7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
7:40 a.m.
On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:09 AM, John Foust wrote:
At 09:06 AM 12/7/2011, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
There are plenty of both, I guess, but I'd rather have something that participated as
a citizen in its native environment. Fortunately, I have plenty of native environments
for Word 5.1; I just wish it worked nicely on my newer machines.
Hm. I wonder if it would be possible to make a VM for OS X to run old classic apps the
way WINE or the JVM does (but, ideally, better than WINE does). Probably not much of a
market for it, and I don't have that much spare time anymore.
- Dave
John Foust wrote:
Ah, I'm sorry... I missed the "for Mac" on that original post.
There are 680x0 emulators, right? But no good PowerPC emulators? At 08:00 AM 12/7/2011, David Riley wrote:
How does one run old Macintosh software under VMware? Man, I wish I could still run Word 5.1 for Mac on
modern machines. It's easily the best version they ever made, and possibly the best
word processor for the Mac.
You tried running it in a DOS emulator, and it didn't work?
There must be a dozen ways to skin that cat. VMware Fusion?
DOS in a VMware Player?