Installing CloseView under OS X

I am a person with extremely low vision, and I have enjoyed a lot of success with email and Internet using an assistive technology screen magnifier called CloseView that came bundled in OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9. Now my old iMac is getting creaky and I'd like to buy a new Mac, but the new Mac not only does not have CloseView, it will not allow CloseView to run or be installed from a floppy. Instead, OS X offers Zoom as a screen magnifier. Zomm DOES NOT WORK. It renders magnified images of text that are far too fuzzy to be useful. CloseView renders magnified images that are sharp. So what am I to do. A brand new Mac, with Zoom instead of CloseView, is not usable by a low vision person like me. But my old Mac, with CloseView, is getting more and more outdated, with most things popping up that it cannot do, more documents it cannot open, more links it cannot manage. What am I to do? Does anyone know how to get the OS X to run CloseView?

Hi, riehles. CloseView can't run in OS X because it's designed to access and control your computer's video hardware directly, and such access is denied when OS X is running the computer. When OS X is active, it prevents any other software from accessing and controlling any of your hardware: OS X maintains total control. There are a good many games and a few other OS 9-based applications that are unusable in Classic mode for the same reason. Any program that, when running under straight OS 9, is able to reach out and adjust your hardware without recourse to a control panel, will find itself unable to do so in Classic mode. Well-behaved ones simply refuse to run in Classic; less mannerly ones will open but then quit unexpectedly, freeze, or force you to restart Classic mode itself.
Given your pressing need for a solution to the deficient (for your purposes) OS X Zoom feature, you've probably already tried adjusting the Contrast setting in the Universal Access > Seeing control panel. Increasing the contrast does increase the apparent sharpness of the displayed Zoomed image. Changing from color to greyscale also eliminates the color-fringing that I imagine could exacerbate apparent blurriness, depending upon the specific nature of your visual impairment. If you've experimented with these adjustments and still find the Zoom feature unsatisfactory, then I'm afraid all I can offer is sympathy — I don't know what else to suggest.

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