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

[Zane H. Healy]

At 12:27 AM +0000 12/8/05, Adrian Graham wrote:
>On 7/12/05 23:53, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>>  Worst case, I setup something like my 8500/180 running an old enough
>>  version of the OS so that I can also run "Warlords 2".  BTW, I do own
>>  PC versions of both games, from before I got a Mac, however, they're
>>  limited to 640x480, while the Mac versions go up to something like
>>  1152x870.  Both games are also well on topic, but still two of my
>>  favorite games of all time.
>
>My only take on this that springs to mind is why should you expect a
>computer company to continue supporting older hardware and software beyond a
>certain timeframe unless they explicitly say their current product is 100%
>compatible with their 10/15/20 year old product? It's almost like expecting
>a car manufacturer to still support manual wind-down windows and non-central
>locking because you happen to like manual windows and door locks you can
>activate individually.

If you'll note, I'm not expecting Apple to provide this support, I'm 
hoping a 3rd party will provide it.

>Surely everything forces you to move on at a certain point in time, the only
>reason it should be an issue is if the company concerned decides to charge
>an arm and a leg to migrate to newer product or uses unreasonable tactics.
>No names mentioned there.

My problem is that one of the key application I use that requires 68k 
and was dropped by Claris (aka Apple's App's division of the 90's), 
the last new version came out sometime around 1995.  There isn't a 
better app, and it wasn't until this last year that there were any 
apps out there that can read the data files.

>In the meanwhile, if you NEED to run old apps why not use old kit to do it?
>
>/ducks and runs away very fast!

Lack of space.  My space for legacy HW is taken up with a couple of 
PDP-11's and a VAX.  Though I must confess my Alpha is fast falling 
into the legacy category :^(  If I could I'd have an Amiga, Apple ][, 
and Commodore 64 setup around here, but I don't have the space.

>Oh, did I mention this? -> :o)

It's a good thing you did :^)

		Zane


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