On 12.07.2002 21:20 Uhr, Peter Castine wrote >>> Even OS X, the biggest OS change >>> in the last 18 years, still lets a number of non-updated apps run. Shame >>> about the audio & MIDI, though. >> >> That is strictly speaking not correct. Anything that is not Carbon (ie >> Classic apps not updated for OS X) will not run in OS X directly. Full stop. >> You may be able to run it in Classic > > I was talking about Classic. > > Like 68k emulation on PPC, it allows old, non-updated programs to run. > > I didn't claim that it was fast, or pretty, or anything else. Just that > it handles backwards compatibility. And some engineers put in a > considerable bit of effort to make that backwards compatibility happen, > it didn't come for free.
I am not really enough of an expert to comment, but 68k emulation worked just a little different from how Classic works in OSX. You cannot run any non-carbon app under OS X directly, whereas 68k emulation worked without the user noticing anything (apart from slower speed). Classic has it's own desktop and appearance, I don't think this really counts as running old apps under OS X. Instead you run the old OS under OS X, and it really works much worse than I expected. For me this is not really an option, and until everything I need to run regularly will run under OS X I won't switch. And not surprisingly that currently comes down to Finale and very little else. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
