There are two archives which are basically the two volumes from the
CD.

AppWare_12_Mac.toast.zip \- this is the Mac volume in Toast4/MacZip
format.

APPWARE_12_WIN.iso.zip \- this is the Windows volume in standard
ISO/zip format.

No serial code required. From what I can gather researching other
sites and forums this is a rare piece of software, so I thought it
would be best to include both versions for historical purposes.

Update \- I found a backup CD-R with a copy of MicroBrew 1.3.1 for
Mac. All it contains is the app folder. I do not recall how MicroBrew
was shipped and if there's an original floppy, CD, or installer, or if
maybe it was a simple download. I'll keep looking, but even if this is
all I can find it's better then nothing.

I copied this to SheepShaver and it runs. It can also compile apps
under Mac OS 9.

Update #2 \- I found an old 800K 3.5" Serius Programmer Demo floppy,
Macintosh Version 3.0. It has a version of Serius Programmer which
predates the Novell and MicroBrew uploads, though in this case it is
just a demo. It also has three sample projects. The download
Serius_Programmer_Demo.sit is a compressed Disk Copy 4.2 image. Serius
chose to to use the Expand Now format for the archive on this disk.
Since that's a rather rare format, I've also included
Serius_Demo_Files.sit which is a StuffIt archive of the contents of
the original archive.

I've tested this demo on a Power Mac 9600/350 running System 7.6, Mac
OS 8.1, and Mac OS 8.6. On Mac OS 9.1 it causes a hard crash at
launch.

Note that the title of the actual application is "Serius Workshop" and
the about box shows a version 1.0. The copyright dates in the about
box and on the floppy are the same (1992). I seem to recall that
Serius had Developer and Programmer editions, so I'm confused by
"Workshop 1.0" on a "Programmer 3.0" demo disk. I suppose it's
possible the former owner wiped the disk and saved a different demo
version? I'm not sure, but at least it's another piece to the history
of rare software.

Issues

The Mac version will not run or build applications on Mac OS 9. I seem
to remember it working fine on Power Macs using System 7 and Mac OS 8
back in the 90's, so I'm guessing it's an issue with Mac OS 9. I don't
currently have a SheepShaver drive setup with either 7 or 8, but if I
put one together soon I will test and report back here.

The Windows version surprisingly runs and compiles on Windows XP. This
was an app originally written for Windows 3.

Overview

Wikipedia Article: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppWare>

AppWare was a visual programming language that started out as Serius
Developer. It was later purchased by Novell and released under the
name AppWare. Eventually it was spun off to Network Multimedia Inc.
(NMI) and launched under the name MicroBrew.

I always kept an eye on this product and occasionally purchased a
license, but I never ended up using it much. As a language it was
interesting but very limited. Basically you would program by drawing
control flow charts. Icons represented objects and the commands they
could perform. At first glance it looked like a very impressive and
productive way to code.

The problem is that it felt much more like a scripting language then a
true programming language. One huge limitation was that there was no
'new' operator for constructing objects. So you couldn't do something
as simple as creating a program that could display two document
windows at once.

But there were other limitations. It was trivially easy to create
simple apps to do small tasks, such as print labels or upload files to
a single location. But you couldn't do much more then that. It was
common to start prototyping in AppWare/MicroBrew, get a partial
control chain drawn, and then realize there was no way to get the
language or a language object to perform some task in the way that you
needed. At which point you simply moved to a "real" IDE.

This is the exact opposite of the other visual language I'm familiar
with from the time period, Prograph. Prograph (now Marten) was a first
class language comparable to Java or C++. You could open a compsci
book and start implementing algorithms in Prograph. But not in
AppWare.

Still, this is a fantastic piece of history for anyone who is
interested. I know that at one time I had a license to the MicroBrew
version, but I don't know if the CD has been lost. If I find it, I'll
upload it here.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

I cannot seem to find the minimum requirements for either version in
the CD docs.

Best guess on the Mac version? System 7 and 4 MB of free RAM.

A Google search revealed an old article that said the Windows version
needed an 80386 with 4MB of RAM. I believe Windows 3.1 was the minimum
OS.