Classic Environment documents and Leopard

I am running Tiger on a non-dual-core iMac G5. I have about 300 documents that I created in Classic Environment. I am told that Leopard does not support Classic. I would like to upgrade to
Leopard. (Also, some day I will replace this Mac with a dual core Mac; I am told
dual core does not support Classic.) So how can I upgrade to Tiger now (and later, to dual core) and still use these documents? Details: I originally created these in an old G4, using an old, wonderful Apple word processing program called Greatworks. I migrated them over to my G5. I have opened a handful of them in the G5; they opened in TextEdit. Then, I copied them from TextEdit to Appleworks. So that gave me an Appleworks document. So does that mean that the documents are no longer Classic?...are they now cool and modern, and Tiger will open them, even though they were ONCE Classic? And a dual core mac will open them some day? Also...as I said, I only converted a handful from Classic to Appleworks. The rest of the 300 are still Classic. So I guess BEFORE I upgrade to Tiger, I must convert the rest of them to Appleworks, one at a time? Please help. Thank you.
Robert

Documents are neither "Classic" or "OSX". Documents are files.
The application that you use to create, edit, print, and save are either "Classic" or "OSX".
So your files, even if created in OS8, could be moved to 10.5.2 and opened w/o any girations on your part to make it work. BUT the application that created it in OS8, or OS9 would have to have been updated to work as an OSX application to do so.
In your case, it sounds like they are basic text docs anyway. If TextEdit can open them, you might try just opening them directly with AppleWorks. You won't be able to just double click them for this to work, but open Appleworks, then from there, go to File>Open and navigate to one of your older OS9 docs, and see what happens.
In the end, you may indeed need to go thru the Text Edit step, but it's work a try to try to bypass this step.
Past all of THAT, Appleworks is EOL.... end of life, and someday soon, Appleworks may not work with the next iteration of Mac OSX. You should check out the new Pages.... it's new and will be supported longer than Appleworks for sure, so your documents will last longer.
At work I have a PowerPC Quad G5, and it runs Classic mode just fine under 10.4, so Classic is not a dual processor issue. However, *no Intel Mac* will run Classic, period.

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