#RUN A MAC CLASSIC EMULATOR ON MAC OS X FOR MAC OS#

It's kinda weird that PPC Macs can run 22 year-old apps while the Intel Macs are limited to 5 years, but that's progress I guess. For whatever reason, Apple decided to kill the Classic mode on Intel-based Macs.

Since I am theauthorof Atari800MacX, which is based on libSDL, it made it easy for me tomakea TRS80 xtrs port based on SDL, so it would run on Windows and Linux aswell as Mac OS X.Second, sdltrs provides a text menu based GUI, which is more userfriendly interface than the interfacextrs provides.

#RUN A MAC CLASSIC EMULATOR ON MAC OS X FOR MAC OS#

Only problem is a PPC-based Mac is a requirement. Several reasons.First, and foremost,there was no TRS-80 emulator available for Mac OS X.

However, I would strongly recommend you stick with Apple's Classic mode, as it has much better compatibility, and integrates (almost) seamlessly with OS X. If the System and Applications folders of a non-bootable version of Classic were placed in a disc image and used in a PowerMac emulator, would the image be able to successfully boot OS 9 on the emulator? However, I recall that Mac OS Classic supposedly can be copied entirely to another hard drive by copying the System and Applications folders. When it finally died I purchased a iBook G4 in Dec 2012 for 150 which will run Classic environment enabling me to accesss MacDraw, Claris Works, and many other old programs. Ever since 2003, Apple changed the firmware on their PowerPC machines so that they would no longer be able to boot the included Mac OS 9.2.2 naively. I had a Pismo (2000 PowerBook G3) for years which dual booted into OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.4.11.

Run a mac classic emulator on mac os x