I get several emails every month from people running QuickVerse 4 and needing help to install it on a new machine, or to install some add-on product. Or they want to know where to find a particular QuickVerse 4 Bible, CD, or other related program.
I’ve made a decision tonight to just be done with that topic. Laridian has its own Bible software for Windows now, so there’s no need for anyone to keep using QuickVerse. If Findex wants to support their product, they can do it. I’m not going to do it anymore.
It’s been thirteen years since I sold all my interest in QuickVerse to Intuit coincident with the sale of Parsons Technology to Broderbund. It’s been eleven years since QuickVerse 4 (the most popular version of QuickVerse) came out. It’s been almost ten years now since I left Parsons Technology. It’s been about that long since tech support was available for QuickVerse 4 from its current owner. That’s a long time. Microsoft is on its third version of Windows since then. I’ve married off three daughters since then. QuickVerse has been owned by at least four different companies since then.
I’ll leave the QuickVerse 4.0g patch at my website. You need that version to install under XP and perhaps later versions of Windows. Once you download it and save it to your hard drive, just run it to update your QV4 installation to the rev “g” version of QV4. Other than that, it’s past time to move on. Both for me and for die-hard QuickVerse customers.
Until a couple weeks ago there wasn’t a good option for people who liked the old QuickVerse programs. Now there is. I’m ready to retire from the QuickVerse support business. I don’t really remember anything about that program anyway. 
– Craig
I am STILL using Quickverse 3.0d which was the freebee GIVEN AWAY with the KJV in the early 1990′s! I took my old disk and burnt it to a Cd. I have installed it and it has worked on every OS, including Vista, w/o fail or need to hack. As a Pastor who does A LOT of publishing with large amounts of Scripture quoted, it is so quick to get verse I am looking for in a format I can paste into whatever I am writing in mere seconds. I have had more modern packages over the years and still use them, but when it comes down to getting to a verse quickly and ease of use, QV 3 leaves everyone of them in the dust. I know you have claimed to end support, but would be interested in knowing if anyone knows the legality of copying it for others since it was a FREE version.
Even though QV3 was given away free, that does not change its copyright status. Giving something away does not put it into the public domain, nor does it make it “fair use” for another person to give it away.
However, there was probably some kind of license agreement that you may still have either as part of the program documentation or one of the files on your CD. It may allow you to distribute it. I don’t remember. I doubt it, though, as when we gave something away it was usually in exchange for an email address or other contact info, which we would then use to market products to the person.
If you want to get permission to give away QV3, contact Findex. They’re the current owners. http://www.findex.com.
How ironic! The post states that Craig is no longer supporting QuickVerse, and half the comments on said post are asking for support for QuickVerse from Craig. Do commenters actually read the post on which they are commenting? Sometimes I doubt it.
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Craig, congratulations on moving on – I know it is hard on the one hand, but very necessary on the other. And thank you for the blog – because you provided it, you also provided Bob Bishop the opportunity to answer my ‘support question’! Bob, thanks for the insight – it worked equally well for QV7.
And a full YEAR after Craig’s post some of use are on occasion still coming across it fresh.
I dunno if I ever actually sent an original Thank You for the 4.0g patch Craig, but here ’tis.
(Yes, I still use QV4 …and a simply copy of the 4.0g patched version from an XP machine to a Vista machine, keeping the exact same folder structure & naming – though with the Vista UAC turned off – and I imagine it will keep me for a few more years.)
But when it no longer suffices, I’m glad to hear that you’re working at Laridian, and I’ve got a current option from the guy who wrote the best.
So should I just THROW OUT my Quickverse 6 expandededition, seeing Vista can’t install it? How do I get the benefit of the money spent andall the titles now? Anyone?
QuickVerse 6 is about 10 years old. Certainly you’ve gotten your money’s worth after ten years of use. And you certainly don’t expect software to run forever, as the operating systems and hardware are updated.
I think if you’re not going to upgrade the product as the company releases new versions you can’t expect your version to continue to work forever.
And of course, you’re not going to make any progress by posting here. This is a Findex issue and you need to talk to them.
Amazingly, I managed to install it today by opening the files/folders and clicking setup, then following the advice of someone here, doing the install via the administrator route. It worked and I just copied all three disks onto the harddrive. Praise the Lord!
I to am a user of QV5. Upgrading to Vista I had problems with UAC. I solved it by downloading TweakUAC and setting UAC to quite Mode, QV5 to administrator. Turned off UAC to install. It now works with UAC on!
Thanks Craig for your support through the years. I kept my Quickverse current through version 10 (2006) I did get your patch for ver. 4 and am still using it on VISTA. I am just now reponding to your post because I would never have expected you to still be supporting a product from a company you are no longer a part of. I confess that I still like the UI of QV 4.0 best.
Craig, I just happened to stumble onto this Web site and was surprised to see your name. No, I haven’t bothered you with QV questions since Parsons was sold to Broderbund but probably would have had I known how to reach you. SMILE! The reason I’m writing? I still remember how wonderful you and your staff were in the Parsons days: always helpful, always courteous, always kind, always going the extra mile to help. I still think kindly of those of you that I dealt with then, and I just wanted to say “thank you” one more time.
Any chance that Laridan will implement some of the features of QV4 into their Bible software? Although I bought several versions after QV4, I never liked them and kept going back. Now that I’ve moved up to a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, QV4 doesn’t run on my new machine. I’ve tried the newer versions of QV, Laridan’s software, e-Sword, and several others, and they all miss a few key features that I loved in QV4:
1) I used a Word add-in that allowed me to easily paste multiple verses into Word documents (like Sunday School lessons). For instance, if I run the macro (which I assign to a key combination) and type “lk 6.36; 1 pet 1.15-16; 1 jn 4.7-8″, it’ll insert those verse. It’s much more cumbersome and time-consuming with Laridan and any of the other aternatives.
2) The ability to quickly and easily jump to a verse by hitting a key combination and typing the reference, like “lk 6″ or “1 jn 4.7″. With most, you now have to select the book, select the chapter, and select the verse. Much more time-consuming.
3) A powerful search option, particularly combining complex keyword searches with Naves topics. Nothing else comes close.
1) That Word add-on feature was a real pain to maintain. Microsoft changed how it worked with each upgrade and changed the technology we used to interact with other programs. This is not a feature I would look to do in the future. I believe you can script any app to do what you want, though. I just haven’t investigated how to do it.
2) You can just type “lk 6″ or “1 jn 4.7″ and PocketBible for Windows will go there. You don’t have to hit any buttons first. Just start typing. You can also issue commands from the keyboard like “copy john 3.16″ to copy verses to the clipboard, or “find jesus” to find all verses in which “jesus” occurs.
3) The search feature that used Nave’s topics was a bit of a weird one. It dates back to the days when every new piece of content became a feature of the program, rather than treating all content like a book on a shelf that could be opened alongside other books. It would be convoluted to do something like that today. Our PocketBible program, however, does allow you to search only verses in a particular bookmark category, or those you’ve highlighted in a particular color. It also supports searching for Strong’s numbers, or English words only when they’re translated (or not translated) from a particular Strong’s number. You can use character wildcards like “[sp]aul” to find “Saul” or “Paul” but not “haul”. It does AND, OR, NOT, and XOR Boolean operators, and WITHIN for proximity searching. It’s as sophisticated as any other Bible program with the exception of doing Greek and Hebrew language searches.
Thanks for your interest.
Hi Craig, I have been pastoring at my current church for 11 years but I still get calls from members of previous churches I pastored. It is not frequent and never about their current pastor or church but sometimes with the bond we shared it nice to talk to an old friend. This sounds very dramatic I know, but I have used QV4 everyday for many years, preparing thousands of sermons and lessons with it. It is like a friend. It is not easy letting go. When I upgraded to windows 7 64bit and realized it wouldn’t work anymore, it was like loosing an old friend. Thanks for your years of hard work. It has blessed more people than you will know on this side of things!
G’day Craig,
Thanks for producing such excellent Bible software over the years; as a pastor I have been using it virtually every week.
Like some of the earlier commenters on this topic, I bought QV3 way back in 1996, soon ‘patched’ it to QV4.0g, and have moved it from ‘puter to ‘puter as I’ve upgraded them over the years. Currently it’s running without a hitch on my Win7 netbook at home. So from Win95 to Win98SE to WinXP to Vista to Win7… will it never stop working?!! Brilliant!
Nice to see that you have now produced PB… ready for me to purchase when I have the need. But at this stage QV4 continues to do the trick, and give me the best value for money out of *any* software I’ve ever purchased.
Thanks again,
Mike.
I’m a firm believer in moving on to bigger and better (or just better) things. However, here it is in 2010 and I have yet to find a compelling reason to discard QV 4.0 and move on. I’ve tried QV 5.0, 6.0 and 9.0, hoping to find something at least equal to the ease, functionality and performance of QV 4.0 – but I’ve been unsuccessful. The UI of 4.0 simply outshines and outperforms all of its successors. I see it in a way how Windows tries to keep up with the Mac OS and has been trying to do so for two decades. Now I’m both a Mac and PC user. I own an Intel-based Mac and run VMWare so I can run Windows. And there are only two reasons why I even need to run Windows – one is Outlook for e-mail and the other is QuickVerse 4.0. And I have had no issues whatsover running QV 4.0f on XP or Vista. I’m just glad that when I bought QV 4.0 way back when (in 1997 I think), that I bought the deluxe version with quite a few translations. The only two translations I wish I could add are the ESV and The Message and since both came out well past QV 4.0, I guess I’m just out of luck unless there’s a way to convert the STEP version of those translations (which I have) into a format QV 4.0 can read. All that is to say, I’ve tried to move past the rock solid performing QV 4.0, but 13 years later, there’s just no complelling reason to do so. Craig, all I can say is thanks for creating QV 4.0!
Correction, that was QV 4.0g above, not 4.0f.
Thanks for the patch, Craig!
Craig,
Thanks for your support for the many years that you did past your employ there.
I recently bought a new computer with Windows 7 Pro.
With Pro and above you can go to the Microsoft website and download free, the software to install virtual XP on the Windows 7 computer.
After you put on Virtual XP, you can install QV4 along with the patch. It runs just like it did on the XP and before computers.
I saw this in a discussion on the internet the other day.
I hope this helps.
Larry
I wanted to second what Larry said. I just built a new machine with Windows 7 professional 64 on it and couldn’t use QV4. I tried to use other programs including Laridian’s PC software but it wasn’t the same. The solution was to download Virtual XP and now QV4 is working like a charm. Life is good again.
Have searched your past responses but haven’t found a comment to this request. Any chance of incorporating the INDEX Tab feature of the old QV4 in the PocketBible for Windows. Recently purchased your Laridian PB, but the Bookmark tab is just not as fast and effecient as copying the entire passage to a chosen index with CTRL+E and then pasting the entire index to your clipboard or printer.
As so many others I have been a user of Quickverse since it was DOS-based. I have missed the INDEX feature of QV4 in EVERY pc-based Bible program I have purchased including PC Study Bible 5 and Quickverse 2011.
Thanks for your continued work in good solid Bible Software!