Archicad 6.5 without a key

[Anonymous]

I use AC 9 on a apple GA5 dual 2,0 Mas. I have several old projects made with AC 5.xi. Where can I find AC 6.5 without a key for opening the those old projects?

[David Maudlin]

DAMIEN wrote:
I use AC 9 on a apple GA5 dual 2,0 Mas. I have several old projects made with AC 5.xi. Where can I find AC 6.5 without a key for opening the those old projects?

Damien:

I was able to open an ArchiCAD 5.0 project with ArchiCAD 9 (also with ArchiCAD 8.1 and ArchiCAD 7), does this not work for you? I opened an archived project, which would not read the library parts from the archive directly, I needed to extract the library.

David

[Markus Denzlinger]

ArchiCAD 7 runs with the same protection key as ArchiCAD 9. You should be able to open your projects with ArchiCAD 7 properly.

Markus

[henrypootel]

If you still have your 8.1 install CD, you can open that up and go to the 'Support' folder.
In there are a bunch of replacement files for the 6.5 program, which will allow it to use a new WIBU key instead of the old Rainbow one. Just overwrite the files in your existing ArchiCAD 6.5 folder, with the new ones.

Additionally, if you are using a single key(ie. not a NET key), you will need to download the WIBU-key installer from Wibu's website, and run it with the 'Uninstal Kernel Extension' option. Then reboot your computer, and 6.5 should work fine.
CAUTION: To run v9 afterward, make sure that Classic is turned off, or it won't let v9 access the Key.

[henrypootel]

actually, i tell a lie.
Its on the ArchiCAD 7 CD