Well, I have some Copyist files trapped in a computer that needs a fresh copy of Windows 98 to reboot. I have all the data copied to Windows, and the program bombs after a few moves.
ajr ---- "David W. Fenton" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 May 2010 at 15:43, John Howell wrote: > > > And computer music > > files made 15 years ago can no longer be accessed > > and used by any modern computers as OSs evolve. > > Is this really true on Windows? > > I am surprised at the way Apple has handled OS X versioning. So far > as I can tell, if you break software between versions, it's not the > same OS version, but Apple still keeps incrementing the decimal > points and saying it's still OS X. > > The other surprising thing to me is that there isn't any emulation > software for OS X so you could run a VM and run your older version of > OS X in order to run the old software. > > I don't mean this as Apple bashing at all. It's more just an > observation of how things are, and that I'm surprised it works that > way. > > I'm also stunned every time I find out how backwardly compatible > Windows is, even with old, nonstandard software. I hesitate to cast > MS in the role of "good guy" here, but I don't know of any software > for DOS/Windows that postdates the introduction of the IBM PC that > cannot be run on current versions of Windows (Win7, for instance), > whether directly or in a VM. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
