Is it possible to obtain a copy of Snow Leopard, put it on a partioned or separate disk drive, obtain a copy of Version 5 of Filemaker and use it.

[Earley Man]

I'm certain that the answer to the above will be NO, but I know there are a lot of people on here who might just know the answer.

 

[zlinuk]

I use Parallels for virtualisation on my mac, works like a dream.

 

[Nikon f1.8]

I think I might have a Snow leopard CD lying around somewhere if that is any good to you.

 

[Ladybird12345]

I have snow leopard on my computer if there is a way of downloading it show me and I will send it to you

 

[Earley Man]

I think I might have a Snow leopard CD lying around somewhere if that is any good to you.

Hi Paul,

Thank you that would be brilliant. I'll happily cover your postage costs.

 

[Earley Man]

I have snow leopard on my computer if there is a way of downloading it show me and I will send it to you

Hi Ladybird,

Thank you for your kind offer, from memory it should be possible, however Paul has offered to send me an OEM disk if he can find it, so I'll take that option if he can find it.

 

[Nikon f1.8]

I will have a look today when I get a bit time.

 

[AZ6]

The most elegant solution would be creating a virtual machine that would host your snow leopard\file maker.

Relatively slow though. This may or may not be an issue though. I find it ok to run Windows 10 on my ancient Mac Pro.

I'd be interested in learning just how far back you can go with a new Mac, and older OS'. For eg; could you use Tiger (10.4) with a new iMac? What are we on now, 10.15??

Would the hardware not allow running of the older system? Quite frankly, I'd be happy running 10.7.5 on any new Mac, cos it would mean I could keep my Adobe apps running. Upgrading to a new Mac would be expensive to get my Photoshops etc back.