Open old Mac files on my new Mac

I have a new MacBook Pro and I want to open various files I have stored on CD from my old Mac Centris 650. None of them will open on the MacBook because it just doesn't recognize them - they aren't corrupt. How can I open these files? Most are images (Pict, Tiff, EPS). Thanks, Jer

You say the files have been stored on CDs. Have you copied them to your MBP's hard drive before trying to rename and open them, or are you trying to rename them on the CDs? The latter won't work, because the CDs are read-only.
There are scores of applications that can open .jpg and .tif files, but if Preview won't open them, it's not very likely that anything else will either, until the problem with the files themselves is identified and solved.
Is it possible that what you stored on the CDs is aliases to the files, rather than the files themselves? Do the files' icons have little curved arrows in their lower left corners?
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