#Classic mode emulator mac mac os#

Now rules out software the is still useful but no longer in development. And the only applications that are going to do that are applications that are currently in developement. First of all there is going to be a period when all of your software is going to be changing from Classic to Carbon to Cocoa. I agree with you on one thing I would much rather run Carbon and Cocoa apps exclusively.

#Classic mode emulator mac mac os#

The whole subject of compatability is a fascinating one and though I will make sure the apps I use don't rely on the compability boxes, I think that Apple has gone above and beyond the call of duty with what they have offered end users in Mac OS X. That'd be impressive that they can now offer backwards compatability for customers since 1976 and might even be helpful for a few schools who still have to rely on old, out of date machines because they can't get decent software budgets even if they had hardware to upgrade.

I did have a great idea that Apple should port the emulator for the old Apple //gs to the Mac and have it run in a similar way to Classic ('green box?'). I don't want ANY app that isn't built upon carbon or cocoa and it'd be nice to have a way to keep from accidentally launching the Classic mode since I don't want the compatability and I don't want the performance hit. With that said, I'm not certain that I want to run Classic on my machine. It even went one step further than that and made the two share the same screen and some of the same interface elements. Apple has provided the API continuity for developers with Carbon (which is roughly akin to what Microsoft offered to get apps onto NT) and then they went one step beyond and offered the full older OS but placed in a nice little compatability cage so that it couldn't kill the other 'well behaved' apps on the system. Think of Classic as an 'above and beyond' sort of step. Since it's a matter of perception, I can't say that you should percieve it faster Obviously, if you think the Classic environment is too slow there's nothing that anyone can say to contradict this.