Personally I would have preferred to have exactly that product rewritten for 32 bit. But AmiPro was an excellent balance between features and performance on even the lowest powered computer. I can't thank you enough for making this available to me again. The ease of setting up a single table list is great for anyone that is not a serious database user. So many features such as the form letters are infinitely better than any other product on the market. Since then I have had countless people who need a desktop database and nothing to offer them. I didn't try to load it but bemoaned its loss.
Then when I upgraded to a new computer it warned me that approach was incompatible. It used a fraction of the memory footprint and was my first fully relational multiuser success. It was a balance between the simplicity of Works and the complexity of Access. So that too can be done, but it is really designed for reports output in the form of spreadsheets and charts with short form field content.)įor years I used Approach. I eventually found a way, via a creative workaround, requiring a few steps. (Well, generating the actual newsletter in text form, with long memo fields, proved very challenging. I used it for a complicated database tracking employers and their job listings and more, for a newsletter I had, and Approach worked great. And it has a super easy to use GUI for creating simple and complex databases, including multiple to multiple, with aliases, etc. It is a terrific little database program, which unlike Access, keeps the data and index files separate from the forms and report layouts (as proper database apps should do). There are some important fixes which improve compatibility greatly with Win7, etc, AND which fix bugs which caused some Approach query results to be incomplete, etc. This is the most valuable upload here, and might be the only place in the world where it is publicly available. I really hope someone makes this open source, as it would set the cat among the pigeons. I use it on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on a daily basis and I have no complaints at all. Access.Īfter several months, Approach is working excellently. It does some things with ease that are hard in other systems e.g. I do not know why IBM did not keep up development. We develop Approach databases and support them at Businesses still use Approach.
I moved to Windows 10 64bit because my Windows 8.1 machines have both died ( not the fault of Approach).
With Approach it really seems that Windows is the weak link. I will develop an application and see how it copes. I have just installed Approach on Windows 10 64bit () and it seems to work okay. The download worked fine, and Lotus Approach is working fine on Windows 8.0, 8.1. We use Approach all the time, and it is almost the only reason why we use Windows.
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