Re: Sweet16 and G3 Macs

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 6, 5:40 pm, barana <baran...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 1, 12:38 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone with a G3 Mac available to try a test build of Sweet16? I think
> > > I figured out why the debugger was still trying to load up on G3
> > > systems, but still have no G3 to test on here.
> >
> > so sheppy, do u intend supporrting us users who can use 9.2
> > comfortably in small ram and cpu, now that you've axed 10.3.9 support?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by 9.2. I'm really unsure what you mean.

I read that as Mac OS 9.2.

I assume Bernie ][ the Rescue would still work, but is it available?

> Sweet16 hasn't supported 10.3 for years. It worked in 1.7.x, but I
> dropped 10.4 support early on while working on 2.0, including in the
> first public beta, which came out three years ago.
> 
> I'm tentatively planning to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 before
> long. There are some very neat things I want to do using OS X 10.5
> features, and can't until I drop 10.4 support. However, I plan to do a
> few more modest updates before that happens.

Sounds fine to me. I expect 10.4 to start rapidly declining in
popularity after Apple stops doing security updates for it (possibly as
soon as next month, after the release of 10.6).

Given the numbers at marketshare.hitslink.com, 10.4 seems to be in the
order of 21% of the total Mac market, while 10.5 is about 70% (and
climbing).

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz