I am fed up with Apples’s march towards IOS for the desktop.
I am seriously thinking about reverting to the last truly Apple OS
Would I have any serious problems with XOJO?
Gerd
I am fed up with Apples’s march towards IOS for the desktop.
I am seriously thinking about reverting to the last truly Apple OS
Would I have any serious problems with XOJO?
Gerd
The current version requires 10.7+. If you go back a few versions (you will have to look back through release notes and system requirements) you will be able to use Xojo (but unable to develop for iOS or utilize the new framework).
Cocoa won’t work on 10.6. Also, if your Mac came with OS 10.x you can’t install 10.x - 1. So you need really old hardware.
Cocoa won't work on 10.6.
Odd…
Im writing on a Mavericks machine using RB 2012 to edit
Compiling Cocoa apps in Xojo2013 to keep 10.6 compatibility, and the builds work fine in 10.6 so far as I hear.
Which bit of Cocoa doesn’t like 10.6?
The last Xojo version to support compiling for OS X 10.6 was 2013 R3.3, and it does compile for Cocoa too.
At least for my application Cocoa was instable as heck. I don’t remember what was crashing. Drawing related mybe? But always hard crashes and not possible to fix.
Nothing beats 0S 9
Sure: OS 6. Those were the days.
I was able to run Mavericks on my 2014-11-25 MacBook Pro. (that is 10.x - 1).
An error Ive done, but it booted.
Note: that was very true all these years ago.
[quote=171119:@Emile Schwarz]I was able to run Mavericks on my 2014-11-25 MacBook Pro. (that is 10.x - 1).
An error Ive done, but it booted…[/quote]
It certainly should. The original OS for this Mac was OS X 10.9.4 aka Mavericks.
To me System 7 was the first civilized one that let one install fonts without Font/DA MOver.
I remember the days when you needed to remember two version numbers: one for the file System and one for Finder. Your System Folder could have these two files alone and still boot!
[quote=171119:@Emile Schwarz]I was able to run Mavericks on my 2014-11-25 MacBook Pro. (that is 10.x - 1).
An error Ive done, but it booted.
Note: that was very true all these years ago.[/quote]
you’re still very far from 10.6 !
10.6 does run on some 2011 hardware even though it was sold with later versions; I looked into this at some length.
I have a mid 2011 Mac Mini, and it runs Snow Leopard with ease after copying across one additional file that is not installed by default. I remember there was a lot of discussion about Lion in its early versions; a lot of folks didn’t like it, myself included.
One of the key things that made the process a whole lot easier was to obtain a set of 10.6.6 install discs, in my case anyway. The 10.6.6 versions never made it to retail; they were provided with a couple of the iMacs around that time, just before the switch to Lion. You can find these on eBay though.
IIRC, I made a USB installer of the 10.6.6 install disc, made a small change to a text file that simply told it to skip the hardware check, and everything worked after that. Once the install was complete and the system rebooted, I added one small configuration file and that was it. It worked like a dream after that.
The process is possible with the retail 10.6.3 disc as well, and the process was the same I think.
I too miss Snow Leopard. Its my favourite of all the OSX versions over recent years.
I simply use an external USB hardest, partitioned it into several partitions, and installed the systems I want on it. Then I booted from each and set it up as I want (with all the current updates and some essential freeware/extensions/plugins/etc as well).
If I want to install a certain system then I boot from that system, install any system updates that might have come out (as well as any newer versions of the installed software), and then simply clone it onto the computer.