Not OT: Classic apps and the Intel Mac

This has been known from the beginning of the switch to Intel. No, I've not heard this, but it is disturbing. With 10.4 they removed the support for Classic Appletalk that was added in either 10.1 or 10.2 (I didn't switch till 10.2 in part becuase of this). Also, the simple fact remains that most users don't need or care about classic support. This is one of the reasons I'm still running 10.3.9. I still use ClarisDraw that I bought in 1995, it cost me a *LOT* and was never updated. Up until the last year or so it wasn't even possible to get software that could read my data files (now several basically unheard of drawing apps do). I use it because it does 99.9% of what I need, and becuase nothing else I've tried is as easy to use. I've paid for Adobe CS Premium, so I have Illustrator CS, but for what I typically need, it's overkill, and I don't have time to learn it. I tend to suspect that there are enough of us that are stuck with apps that can't be easily replaced, that there is a market for something along the lines of VPC for running classic Mac OS on the new Intel-based Mac's. Personally I really hope someone develops it, as I'll be looking for it when I go to upgrade. Ideally it would be able to tranparently access the host systems filesystem, run classic Appletalk, and run a range of OS versions. I'd really like to be able to run System 7.5, 7.6, and 8.0, as I have software that doesn't work right on newer versions (one app I wrote myself, the rest are commercial apps). Worst case I setup either my PowerMac 8500/180 or G4/450 running classic Mac OS. Which is tempting in any case, as I have software that is locked to the 8500, and hardware that will only work with one of those two systems. My problem with this solution is a lack of room. Zane