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At Ease 5.0
Posted by: LaPorta on 2023-08-02 07:32:44
Does anyone have this, or know where to locate it?
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-08-02 07:37:47
Does anyone have this, or know where to locate it?
Apparently included in this download :

Edit - download needed login. Try this one.


Note it is with toolkit 2.0
Posted by: joshc on 2025-04-19 00:01:17
@LaPorta Did you ever find At Ease 5.0?

I'm just having a look at the Network Administrator Toolkit link above but the contents of it are entirely corrupted, despite it being a .sit.

I found some data sheets while trying to find another copy of it.
This is the data sheet for Apple Network Administrator Toolkit 2.5 which states it has At Ease for Workgroups 5.0: https://ia803100.us.archive.org/25/items/ads_ANAT_2.5_DS/ANAT_2.5_DS.pdf

A bit more digging reveals an earlier version that was for At Ease 4.0:

Finally getting somewhere... WinWorld has both copies and they don't seem to be corrupted!

winworldpc.com

Apple Network Administrator Toolkit 1.0

The Apple Network Administrator Toolkit is a set of tools for aiding centralized network management on early Macintosh computers. It also includes later versions of At Ease for Workgroups.
winworldpc.com
winworldpc.com

Apple Network Administrator Toolkit 2.0

The Apple Network Administrator Toolkit is a set of tools for aiding centralized network management on early Macintosh computers. It also includes later versions of At Ease for Workgroups.
winworldpc.com

The 2.0 page there has an ISO which mounts OK in Basilisk... 🎉

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I'll see about uploading these to Mac Garden and informing Mac Garden that their existing copy of Apple Network Administrator Toolkit is corrupted.

I ran the Workstation install but after a reboot it hangs while trying to presumably load the Desktop/At Ease, so there must be something Basilisk, or my specific OS install, doesn't like about it... I'll keep having a play to see if I can get it doing something. Perhaps it's because the workgroup version of At Ease doesn't work on single machines without the server side setup, which makes sense in my mind - the client has nothing to talk to, so it just hangs? The only other version of At Ease I'm familiar with is 2.0 which works on single machines.

The server/admin parts of the software unsurprisingly don't do much without networking set up... but I can confirm that they install OK from the Network Admin Toolkit 2.0 disk image from WinWorld.
Posted by: joshc on 2025-04-19 00:16:44
Just tried At Ease 2.0.3 in Basilisk II and can confirm it works OK, so the issue with 5.0 being a workgroup package and therefore reliant on networking/an At Ease server must be the reason it hangs after boot in Basilisk.

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If so desired, simply moving 'At Ease Startup' extension out of the Extensions folder stops At Ease from starting, without removing any of the other bits of it.
Posted by: robin-fo on 2025-04-19 01:36:06
but the contents of it are entirely corrupted, despite it being a .sit.
It expands nicely using The Unarchiver, so the SIT is probably not corrupted. But I experienced similar issues with StuffIt Expander before...
Posted by: joshc on 2025-04-19 02:06:05
It expands nicely using The Unarchiver, so the SIT is probably not corrupted. But I experienced similar issues with StuffIt Expander before...
Ah no, that's not what I meant. The .sit itself unarchives fine, but the files inside it, which are various .img or .bin files, are corrupted.
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