rebeccmeister | (Reply)

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Having checked, I see that most of the distro's of weeping wounds *nix are also shifting to 64-bit clean, which is breaking things there too.

I'm also running a fruity, cat-themed OS to keep a lot of old code running. (Well, that and Orange's previous tower machine sucked mossy rocks.) So, a few things that have been on my mind:

1) Once their new towers ("pro" models) come out, I'm going to pick up one of the merely old ones. Unsurprisingly, second-hand computer dealers hung on to the installers for Orange's older OSs, so those will be installed.

It's also possible to sweet-talk Orange tech support into sending you a copy of their older OSs. I needed to do that once.

2) Older OSs can be dual-booted with newer ones, if it's just a few old programs used only occasionally.

or, 3) Older OSs can run under emulation/virtualization under newer ones. I'm already doing that for a few creaky versions of Doors to support even older software that was never written for Orange machines.

Just FWIW.

Edit: and Dried Mud Bricks has some new competitors, since we're not the only ones who see little need for subscription software. (I see some use for it, but not much.)