In article <13r6p0645i47o1b@corp.supernews.com>, bobg@radix.net (Robert Grumbine) wrote: > In article <6QEsj.2586$YL3.1943@trndny05>, > OughtFour <luster@rnospam.com> wrote: > > > >"Gerry" <everyday@sunrise.net> wrote in message > >news:everyday-DA7F39.14082410022008@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net... > >> > >> The FAQ is well out of date. As an example Reunion is now version 9.06 > >> and was last updated in November 2007. > > > >And Gene is a Classic application, no longer supported on newer macs. (But > >it's a wonderful program! I suppose there are OS 9 emulators out there some > >place.) > > Any version of OS X through 10.4 can launch classic applications. > Starting with 10.5 (current release), you lose that capability. (I'm > setting up a 10.4-bootable partition on my system to preserve my 1980s legacy > stuff while I continue to move it to more recent formats and softwares. > I still miss WingZ, which was lost in the 68000 -> powermac transition > in ?8.) A minor caveat to the above: this is true only on PPC systems, since Intel systems have never been able to use Classic, and it's true only if the user actually installed Classic -- it's not a default option. -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama