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native mac os 8 and 9 applications could only be run under rosetta. they could be rebuilt to run under cocoa.
by greenknight 5y ago
native mac os 8 and 9 applications could only be run under rosetta. they could be rebuilt to run under cocoa.
- mattl 5y agoThey required some Carbonization. Also then would run under Classic or Carbon. Rosetta was for Cocoa I think.
- rvense 5y agoRosetta was a PowerPC CPU emulator that allowed running any kind of PowerPC OS X application on Intel Macs. Carbon was a set of largely OS 9 compatible APIs that allowed an easy transition for apps that could be recompiled. Classic was a virtualized OS 9 environment available on OS X (up to 10.4 Tiger, PPC Mac only) that allowed running unmodified binaries for pre-OS X Macs. Most things that didn't require special hardware access or precise timing ran fine, but things like real-time audio and MIDI applications did not.
- sharikous 5y agoNot Rosetta, Classic