8 Dec
2005
8 Dec
'05
6:08 a.m.
At 12:27 AM +0000 12/8/05, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 7/12/05 23:53, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh
at aracnet.com> wrote:
If you'll note, I'm not expecting Apple to provide this support, I'm
hoping a 3rd party will provide it.
Worst case, I setup something like my 8500/180
running an old enough
version of the OS so that I can also run "Warlords 2". BTW, I do own
PC versions of both games, from before I got a Mac, however, they're
limited to 640x480, while the Mac versions go up to something like
1152x870. Both games are also well on topic, but still two of my
favorite games of all time.
My only take on this that springs to mind is why should you expect a
computer company to continue supporting older hardware and software beyond a
certain timeframe unless they explicitly say their current product is 100%
compatible with their 10/15/20 year old product? It's almost like expecting
a car manufacturer to still support manual wind-down windows and non-central
locking because you happen to like manual windows and door locks you can
activate individually. Surely everything forces you to move on at a certain
point in time, the only
reason it should be an issue is if the company concerned decides to charge
an arm and a leg to migrate to newer product or uses unreasonable tactics.
No names mentioned there.
My problem is that one of the key application I use that requires 68k
and was dropped by Claris (aka Apple's App's division of the 90's),
the last new version came out sometime around 1995. There isn't a
better app, and it wasn't until this last year that there were any
apps out there that can read the data files.
In the meanwhile, if you NEED to run old apps why not
use old kit to do it?
/ducks and runs away very fast!
Lack of space. My space for legacy HW is taken up with a couple of
PDP-11's and a VAX. Though I must confess my Alpha is fast falling
into the legacy category :^( If I could I'd have an Amiga, Apple ][,
and Commodore 64 setup around here, but I don't have the space.
Oh, did I mention this? -> :o)
It's a good thing you did :^)
Zane
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