[xia]

I am sure that this has been discussed before... Is there anyway to run the OS 9 software on a new Intel-based machine running say 10.5?

I have one piece of software under OS 9, which has no replacement and the original company has been bought twice. At the moment I have it on my PB G4 running OS 10.4.11, which is great and is all I want. But my old PBG4 is dying and I need to get a new laptop. If I down-grade the pre-installed OS 10.5 on my new laptop into 10.4, will the old software be working? How about partition the new hard drive into two and make one runs on older system?

Many thanks!

yx

[Maflynn]

There's no real solution other then sheepshaver and I've found that to be problematic and buggy

[CharlesS]

Even if you could downgrade a brand new Intel Mac to 10.4 (which isn't possible AFAIK), it still would not be able to run Classic, since Classic is PPC-only.

Pretty much your only choice is to keep an old Mac around - unfortunately, old Macs eventually die, as you have discovered. There is SheepShaver, but it's IMO not really stable enough for actual work stuff, although if you get the latest build from here it'll be a lot more stable than the latest official build, which is over two years old.

[xia]

And I assume that a second partition won't work?

Many thanks!

y

[CharlesS]

If it has an Intel processor in it, it's not going to be running any Mac OS Classic software outside of an emulator such as SheepShaver or Basilisk.

[xia]

Thanks, CharlesS.

[JKT]

What's the software? Someone here might know of an OS X equivalent.

[xia]

It was initially called Spyglass Transform, and later Noesys Transform. The original company has been bought out several times. The current owner is ITT, who also sale Envi and IDL.

Transform is an image analysis software (under OS 9) for binary (scientific) data, similar to ImageJ. But the truly unique feature of Transform is once you open a raw data, it shows the binary data in a text window. You can generate an image from the data. Anywhere you click on the image (a point or a region), the relevant data point or region (the original numbers) gets highlighted. As far as I know, no other software let you examine BOTH raw data and image at the SAME time. I talked to ITT people a year or two ago when Transform was still listed as 'for sale as it is'. But they want to sell me Envi.

If you know a workaround or a replacement, I am truly grateful.

[JKT]

Beyond my experience I'm afraid. I'll assume that you have done a Google search but this thread turned up for me when I looked for Noesys Transform:

http://forum.soft32.com/mac/Substitu...pict16682.html

It suggests two apps, Igor and OpenDX as alternatives to Transform that are native on OS X. Whether or not they are capable of the feature you have described, I have no idea.

[Gavin]

If they have a windows version you can run it with parallels or Fusion.

or you could leave your old mac under a desk just for this and access it with VNC.