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On 2/8/21 10:11 AM, Will Senn wrote:

> Anyhow, I have thoroughly enjoyed the Mac ride, but with Catalina, the ride got really bumpy 

The problem now is they have broken enough of the APIs that developers aren't willing to support old
useful releases. Even MAME has recently been forced to abandon support for perfectly functioning machines before
10.15 and I have no desire to purchase any Apple product capable of running that release.