Classic Software That works/doesn't work

[mschemen]

Here is a list of applications and games that work/don't work for me:

Works:
SoftWindows
Photoshop
Painter Classic
Kai Phot Soup
Quicken

CodeWarrior

CloseCombat
Diablo
TombRaider (Software Renderer only)
Total Annialoation
Myth
Myth II
Dark Forces
Card Shop
StarCraft
SNES
Vritual Gameboy (No Rave)
Every Kids game worked

Speedometer
Zipit
BBEdit

Doesn't work:
IBM ViaVioce
Iomega Tools
Word
PowerPoint

Unreal (Black screen)
Unreal Tournament (Black screen)
Mechwarrior 2
Warcraft
Bugdom (Black Screen)
Nansours (Black Screen)
Rainbow 6
Decent
Heros III (can't find CD)

[j79]

Woohoo!
I thought maybe I was the only one who couldn't get Iomega to work... =)

Add Macromedia Dreamweaver to the files that don't work.
It attempts to load, BUT, it locks up on a javascript load error something like thatl.

[Isando]

I have Dreamweaver 3, and it does load up fine for me. I have been using it extensively in Classic mode, and am actually quite pleased with the performance, however I think the html editor included with OS X is very good too, and I plan to use it instead.
Im on a G4 400 with 128MB ram.

[eucci]

softwindows works? wow. i wonder about Virtual PC. (I have a beige G3 as my main machine at work, with a windows 2000 machine next to it that is seldom used except for a couple of old IIS specific sites that are still needed on rare occasion. I'm getting rid of that machine though and replacing the G3 with a G4, but still need to access Windows on rare occasions. If Mac OS X PB will let me do that, it'll be a happy day).

As for Dreamweaver: Some pictures I saw of Seybold showed Dreamweaver in Mac OS X with the full Aqua interface. I don't know when\if\how big commercial applications like that will be distributed during the Public Beta cycle. Some smaller shops, especially long-time Openstep shops like Stone Design have some great tools available today that are truely Mac OS X ready. (and it's been my experience so far that Cocoa apps have been faster than Carbon apps -- i think there's more debug code in Carbon which is probably still being heavily refined).

Thanks for the list of working\not working apps.

[hudson9]

Virtual PC does not work. I got an email from Connectix sayng they plan to support Virtual PC under OS X sometime in the future but for now it will not run in CLASSIC mode.

[xmanxman]

I've been running Word from Office 98 pretty extensively and it works fine under classic for me.

Eudora and Photoshop both work well for me too. Actually, I've had a lot more stability with my classic apps than my OS X apps- especially Explorer!

Morris

[stiber]

Originally posted by mschemen
Here is a list of applications and games that work/don't work for me:

Works:
[stuff deleted]
Quicken

Which version? Quicken 2000 hangs (itself and the Classic environment) on launch for me (Beige G3/266 w/320MB RAM).

[joel]

Originally posted by stiber

Which version? Quicken 2000 hangs (itself and the Classic environment) on launch for me (Beige G3/266 w/320MB RAM).

Quicken 2001 crashed in Classic when I tried upgrading a '98 data file. I then upgraded the file while booted into 9.0.4 which worked. I then opened the file successfully under Classic but crashed it when I selected an account in the account list. Gave up after that.