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Feb 22, 2011 7:28 AM in response to a brodyby a brody,Oh here is the PDF creation software I was talking about:
http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html
I was wrong about the name, but this could help in your moving files back and forth. -
Feb 22, 2011 7:33 AM in response to a brodyby Tom in London,Yeah but copy/paste from an old file open on the older Mac, to a newer file in a different app on the new Mac? That's what I would need to do.
Anyway I'm still hoping it won't come to that and that either (a) Apple will show some understanding and hang on in there with Rosetta or (b) somebody will come up with the equivalent of Rosetta. It would be worth my while, for my business, to pay for a good emulator. A lot more worthwhile than **ing around with saving files into new formats and moving them from an old computer to a new one. Worth $1,000s, potentially. -
Feb 22, 2011 7:49 AM in response to Tom in Londonby a brody,Yeah but copy/paste from an old file open on the older Mac, to a newer file in a different app on the new Mac? That's what I would need to do.
The closest you'll come to that is Virtual Network Clients (VNC) They often support copy/pasting between machines. Apple has a Remote Desktop software that may work between PowerPC and Intel. People in this forum might be able to tell you if it is possible the way you want:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1007 -
Feb 22, 2011 9:59 AM in response to a brodyby Tom in London,Yes- this probably does the same thing:
http://tinyurl.com/4ztdlc3
(pretty lady not included in monthly rate)
But keeping Rosetta would be the best option -
Feb 22, 2011 11:57 PM in response to a brodyby Robert P2,(a brody): There is a software called PDF Creator for Mac OS 9 that at least will make anything you can print into a PDF that you can then move to Mac OS X over a network. Mac OS X networks with Mac OS 9 like this*:
http://www.macmaps.com/network9X.html
thanks a brody, I think you have missunderstood the problem, it's not an OS9 issue for me at least, I haven't used OS9 for years,
it's running a PPC version of OSX successfully that it the issue for me, Rosetta just isn't working that well any more,
Tiger 10.4 was the last rock solid PPC platform imho
I think I'll just have to buy a few G4 Mac minis on ebay, install new hard drives and keep them on the shelf for future use, not a terrible solution for now I guess but it would be nice to have other options using newer hardware going forward
for anyone that's interested, I'm a member of the Free Freehand campaign http://www.freefreehand.org/ -
Mar 1, 2011 6:38 PM in response to Allan Eckertby lkrupp,Allan Eckert wrote:
Could you please provide use with details about exactly what you find wrong or lacking with Rosetta? Maybe if you told us more, we might come up with solutions to help you.
Well I myself would like to know about an alternative to Rosetta since Rosetta is apparently history in the upcoming OS X Lion. Developer previews state that Rosetta will no longer be supported. So those of us who have some PPC apps, like Quicken 2007 for example, will be needing an alternative if we want to move to OS X Lion. We may be forced to run Leopard or Snow Leopard in virtual machines if we want to run PPC code.