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Would you consider running an emulator to keep using the original software?

In gaming this has become mainstream as GOG and Steam now leverage DOSBox for this purpose.

Personally I think vendors beyond a certain size should be regulated so they must maintain BC for some minimum period like 20y. Regressions should incur fines unless it's proven they are required for security fixes.

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I’m torn on this. For both apps I mentioned there is a reasonable path forward, it’s simply a matter of buying a newer version. But it really amounts to spending extra money to get functionality I’ve already paid for once, after all both of these programs are 100% complete and bug free relative to my requirements.

I’ve got a few GOG games and they’ve done an incredible packaging job with DOSBox - if there was a way to take an old PPC Mac app and package it up to run in a similar manner, I’d have probably taken a serious look at it back when Rosetta was discontinued.

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