
If it was an iMac, iBook, AppleWorks was bundled with it. If you always own this old beast or if it is dead, you may use this bundled AppleWorks on the new machine.
-2- in other cases, to use AppleWorks, you must buy it. All Apple vendor must be able to sell yo a copy of AppleWorks 6.2.9.
You may also buy it thru AppleStore.
From time to time some copies are available on ebay but in this occurence you must check that it is not an old version (before AppleWorks 6.2) whose installer will not run on your intel inside iMac.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 2 octobre 2006 14:02:0)

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