[DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Classic Support for Power PCs & inteltoo

[Bill Davis]

My mistake.  I'd forgotten that they dropped Classic support in
10.5(Leopard).  I probably forgot because I haven't cared about
Classic in about
3-4 years....  But if you have 10.0 thru 10.4 (Tiger) and are running a
PowerPC chip then you can run most Classic apps inside OS X, you just need
to install Mac OS 9.

The only reason you need a Mac emulator like SheepShaver or Basilik or
PearPC or vMac is if:

- You're running an Intel mac
- or you're under 10.5 (Intel or PowerPC)
- or you have some really old Mac OS 9 or earlier app that won't work right
under Classic.
- or you're not running on a Mac at all (which is why Basilik and
SheepShaver and such were mostly created).

>From the earlier part of the conversation it sounded like people were saying
you needed SheepShaver to run Classic apps on PowerPC.  Not true; only under
10.5 would you need that.

 - Bill


On 1/4/08, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org> wrote:
>
> Leopard doesn't allow OS9 to work. As of last I checked.
>
> Stuart
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Bill Davis" <bill.davis at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:03:34
> To:"Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Classic Support for Power PCs &
> intel
>        too
>
>
> Is there something available that will allow me to use
> >Classic apps on a PowerBook G4 and PowerPC IMac G5? Thanks in
> >advance!
> Eh?NOTHING extrais needed to let you run Classic Apps on PowerPC. It's
> built into all version of OS X from 10.0 to 10.5. You just have to install
> Mac OS 9, and if you have a machine that will run OS 9 at all then it was
> provided with your machine (I think). At worst you might have to get a copy
> of Mac OS 9 from someone in the MUG or from Apple. If you need some earlier
> version of Mac OS (1-8) then you'd probably have to use something like
> Sheepshaver or another Mac emulator,since I don't think the built in Classic
> support in OS X supports Classic Mac OS versions before 9.x (9.2 I think).
>
> By the way, there's a further deliniation; are you talking about 680x0
> processor apps, or PowerPC processor apps under Classic?
>
> Out of curiosity, What do you need to run under Classic, anyway? I haven't
> used Classic at all in years. I don't think I even started it more than once
> or twice on my PowerPC G4 laptop, replaced over a year ago.
>
> - Bill
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