I have an original, 221 page printed Max94 manual that I’ve kept preserved for 20 years. After I scanned the entire manual and made a pdf file yesterday I contacted Neil Larson, the brain behind MaxThink and received his permission to upload the pdf file so anyone interested may download the manual for their own use.
Left click here: MaxThink to view the MaxThink manual or
Right click here: MaxThink and choose Save Link As to download.
As promised, I’m working on the tutorials. Making the manual available was a priority. Enjoy, please leave feedback and please respect Neil’s copyright.
And please be patient. The manual file is 8.5 Mb and takes a few seconds to view or download (depending on download speed).
I don’t know what this is, but I applaud your work and thoughtfulness so anyone interested can enjoy. 🙂
I don’t either… But nice to see you John….
I still have the Maxthink software and manual.
Thanks a lot. just what I needed. I contacted Neil about a year ago to ask if I could purchase a copy of MaxThink for DOS, and he gave me a copy for free. But without a manual. I did not want to bother him again, I managed anyway, but this is great.
Glad to help Gerard. I just posted a tutorial on how to get Max running in Linux.
Thank you very much. This will be a great addition to my MaxThink 89 manual…
Hi Rick. Are you using Max now? I posted a new tutorial a few minutes ago that explains how I got Max running on my Linux box.
Just got back from a deployment to Kuwait. Yes, I’m still using Max. I’ve been playing with setting up an alias so I can launch Max from the command prompt using dosemu.
Happy Hacking!
Rick
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Thank you for you work to preserve this important document. I think that MaxThink and Neil Larson were decades ahead of their time.
Thanks for the Kudos John. MaxThink and Neil were decades ahead of their time. So was David Tebbutt, the British guy who was the original developer and brains behind Brainstorm. David’s first go at Brainstorm was back in the 1908’s under CPM and was under continuous development until he sold the rights about 6 years ago. Pity he and Neil never collaborated because they had a similar vision.
I appreciated finding this. Still using Maxthink94. In fact, just bought a Win7 32 bit laptop so that I could still run it in a native form (rather than in a virtual machine like I’ve been doing for the past several years. It is that useful and important to me for my writing! I do have this manual in hardcopy, but am grateful for the pdf! Thanks.