Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 2005

...

Subject: Re: Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software
   From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
   Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:22:52 -0600
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
  What's
really water under the bridge is 16-bit mode in Windows.  Vista
doesn't support it, period.   Maybe someone will write a 16-bit emulator 
 PPC applications written for the G3 under Carbon. That means Classic apps
 -- including 68K apps -- will probably die in the future. 
What bothers me is:  How hard is it to include an emulator?  Who cares if the 
emulator is 100x as slow as the real thing when you're running it on a machine 
that is capable of running OS X or Windows Vista?
--  
Jim,

It's real hard when the vendor(s) want you to buy office suite 2007 or 
whatever.   Till someone (not a vendor) gets the emulator written the 
rest of will run it on classic hardware and software.

"The only way to win the game is to not play."

Allison