Us oldtimers can relate this to the 680x0-PPC transition in the mid-1990s. The same rule applied, with the only exception being in the educational software market (they probably did this so that those who had fleets of LC 5xx machines could still use them).
Does anyone know if the new Office coming out is Intel-only? Microsoft has a long history of releasing software that only works on current machines--Office 95 required Windows 95 and when they finally upgraded the wretched Word 6/Office 4.2 they came out with the PPC-only Office 98 even though 680x0-based PowerBook 190s and Performa 630s were on the market two years prior to that.
On the subject of Cosmic Osmo--I saw Spelunx is now on Gametap, so if you have the hardware and the subscription, you can check it out! It looks to be the colour version, which has always been rare. Now there's no more need to check eBay every two hours to see if some random copy of Spelunx makes its way on--it rarely if ever does!
Does anyone know if the new Office coming out is Intel-only? Microsoft has a long history of releasing software that only works on current machines--Office 95 required Windows 95 and when they finally upgraded the wretched Word 6/Office 4.2 they came out with the PPC-only Office 98 even though 680x0-based PowerBook 190s and Performa 630s were on the market two years prior to that.
On the subject of Cosmic Osmo--I saw Spelunx is now on Gametap, so if you have the hardware and the subscription, you can check it out! It looks to be the colour version, which has always been rare. Now there's no more need to check eBay every two hours to see if some random copy of Spelunx makes its way on--it rarely if ever does!