On Apr 20, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Anand Keathley wrote:
Oh Great and Mighty OZ!
Oops!
Ok, hi everybody. I'm thinking with the new Macs unable to boot into OS 9 there will be a greater desire to translate some older programs. Can a G5 even use Classic?
yes, it runs classic just fine, it just doesn't boot into OS9.
Anyway, I believe the process of adding something (plug-in?) to an OS 9 program so it can be used in OS X is called "carbonizing."
This is actually a process of checking the code for any needed rewrites (some calls need to be changed in older programs.) adding the needed resources that OS X wants, then recompiling the program against the carbon libraries. For this you need the source code for the program.
Where can one learn how to do this? I'm thinking specifically about apps "Outlook Express," for OS 9, which is free, compared to "Entourage" for OS X which is not.
You cannot do this to programs you do not have the source code for.
It's both a simple and not a simple process.
When the revised OS X with the Carbon API's (application programming interface) was demoed at a macworld or maybe it was WWDC, steve Jobs called up someone from adobe who demonstrated Photoshop 6 running in OS X native; they claimed they 'carbonized' the entire application in a weekend.
Then the rat bas*ards made us wait well over a *year* for Photoshop 7, before we got an OSX version.
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