MacBook Pro backwards compatible?
MacBook Pro backwards compatible?
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- evilpeacock1
The best way to run legacy software with peace-of-mind — pretty much forever — is virtualization. Set it up once and just move it as you upgrade to new machines. My fav is VMWare Fusion which is totally affordable and allows virtualizing Snow Leopard on up. It's upgraded annually but you don't always need to stay current.
Virtualization can be taken to "Inception level" extremes; If you virtualize Snow Leopard Server you can also run PPC and even OS9 software — SL Server is the last MacOS version that had built-in emulation for PPC and below.
For years I've kept a virtual machine around with old versions of Adobe, Freehand, etc. for converting old formats back-and-forth.
- i like the sound of that - i have an old g4 running os9 for fontographer, and snow leopard / cs3 is unbeatablehans_glib