Playing older projectors on new intel macs

hi
I recently got a new mac intel laptop and found that none of
my projector movies are supported by the system. This includes
pieces made between 1998 and 2006 on versions of director upto 8.5.
Actually a piece I finished in Febuary of this year is showing as
not supported!
Is all this work obselete now? Are there any third party
solutions to getting these works to still play - other than
watching them on an older computer. Or would they work if I
republished the movies from the source files with an uptodate
version of Director?
thanks in advance for any help
nick

quote:
Originally posted by:
Nick Crowe
...This includes pieces made between 1998 and 2006 on
versions of director upto 8.5. Actually a piece I finished in
Febuary of this year is showing as not supported!
nick
Did you mean to say "versions of Director AFTER 8.5"?
Director versions up to 8.5 were only capable of creating
projectors that ran in Mac OS 9.x or below. On recent Mac computers
running OSX, OS9 was able to be run in an emulation mode called
"Classic". Classic mode is not supported on the new Intel Macs. If
you use a later version of Director, you should be able to create
OSX versions of your projectors that are reported to work on the
newer systems (I don't have a machine to test). Of course you need
to make sure you have versions of any Xtras that will work properly
in OSX.
Hope that helps.
Hardin

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