11 Jan
2006
11 Jan
'06
6:03 a.m.
This means a
lot of legacy software is now suddenly worthless on the next
generation of Macintoshes.
Hardly. It means that emulators will now take over that function. I know emulators aren't as good as the real thing,
but hell, neither was
trying to get a classic app working on OS X. If I want to run a classic
app properly, the way it works best and was intended, I run it on
classic hardware. I don't think many here will disagree with me.
... is true in idealistic theory, but Classic is better than emulation
because of its integration with the OS. If I want to run a "Mac in a box"
then I shouldn't even bother with an emulator, and it would probably be
less compatible anyway.
On the other hand, I use some of these apps for real work and the fact that
Classic transparently maps on the hardware, the file system and makes the app
windows part of the OS is important and handy. A "Mac in a window" just
doesn't cut it in the same way -- there are already emulators for 68K and
PPC Macs on OS X, but I use Classic regularly. It's already an integral part
of the OS, so I don't see why Apple would want to take this away from PPC
users where it already works. I can see why they don't want to expend the
extra work for Intel, but I think they should support Classic on PPC until
they don't support PPC anymore.
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