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

Fri Jan 4 17:49:33 CST 2008

I'm on 10.5 PPC and I have one program that I have to use for my job that only works on Windows or Classic. I didn't know about Classic dropping until after I installed Leopard. So I was hoping this might work. But the instructions are not clear how to use it in my situation.

Thanks,

Stuart
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Bill Davis" <bill.davis at gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:25:32 
To:sthiessen at passitonservices.org, "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Classic Support for Power PCs & inteltoo

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 <mailto: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
 <mailto:bill.davis at gmail.com> >

Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:03:34
To:"Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org <mailto: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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