On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Sridhar Ayengar
<ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
How does one run old Macintosh software under
VMware?
Peace... Sridhar
An earlier version of OSX/x86 with Rosetta Stone? But that would run
PPC/OSX binaries, not Mac OS 9 stuff, right?
I don't actually recall when they got rid of 68k compatibility. My recollection is
that Classic (the OS 9 environment) did away with it right out of the gate. Classic
itself was deprecated in 10.5 (and never implemented for Intel, since it was just a VM and
not an emulator) and finally terminated in 10.6 (which did away with PPC native
compatibility altogether, as well as the capability to read/write HFS volumes, which was
quite vexing when I had to write to some floppies for older Macs). 10.7 did away with
Rosetta, which seemed a bit premature to me.
By the way, Rosetta Stone is a series of language education software; Rosetta is the
framework for PPC compatibility under Intel processors. Slight difference, but I
don't think any software is going to run under Rosetta Stone. :-)
- Dave