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any way to run OS9 programs on Intel Macs?
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I have a legacy program, "Generic CADD", which was originally designed to run on Mac OS 7, or 8, if you can believe it. It's a great program, and I've got tons of CADD drawings using it. The trouble is, the company's out of business (got bought out by AutoCAD), so there's no OS X version available.
My present G4 iMac can run the program in OS9 emulation mode. I understand the new Intel Macs don't offer OS9 emulation mode.
Is there any way to run OS9 on the new Intel Macs? Is there some kind of special emulation software available?
TIA
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Don't ever give up your iMac G4.
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PowerBook G4 17-inch 1GHz (March 2003)
iBook G4 12-inch 1.33GHz (July 2005)
iMac 20-inch 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo (January 2006)
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Originally Posted by BikerJonTN
Don't ever give up your iMac G4.
oh, ****. what I was afraid of. No better solution?
I'm surprised that there's no shareware or something to do it. I'd be willing to pay $$$ to get such software.
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awesome! I'll give it a try.
It amazes me that Apple would not be supporting this.
Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
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Originally Posted by powell789
I have a legacy program, "Generic CADD", which was originally designed to run on Mac OS 7, or 8, if you can believe it. It's a great program, and I've got tons of CADD drawings using it. The trouble is, the company's out of business (got bought out by AutoCAD), so there's no OS X version available.
My present G4 iMac can run the program in OS9 emulation mode. I understand the new Intel Macs don't offer OS9 emulation mode.
Just a clarification: Classic is not emulation. It's a virtual machine, but it's running natively on the PowerPC processor.
Sheepshaver is an emulator, as is Rosetta.
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Rosseta is not classed by Apple as an emulator. Its a dynamic translation layer that uses JIT (just in time) translation, as and when it is called for, and once a command has been translated, it will be cached, and if the command is called upon again, it will [often] be quicker.
Thats how I understand it anyway
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Originally Posted by powell789
I have a legacy program, ...Is there any way to run OS9 on the new Intel Macs? Is there some kind of special emulation software available? TIA
You can pick up a G3 or G4 tower on Craigslist for like $150~200 , G3 iMac for about $50~75....I gave one away recently a 400mhz ruby.
I'd say that's your best bet.
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Please keep in mind the ambiguously selective general understandings we've all agreed upon...
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Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
Rosseta is not classed by Apple as an emulator. Its a dynamic translation layer that uses JIT (just in time) translation, as and when it is called for, and once a command has been translated, it will be cached, and if the command is called upon again, it will [often] be quicker.
Thats how I understand it anyway
That's still emulation, as opposed to running natively.
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I think you should pick up/keep a PPC iMac around to run your old program. It's going to be the best route and will be faster than using an Intel Mac to emulate junk to make it work. In the long run it'll be faster and cheaper.
Besides, you have a G4 iMac. It may be worth money, but it is really quite a work of art. I'd keep it just for the artsy side of computing.
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