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

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > Well, the situation isn't nearly that dire; there's Basilisk II and
> > SheepShaver, both of which do have native OS X builds. But you have to
> > run them within an emulator, which is kludgey and not nearly as
> > integrated -- if not elegant -- as Classic is.
> 
> I'll have to look at SheepShaver, I've not heard of it.  Last I 
> looked, Basilisk II isn't really what I'm after, though it might be 
> fine for the games.

It's fine for limited tasks. SheepShaver is the PPC side of things; it can
actually cover both purposes, of course, using the PPC->68K ROM emulator.
I use it occasionally when I need to be in "real OS 9" but don't want to
reboot into OS 9.

> I don't have to wonder why they stopped, I've seen the writing on the 
> wall for a while now.  How many people run Classic app's under Mac OS 
> X?  I'm under the impression that most users don't even bother with 
> installing the classic emulation.

My two recent Mac conversions haven't, no. They're happy with Carbon and
Cocoa apps.

> A perfect example of Apple ditching legacy support is Classic 
> Appletalk.  It wasn't in 10.0, and I don't think it was in 10.1, it 
> was in 10.2 and 10.3, BUT, they removed it from 10.4.  Once they'd 
> added it in, how much trouble was it to keep it in there???? 
> Granted, for most people this didn't cause problems, but it's caused 
> one person I know of to move to Linux, and it caused me to have to 
> spend some serious time upgrading Samba on my VMS server, as I use 
> Appletalk to allow my Mac to access my VMS box.  BTW, I'm back on 
> 10.3 and probably will be for a while, but that's because I think 
> 10.4 is a waste of resources, and 10.3 does all I need.  Until I need 
> to run an app that requires 10.4, I don't think I'll be upgrading 
> (and I bought 10.4 the day it came out)!

Actually, my desktop is still on 10.2 ... on purpose. My file server runs
10.3, and my laptop runs 10.4.

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