You've just "got" to love some of those
old Apple file formats :^( One of
my chief reasons for buying my first Mac in 1995 was to run ClarisDraw.
Guess when the last version of ClarisDraw was released. Granted I'm still
able to run my copy on my G5 2x2 running Mac OS X 10.3.3, but it's the
*only* thing that can read all my files :^(
This is something that greatly amuses me about OS X Classic: it seems the
older the application, the more compatible with Classic it is. System 6
apps run happily on my 10.2.8 dual G4, and yet a 8.6+ game of Shogo which
needs Apple OpenGL freezes at the title screen and requires me to force-quit
Classic.
I've been playing ZeroGravity, this System 6 game I played to death on my
best friend's dad's Mac Plus, on this dual G4, and other than the fact the
sound doesn't work (not too surprising), the game plays 100%. In fact,
even though I played it on an 8MHz 68000, on twin 1.25GHz G4s, the game
is still at a playable speed (a nice bonus, but seemingly paradoxical).
I also use an old copy of Caere OmniPage with my dual G4, which is 6.0.8
era, simply because it's faster OCR than any other package I possess or
have access to (I'm willing to put up with its finickiness about how it
wants the TIFF files because it works so well).
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