Mac os 10.3.9 emulation in 10.4 or later.

I have a program that runs in 10.3.9, but was not written to run in later os 10.4 etc. I cant upgrade my mac to run all the other software that will work in 10.4 and must keep this mac as a dedicated machine for this one program. Anyone hav a fix or idea of how to run this program within 10.4?Thanks.

Hi, rtiste, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Install OS X 10.3.9 on an external FireWire hard drive or a second partition on your internal drive, and boot into it instead of 10.4.x when you need to run the program in question.

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