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In order to accessВ software or digital files createdВ for obsolete systems, the primary solutions these days are emulation and virtualization вЂ“ two slightly different methods of, essentially, using software to trickВ a contemporaryВ computer into mimicking the behavior and limitations of otherВ hardware and/or operating systems. They could (and might still, if it comes to it) just bring the laptops to the site and run the software in the native environment, but thatвЂ™s unideal for a couple reasons: first, IвЂ™m always somewhat hesitant for department equipment to leave campus and second, having old hardware running these old operating systems natively is something of a luxury, which our students may very well not have in the future as equipment continues to age, or if they work at an institution with shallower pockets for digital preservation. However, the students would only have access to the digital materials on-site at the partner institution for this project, and could not bring the software back to NYU. Normally, this wouldnвЂ™t present much of an issue, asВ MIAPвЂ™s вЂњOld Media LabвЂќ still has several old Power Mac G4 desktops and even a couple Macbook laptopsВ running various early versions of Mac OSX.

Mac os x emulator pearpc mac osx#

Yes, as it turned out, the students were working with a piece of multimedia artwork/softwareВ that required a PowerPC version of Mac OSX (10.0 through 10.5) in order to run. Going back to the lab, I had a hint of what was coming from the whiteboard: Uh oh.

A couple weeks agoВ Mona Jimenez asked me to step into her course on Handling Complex Media, to help a student group with a tech request (business as usual).