RIP.)Īm I the only one who doesn't want to lose the ability to emulate an older Mac on a newer Mac? Granted, it won't adversely impact my life if we lose this connection to the past. see what I mean? (I've already lost the opportunity to copy the ROM from my Performa 476, my first Mac.
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So, if we get to the point where the original machines don't run, it will be hard to write/update emulation software for them, and if we need the ROM from our old Mac to emulate it, and it doesn't run anymore. What then? After all, emulation is partly about preserving history if no one thought that was important, we wouldn't have MAME. So I get my "emulation" by directly using an older Mac.īut I have this concern that, seeing as those emulators were never really 100% stable (or, frankly, even close to 100% stable AFAIK), we're going to get to the point where the Classic Macs (by which I mean PPC, pre-OS X) gradually stop running or can't be maintained any longer. Now, I personally am running a PPC Classic OS machine and a PPC OS X machine in addition to my MBP (well, duh, you can see that in my sig).
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The last versions of the two big Classic Mac emulators, Basilisk II and SheepShaver, were last updated in 2006 (August and May, respectively), so they obviously haven't been tested for compatibility with the newer Macs and versions of OS X. Now that 97% of everyone is on OS X (warning: made-up statistic!), many of them on Intel Macs, I don't see much talk about emulation. I realize that most people only needed to emulate the Classic OS from a newer Mac because the Classic environment wasn't fast enough or not compatible with some old Mac program.