[X4U] "Backwards Compatibility"

[Zane H. Healy]

At 6:38 AM -0500 6/19/08, Linda wrote:
>On 6/19/08 2:21 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>  would you purchase a
>>  commercially produced (ideally by Apple) emulator that would let you
>>  continue to run that program?  Specifically an emulator which fit in
>>  with a modern Intel based Mac running 10.5 at least as well as
>>  Virtual PC did?  I know I would.
>
>Yes. I would. I hope they keep improving SheepShaver...

I would love to see a commercial and supported version of 
SheepShaver.  Yes, I realize it used to be a commercial product on 
BeOS, and I believe its predecessor was a commercial application 
running on the Amiga.

One would think there are enough of us out there that such a product 
would be commercially viable.

As it stands, I plan on moving ClarisDraw and 6 or 7 other apps that 
don't have modern equivalents to SheepShaver once I feel 10.5 is 
stable enough.  Three of the apps I wrote myself back in the System 
7.5 days, and couldn't port to Mac OS X without massive rewrites 
(which I don't have time to do), one of these hasn't run right since 
Mac OS 8 was released.

Zane


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