Old programs?

I was poking around Ambrosia Software's site, and noticed a number of games that were marked as not being compatible with OS X. This got me thinking.

There've got to be lots of applications for Macs of years past that could still be useful today, but aren't OS X compatible. There must be demand to run them on newer computers, and where there's a will, there's a way. That's what I'm thinking, anyways... how do people run old apps?

 

Amborisasw.com?

all the games they show on there are os x compatable.

Edit:

just noticed the extended listings. Yeah, but those games are older than 10 years. I'm not sure if they can be run. Try googling the game name + os x. You may be able to do something similar to how you have to do weird stuff with classic games in xp.

 

PPC macs can run Classic software, but Intel Macs can't. I assume it wouldn't be that difficult to write an emulator that worked reasonably fast on today Core Duo/2 Duo Machines. Apple probably don't want to: they want programs to be written fo OS X instead.

 

It's not so much that I'm looking to play one of those games per se, rather, I think I might at some point want to muck around with old OS < X software. I know, on the Windows side, I've still got DOS games that I cherish and want to keep forever . In the case of Windows though, I've got VMs, DosBox, compatibility modes, and a rich pile of hacks. So, I was looking for a more generic answer as to how people run older stuff on OS X.

That's interesting Wooky. Any idea why or how that works (I'm assuming it works)?

 

It's called Classic, but as Wooky said, it is not supported on Intel Macs. I am sure you could find emulators that would do the trick for most of the games you would be interested in. As for any other type of apps, I doubt there is enough demand to run those anymore.