Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
Yeah, but that's not my problem.Not that I want to sound like a complete Mac fanboy, but the possibility of Mac os from 2017 working on an M1 mac with completely different architecture is kind of a stretch request. You can still buy any new Intel Mac if you want to run older software. Even an older mac used. Heck, my computer I'm typing on right now is running 10.13.
I understand that even Windows 11 can run on a 1Ghz celeron with 4GB of ram but come on. Shouldn't we be excited about technology advances?
My problem is when they do in-processor upgrades to the OS that break APIs, such that the program I've been happily using for a decade, which is not only abandoned, but *it's author is dead* -- it is not *getting* any more upgrades -- gratuitously stops working.
So my choices are "give it its own machine with an old enough OS, and pray nothing eats it", or "throw it out and replace it with... well, there's nothing to replace it with, is there now?"
This actually applied to QLab -- 3 would read 2, but 4 will not, and I had a bunch of stuff in 2 that, well, isn't *useless*, but I can't get to it now *because gratuitous OS upgrades won't let 2 run anymore... and possibly 3; I think I've been pinning my OSs so as not to break QLab3.
And *I make a living as an IT pro*, I can't imagine how this version skew stuff imposed on users by Apple not really caring anymore* affects people who are just LDs and SDs.
[ * they *used* to care; when they dumped 68K and PowerPC, those old apps ran for a *really long time* in emulation; that's a large part of why users were so devoted to them. They cared. ]