I miss Classic
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From: nospam on 31 Mar 2010 22:47 In article <jwolf6589-690ACC.21421231032010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > Yes I agree that SL kicks Classics butt. However I miss Photoshop, photoshop has been os x native since version 7, released *eight* years ago. it's time to upgrade. > Accordance and some of my other apps that will cost me a pretty penny to > replace, or do not have a OSX replacement (Street Atlas USA for one) and > my old games. street atlas didn't even work that well when it was new and google maps is much better anyway (except when not connected to the net). > I wish some mac developing company would produce a commercial program > than would allow me to run my old classic games and apps. I would pay > the bucks for it if something decent were produced. there's not enough demand to bother. find a windows version of the game and run it in vmware.
From: Nick Naym on 31 Mar 2010 23:02 In article jwolf6589-690ACC.21421231032010(a)nntp.charter.net, John at jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com wrote on 3/31/10 9:42 PM: > While its nice that something like Sheephaver exists, the truth is that > its no replacement for Classic. I have apps that worked beautifully in > Classic that do not run in SheepShaver, or do not run properly. And I > have apps that never ran in Classic that work great in SheepShaver (some > old games would be an example). > > Yes I agree that SL kicks Classics butt. However I miss Photoshop, > Accordance and some of my other apps that will cost me a pretty penny to > replace, or do not have a OSX replacement (Street Atlas USA for one) and > my old games. > > I wish some mac developing company would produce a commercial program > than would allow me to run my old classic games and apps. I would pay > the bucks for it if something decent were produced. > > But the advantage to my new Mac is that I can run Windows and perhaps > one day I will give this Fusion a shot and hope that it works allot > better than Parallels did, which was a dog slow experience with only > 2MB's of RAM. But Parallels did have many features thta may be mssing > from Fusion. > > > John Speaking of favorite Classic apps, here's an all-time favorite of mine that was upgraded by the author to run in OS X...and both it and the original Classic version are available for free: http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3)
From: Mr. Strat on 31 Mar 2010 23:07 In article <jwolf6589-690ACC.21421231032010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > While its nice that something like Sheephaver exists, the truth is that > its no replacement for Classic. I have apps that worked beautifully in > Classic that do not run in SheepShaver, or do not run properly. And I > have apps that never ran in Classic that work great in SheepShaver (some > old games would be an example). Blah...blah...blah It's been 9 years since OS X was introduced. It might be time to move on.
From: D Finnigan on 31 Mar 2010 23:14 John wrote: > > I would pay > the bucks for it if something decent were produced. > Just get an old Mac. That's the best way to go retro computing with style. I don't know about retro computing. -- Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and Macintosh computing. http://macgui.com/vault/
From: Mike Dee on 1 Apr 2010 00:24
In article <jwolf6589-690ACC.21421231032010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > I wish some mac developing company would produce a commercial program > than would allow me to run my old classic games and apps. I would pay > the bucks for it if something decent were produced. Buy an old Mac on ebay for a few dollars and run your old programs under a native Classic Mac OS. Being able to boot into Mac OS 9.x or earlier is better than running under classic or sheepshaver. For example; a 1GHz Quicksilver 2002 DP G4 PPC is capable of native booting into either Mac OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X (including Leopard w/o classic) - works well with Tiger which does support running Classic under OS X as well. See: <http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_1ghz_dp_qs.htm> -- dee |