I'm pissed off that I still have to dual-boot,
- Darcy
So am I, but it's Apple I'm pissed at. Long after FinMac2K4 is on my machine, I will still have to dual-boot because of my numerous files created in (and still printed from) versions as early as FinMac3.2. OSX is a nice piece of whiz-bangery, but we didn't *need* it
Afraid I'm going to have to strenuously disagree with you there, Andrew. The old Mac OS was great in its day, but it had been stretched far beyond its time. Preemptive multitasking, protected memory, long filenames, a true multi-user environment, the rock-solid BSD subsystem, 64-bit support -- this isn't mere whiz-bangery, these changes were absolutely necessary to make the OS competitive with Windows and UNIX alternatives. The UNIX core alone has opened up Apple to huge new scientific and enterprise markets that would never in a million years have considered Macs based on the old OS.
*YOU* may not need (or think you need) this stuff, but it's ridiculous to dismiss OS X as mere eye candy given these huge under-the-hood changes.
As for dropping support for old software, this is just an unfortunate fact of life, but this situation has been long before OS X was introduced. Most OS 6 apps wouldn't run in OS 8, many OS 7 apps wouldn't run in OS 9, etc. Finale was an exception simply because its Mac code was so woefully out of date -- and we've seen the problems *that* has caused.
[And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is true to a certain extent -- perhaps not as much -- on the other side of the aisle? Does WinXP run every piece of Win95 software flawlessly? How about Win 3.1 software? What about DOS support?]
But it's not like you don't have options. Others have pointed out that Classic is actually improving in its ability to run older software, including Finale. You may lack MIDI support in pre-Fin2000 versions (I don't know, I haven't tried), but you can still run Finale, edit and print going back to at least Fin 3.5. (Have you even tried Fin 3.2 in Panther's Classic?) Sure, it's not as fast or as reliable as rebooting into OS 9, but it's still an option. You can also covert these Finale 3.2 files to Fin2003 (or, hopefully soon, Fin2004) files and deal with making the necessary changes. Sure, that can be a big job (although Finale's conversion of old files is awfully good these days), but if these files must remain editable, you're going to have to break down and do it *sometime.* Otherwise, you could just accept that these files are frozen, like engraver's plates -- just make PDFs and be done with them.
I realize these may not be attractive options, but it's not Apple's or OS X's fault. This is something you would have had to deal with no matter what, even if OS X *hadn't* been a complete overhaul. At a certain point, any current OS is going to have trouble running software written 10+ years ago.
- Darcy
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