On 7 December 2011 15:09, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 09:06 AM 12/7/2011, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
John Foust wrote:
At 08:00 AM 12/7/2011, David Riley wrote:
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?
How does one run old Macintosh software under VMware?
Ah, I'm sorry... ?I missed the "for Mac" on that original post.
There are 680x0 emulators, right? ?But no good PowerPC emulators?
I answered that bit, too. :-)
There is a PPC emulator, SheepShaver, but it's not quite up-to-date
enough to run the final versions of MacOS 9, i.e., 9.1 (last version
for NuBus machines, IIRC) or 9.2.2 (last ever version, for
NewWorld-ROM PCI Macs of G3 or above only).
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