{"id":3372,"date":"2011-05-06T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2019-08-05T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:48:05","slug":"dropping-rosetta-and-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/dropping-rosetta-and-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping Rosetta and Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Neuburg<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now it was PowerPC that was emulated, using Rosetta. In Snow Leopard, the first Intel-only version of Mac OS X, Rosetta wasn’t installed by default; it would be downloaded and installed automatically the first time a PowerPC application launched, but the hand was already writing its ominous message on the wall. The rumor, which has become as loud as a roar, is that Mac OS X Lion will not support Rosetta. Snap!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As of this afternoon, PowerPC-only software that I had installed was:<\/p>\n

\n
AppleWorks<\/dt>\n
I don’t use it anymore, but I have lots of AppleWorks documents, as well as files from ClarisWorks 4, 5, and 6. From what I’ve read, it’s not a good idea to rely on Pages and Numbers to read the word processing and spreadsheet files, so I should probably convert these to Word and Excel format while I can still run AppleWorks. The data from AppleWorks databases can probably be saved as CSV, but I guess there’s no way to use it short of recreating the layouts in another database program.<\/dd>\n
Copilot<\/dt>\n
Presumably, FogCreek will have an update for this before Lion ships.<\/dd>\n
Eudora<\/dt>\n
I only have this for testing with SpamSieve. The plug-in will likely not be updated again, and in fact it was built with CodeWarrior, which I no longer have installed.<\/dd>\n
FrameMaker and FrameMaker+SGML<\/dt>\n
These only run in Classic, and unfortunately there are no other applications that understand their files. I suppose I should try to fire up Acrobat Distiller to convert the documents to PDF while my PowerBook still works.<\/dd>\n
Internet Explorer<\/dt>\n
It’s been a long time since I even used this to test pages.<\/dd>\n
RealOne Player<\/dt>\n
I can’t remember the last time I used this.<\/dd>\n
Web Confidential<\/dt>\n
I converted my files to 1Password a while ago. I do have one file with unknown contents and an unknown passphrase; at this point, I have no real need for it and will probably never get it open.<\/dd>\n
wget<\/dt>\n
This was easily updated by recompiling the source<\/a>.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

I suppose it goes without saying that the most future-proof old documents that I have are in Microsoft Office, LaTeX, and plain text formats. Annoyingly, Office 2011 warns about opening files with type\/creator codes but no extension, making me get at them through the Open dialog instead of by double-clicking or drag and drop.\n<\/p>\n

Update (2011-05-2): I found that, Office 2008 is much more reliable than Office 2011 at opening files from Word 5.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Neuburg: Now it was PowerPC that was emulated, using Rosetta. In Snow Leopard, the first Intel-only version of Mac OS X, Rosetta wasn’t installed by default; it would be downloaded and installed automatically the first time a PowerPC application launched, but the hand was already writing its ominous message on the wall. The rumor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-05T20:48:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"6dbf74d7-77b5-4d91-a35c-8b246dd60d5c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-05T20:48:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Abb9013e1TZGjXIskbdYNXA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1019,1027,1026,1857,1016,1020,1021,404,852,185,30,32,211,577,1024,1025,1023,1022],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appleworks","tag-clarisworks","tag-classic","tag-csv","tag-datacide","tag-eudora","tag-copilot","tag-framemaker","tag-internet-explorer","tag-latex","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-lion","tag-microsoft-office","tag-realone-player","tag-rosetta","tag-web-confidential","tag-wget"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/14932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}