I haven't upgraded to Leopard, yet, but hope to do so in the near future. However, I see in these fora that Classic is no longer supported in 10.5. This is a shame. I have applications (some from the Pre-Power PC 68020 days!) that still work just fine under classic (Cricket Graph is one, SuperPaint is another), and whose functions and ease of use have not been duplicated since they were killed off. I can't believe I'm the only one who can say this.
I know software must evolve, but it's still kind of a shame to see worthy stuff discarded while still useful. Therefore, I find myself wondering what it would take (perhaps in the open-source community) to keep Classic working. Heck, I'd even consider buying it as a separate app, if it were available that way.
Emulators have long been used for keeping old software alive, and Classic is a pretty good one.
For the time being, I'm going to have to try to put 10.4.10 on an external drive before I upgrade my main drive to 10.5, and that may be troublesome. I've usually had poor luck with CCCloner making bootable clones; it claims to do so, but I've seldom been able to actually boot from one.
T. M. DeBoni
tomdeboni@mac.com
I know software must evolve, but it's still kind of a shame to see worthy stuff discarded while still useful. Therefore, I find myself wondering what it would take (perhaps in the open-source community) to keep Classic working. Heck, I'd even consider buying it as a separate app, if it were available that way.
Emulators have long been used for keeping old software alive, and Classic is a pretty good one.
For the time being, I'm going to have to try to put 10.4.10 on an external drive before I upgrade my main drive to 10.5, and that may be troublesome. I've usually had poor luck with CCCloner making bootable clones; it claims to do so, but I've seldom been able to actually boot from one.
T. M. DeBoni
tomdeboni@mac.com
