Hi I'm New-Running OS8 Apps on OSX

[ellios2]

Hi,

I'm new to Macs, only had mine about 2 months. I've got a copy of Championship Manager 00/01 thats for OS8. Will I be able to run it on my Intel OSX machine or will I need some sort of emulator? I've already got Scumm VM to run Monkey Island so thats kept me occupied for a good while!

Thanks,

Steve.

[nixgeek]

Unfortunately, unless you have a PowerPC Mac you won't be able to run the older Classic applications (aka, applications that run in OS 9 and below). Only the PowerPC Macs were able to run the Classic environment for that purpose. Really, in retrospect the Classic environment was more of a transitionary thing considering the Apple-privately-projected Intel switch 6 years after Mac OS X was introduced. It was just a way of weaning people off of OS 9 and the applications so that they would be fully ready for the switch once it was made public. And their older Mac OS X applications would be fully supported under Rosetta in the Intel Macs, but not the Classic apps.

However, you can use something like SheepShaver to run an older version of Mac OS (9 and below) in an emulated PowerPC environment, similar to what Virtual PC does with Windows. Then you can run Classic apps from within that environment if need be.