My wife the accountant prefers the older version of Quicken for our personal banking and finance There is information locked into that scrapbook file that I need to access a few times each week. Microsoft did not provide export capabilities. I also made heavy use of the scrapbook feature in Microsoft’s old Internet Explorer for Mac. It would not be economically feasible to hire a programmer to migrate these old databases to a newer version of 4D. I periodically need to look up information there. There are two old 4D databases containing transaction records for a closed down businesses.

However, I have two old applications that I must access from time to time. Since we have multiple iOS devices, I will want to run Lion to get the full iCloud capabilities. This will indeed be a big problem for me. I’d happily pay for a commercial update of Rosetta or maybe there is an opening in the market for someone to write a converter to take a PPC application and rewrite it as x86? With the improvements to hardware speed since the switch to Intel was made, it wouldn’t even have to be a particularly efficient conversion for legacy applications to run acceptably. I’ll update to Lion on my work iMac and Macbook but my shiny new i7 iMac that is my main home machine will remain at 10.6.x because I regularly play a certain multiplayer game from Blizzard that is PPC only and for which I’ve never managed to get the Windows version running properly in a virtual environment using any combination of Parallels, VMWare, Windows 7 and Windows XP. The lack of Rosetta in Lion is quite a problem for me. Since then I’ve bought regular updates to hardware and always updated software as new releases of OS X have appeared. I’ve been a happy Mac user pretty much as soon as OS X became available about 10 years ago.

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