![]() Apple Legacy Software Recovery CD For Macintosh 68030 or 68040-based systems This Mac OS 7.6.1 bootable CD is Apple Legacy Recovery disc dated from fall 1999 and what makes it valuable is that it includes almost every system software for the early Macintosh models, Lisa computers and Apple II models. Software for Vintage and Obsolete Computers If you are using an old operating system or computer which is no longer supported by Apple, you might still find software products for your Mac here. In some cases, we even develop new or updated software products targeted to old systems. Please use the following, alphabetically sorted list of applications to find the software product you may be looking for. Note that these applications must not be used on up-to-date versions of macOS. Those operating systems were unknown at the time the software was developed, so technical conflicts could arise that might result in data loss. Most programs have an internal safety feature which prevents you from using them with incompatible operating systems. Application Version Release Date For the Operating Systems Download Hardware Monitor 4.99 December 5, 2016 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.7 Lion OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion OS X 10.9 Mavericks on Macs released between August 2002 and November 2012. Mojave introduces a new feature in its bundled tool System Information: in the Software section is a list of Legacy Software. According to Apple’s: “If you’re using macOS Mojave, select Legacy Software in the sidebar to see all applications that have not been updated to use 64-bit processes.” Only what you’ll see in Legacy Software is far from complete, and thoroughly misleading. On my iMac, that is all that it lists: fourteen apps out of several hundred which are installed. Compare that list with the details in Applications, where a great many more apps are listed with “No” to their being 64-bit. Here’s one, for example, Nisus Thesaurus, and several old apps from Nikon. When I run my 32-bitCheck tool, free from Downloads above, it finds a total of 339 apps and components which are 32-bit only, out of 1425 discovered in my Applications folder. Whatever Apple’s list of Legacy Software means, it doesn’t tell you which of your apps are 32-bit only and won’t be fully compatible with macOS 10.15. Neither do the alerts which Mojave displays when you open a 32-bit app for the first time, as they appear only for apps which are being put through full Gatekeeper checks because they have just been downloaded from the internet. Those 32-bit apps which you already have installed don’t get put through those checks, so never result in that warning. I’m disappointed that Mojave doesn’t provide any better tool for identifying what needs to be replaced over the next year or so. But you should be able to rely on 32-bitCheck, at least. (Corrected to read Legacy Software, which makes this even more disappointing, as that should include more than just applications.). Thank you: how appropriate! I can’t make any sense of what this shows – it just seems to be a random (small) selection of 32-bit only apps. Perhaps the least helpful thing Apple could offer. The other side of this is that, in Mojave, it is these relatively minor details which are getting noticed. In High Sierra, we were too busy coping with major blunders at this stage to look at the detail. I actually felt happier with Mojave beta 9 and later than 10.13.6, and 10.14 release seems rock-solid and almost complete. I don’t agree. Macs have been thoroughly 64-bit for some years now, and I cannot understand anyone who has stuck to 32-bit development over that period without thinking that maybe they should modernise to 64-bit. It’s not a question of risk, it’s a matter of the overhead to support 32-bit apps – it’s a waste. We don’t know whether Apple will supply a bundled virtual machine in which to run such legacy software, but you should be able to do so in VMWare, for example. My only recent 32-bit apps are from the major software houses like Microsoft and Adobe, who have had no excuse at all.
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