In article <13r6p0645i47o1b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
bobg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Robert Grumbine) wrote:
> In article <6QEsj.2586$YL3.1943@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> OughtFour <luster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >"Gerry" <everyday@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:everyday-DA7F39.14082410022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> The FAQ is well out of date. As an example Reunion is now version
9.06
> >> and was last updated in November 2007.
> >
> >And Gene is a Classic application, no longer sup****ted on newer macs.
(But
> >it's a wonderful program! I suppose there are OS 9 emulators out there
some
> >place.)
>
> Any version of OS X through 10.4 can launch classic applications.
> Starting with 10.5 (current release), you lose that capability. (I'm
> setting up a 10.4-bootable partition on my system to preserve my 1980s
legacy
> stuff while I continue to move it to more recent formats and softwares.
> I still miss WingZ, which was lost in the 68000 -> powermac transition
> in ?8.)
A minor caveat to the above: this is true only on PPC systems, since
Intel systems have never been able to use Classic, and it's true only if
the user actually installed Classic -- it's not a default option.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
|
