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How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
I'm curious what essential Classic apps folks are still running.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Essential apps:
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Lots of custom software is needed to configure or operate older hardware. The devices may still be in use but the control computer has failed. In my case, I don't want to carry around an old laptop to occasionally configure an older device.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Lots of old Ambrosia software games!
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Indeed. I'm still occasionally playing Fool's Errand and the original Myst. Except for that, I can't remember the last time I used Classic to actually accomplish anything.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
There are Mac OS X versions of a few of those games I think - Maelstrom certainly, and Apeiron too I think.
Future Cop
Yeah, games are about all I ever run in Classic, too! I still run Civilization 2 (sue me, that's the version I like!), and I just get a hankerin' to run Future Cop sometimes, which was a kick-butt game that never got the marketing it deserved. It even came out for the Mac before the PC (in 1998!). Neither of these games, AFAIK, will ever be updated to OS X. As long as I can play these games, I will, 'cause they're great games, so why all the hate about those of us who still keep a copy of Classic around?
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
SimTower. :-D
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
quarkxpress 4.0 along with a ton of custom developed software for it. the expense and time to re-develop the code for use with the current version of quark would be out of proportion with the benefit gained. xpress 4.0 runs perfectly for what i use it for.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Virtual TimeClock 2.5. I know that there are dozens of Time-recording applications available for OS X, but they all require entry of clients, projects, tasks, or other endless information for which I have no need. Virtual TimeClock does one thing, simply--it works like a regular punchclock, allowing me to clock-in/clock-out for the day and for breaks, and totals my time entries and overtime. There is a Pro version for OS X, but it costs $129--the one I have cost me $29 years ago. Until someone comes up with a replacement, I'll keep using this one.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Oops! That's $195 for Virtual TimeClock Pro.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Those are some interesting replies. I'm just confused how someone can have the money to buy an intel machine, but no money to upgrade software. How about you upgrade that software first?
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
It is quite possible for software upgrades to total MORE than the cost of new hardware. Software can be VERY expensive. I got a font editor for less than a hundred bucks 20 years ago. Now it's several hundred, and doesn't even have all the features of the old software. I am planning to use vMac to run FONTastic Plus 2.0.2 and other System 6 software which to this day still have no OS X equivalent. Apple's killing of OS 9 does not magically make new and affordable software appear. Hey, I wish it did.
How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs
Over the last 20 years I have written literally hundreds of HyperCard apps that are indispensable to my research. Most of them use specialized externals that will not work with the various HC replacements that have come out since Apple dropped HC. I also need to use a genetic mapping program called ACeDB. There is a OS X version but it would require that I redo much of my data AND modify the HC scripts I use to generate the data file in the first place. |
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