Older FreeHand Installers

The purpose of offering these installers on my site is to help replace lost or corrupted original floppy or CD ROM disks. By downloading these installers, it assumes that you already have a registered serial number. If you've misplaced it, then contact Macromedia with your orginal registration information. They should still have that on file:

phone: (800) 470-7211

e-mail: customerservice@macromedia.com

INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK! I will not offer any "official" support on the these products. They comes as is, with no warranty or guarantee that it will even work on most modern computers or OS's. Macromedia as well does not fully support these older versions of FreeHand, so don't expect them to help with any serious problems.

I will help out with problems as much as I can, but first try the Macromedia TechNotes or try the Troubleshooting section of this site.

Each Installer set is broken up into separate disk images so you don' t have to download every single disk image if you only need to replace one.

First you need to get a copy of Apple's Disk Copy utility for mounting the image files present in these archives. Mount the images and then run the installer. You can also use Disk Copy to recreate the disks on to a floppy, though it's not necessary if you store these intact images on removable media.

FreeHand 2 install.sit — 200k program.sit — 348k portfolio.sit — 423k quicktour.sit — 416k

 

FreeHand 3 disk1.sit — 619k disk3.sit — 745k disk2.sit — 699k disk4.sit — 647k

 

FreeHand 3.1.1 fh1.sit — 608k fh4.sit — 682k fh2.sit — 704k fh5.sit — 662k fh3.sit — 744k

 

FreeHand 4 1.sit — 1.19MB 5.sit —1.33MB 2.sit — 1.36MB 6.sit — 1.33MB 3.sit — 1.32MB 7.sit — 1.31MB 4.sit — 1.33MB 8.sit — 1.12MB FreeHand 4 (PPC)   1.sit — 1.19MB 5.sit —1.33MB 2.sit — 1.36MB 6.sit — 1.33MB 3.sit — 1.32MB 7.sit — 1.31MB 4.sit — 1.33MB 8.sit — 1.12MB

 

FreeHand 5 freehand5install1.sit — 1.29MB freehand5install4.sit — 1.31MB freehand5install2.sit — 1.31MB freehand5install5.sit — 1.31MB freehand5install3.sit — 1.31MB freehand5install6.sit — 1.12MB

 

FreeHand 5.5 (not disk images) freehand55installer.sit — 1.28MB freehand55installer5.sit — 1.34MB freehand55installer2.sit — 1.34MB freehand55installer6.sit — 1.33MB freehand55installer3.sit — 1.34MB freehand55installer7.sit — 1.34 MB freehand55installer4.sit — 1.33MB freehand55installer8.sit — 846k

Windows Installers

When installing these, unzip them and follow the special instructions for each version. If you have any problems getting these to install, please let me know.

FreeHand 4 (not disk images) To Install, unzip the following files and place each "install.xxx" file into the same directory as the setup.exe is in. FH4pc_disk1.zip — 1.3MB FH4pc_disk3.zip — 1.3MB FH4pc_disk2.zip — 1.4MB FH4pc_disk4.zip — 420k

 

FreeHand 5 (not disk images) README.TXT FH5IE02.zip — 1.4MB SETUP.zip — 280k FH5IE03.zip — 1.4MB FH5IEINF.zip — 5k FH5IE04.zip — 1.4MB FH5IE01.zip — 1MB FH5IE05.zip — 840k

I haven't been able to track down all of the Windows installers yet. If you have some original floppies of these and can create Zip files of them please e-mail them to me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.