I have a program I must run which is pre-Power Mac and is supposed to run on a 68040 machine such as the Quadra 650. However, our last Quadra has given its last breath, I think. I seem to remember that when the first Power Macs came out, there were non-compatible programs that would not run on them, and until the Power Mac versions came out, Apple or someone offered a patch or kludge that allowed you to run older programs on the newer Macs. Does anyone remember this and can you possibly point me to a version of this antique?
OS 9 running in Classic mode under OS X can still run 68K code. Any Mac OS on a PPC machine will run 68K code. Not all 68K programs will run on PPCs or under certain OS versions but this is usually due to the program not being well written.
The one problem I could see is that the 68K emulation on PPCs reported the processor to be a 68020 so if the code has to have a 68040 you might be stuck.
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