siren7400
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Q: Why was classic environment disabled?

I'm a basic Mac user and I have a small collection of fantastic older games for Mac that I'd love to play – but I can't, as the classic environment has been disabled in newer software OS10. This is so disappointing because the emulators on the web are overly complicated to install, if not almost impossible; especially for a basic user like me. From what I hear on the web, Apple won't be releasing any commercial software to emulate the classic environment as there is not enough of a market for it. But from what I have observed, there are plenty of others like myself who would love an easy-to-install software that allows classic mode to be used on newer Apple software. I'd pay for it of course!

 

I'd really like to get an understanding of why classic environment has been 'disabled' in new software? Why Apple? WHY? I'm sure there must be a good reason...

Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8), classic environment

Posted on May 10, 2013 10:34 PM

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  • by christopher rigby1,

    christopher rigby1 christopher rigby1 Mar 12, 2016 8:43 AM in response to Bearlyalive
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    Mar 12, 2016 8:43 AM in response to Bearlyalive

    If you go to the Emaculation website, you will probably encounter people in their forums who are setting it up (or trying to..) for Elmer Capitan. It does run in Yosemite, and on my Core i5 iMac, in Snow Leopard. Here I run Sheepshaver - Mac OS 8.6 - which opens in a window with the resolution I decided on, and where I can run software such as ClarisWorks 3 and 5, FileMaker 2 and 4, Photoshop 2.5 LE (euwww) among others. Oh, and games I'd given up on years ago.

     

    Yes, it still comes up from time to time with that awful black bomb, or freezes, but you just Force Quit Sheepshaver in OS X  and relaunch it and nothing in OS X is affected. It's just another app as far as OS X is concerned. But as far as Sheepshaver is concerned, it really is OS 8.6 running in its own window.

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