MacLink plus and Mountain lion no longer compatible? How to read WP files?

Question

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and MacLink Plus won't work. When I click on MacLink Plus, I get a message saying PowerPC applications no longer supported.  I went to the Dataviz site, but MacLink is not even listed as one of their products.  I have hundreds of Word Perfect files from years of using a PC.  I was just translating them into readable form as I needed them using MacLink Plus.  I will be lost without it. Is there another product out there that can do this? Why is MacLink no longer being supported?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I was using Snow Leopard and that was fine, but I wanted to be able to use ICloud to keep all my devices up to date. 

Answer 1

lpell2 wrote:
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and MacLink Plus won't work. When I click on MacLink Plus, I get a message saying PowerPC applications no longer supported.  I went to the Dataviz site, but MacLink is not even listed as one of their products.  I have hundreds of Word Perfect files from years of using a PC.  I was just translating them into readable form as I needed them using MacLink Plus.  I will be lost without it. Is there another product out there that can do this? Why is MacLink no longer being supported? 
The need for MacLink Plus has greatly diminished in time, as the competing products user base fell off.  Think about it: how long ago was it that YOU purchased MacLink Plus.  With no income stream, there is no basis to continue to update these products.
lpell2 wrote:
Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I was using Snow Leopard and that was fine, but I wanted to be able to use ICloud to keep all my devices up to date. 
When you are done flogging yourself for not being "pro-active & ask[ing] questions beforehand rather than try[ing] to recover afterwards..."
Consider these Workarounds:
1.  Restore OS X Snow Leopard;
2.  Partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it and use the "dual-boot" method to choose between your PowerPC software or Lion/Mt. Lion;
3.  Upgrade your software to Intel compatible versions, or find alternative software that will open your data files [as you have discovered, this option may not be available to you]; or
3.  Install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels:
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Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
NOTE: STEP ONE of the instructions must currently be completed on a Snow Leopard or Lion Mac and the resulting modified Snow Leopard.cdr install file can then be moved over to your Mountain Lion Mac for completion of the remaining steps.
NOTE 2:  Computer games with complex, 3D or fast motion graphics make not work well or at all in virtualization.