Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software
>   From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
>   Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:22:52 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>>What's really water under the bridge is 16-bit mode in Windows.  Vista
>>>doesn't support it, period.   Maybe someone will write a 16-bit emulator
> >
>> PPC applications written for the G3 under Carbon. That means Classic apps
>> -- including 68K apps -- will probably die in the future.
>
>What bothers me is:  How hard is it to include an emulator?  Who cares if the 
>emulator is 100x as slow as the real thing when you're running it on a machine 
>that is capable of running OS X or Windows Vista?
>-- 

Jim,

It's real hard when the vendor(s) want you to buy office suite 2007 or 
whatever.   Till someone (not a vendor) gets the emulator written the 
rest of will run it on classic hardware and software.

"The only way to win the game is to not play."


Allison