Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever
This isn&#x27;t quite the same thing, but can I talk about something related?<p>For the past month, I&#x27;ve been on a bit of a quest to downgrade my my life to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, which came out in 2013. It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve wanted to do for years, for a variety of personal reasons, and it should be able to do everything I need.<p>My primary issue has not been software compatibility per se, but actually obtaining the software I need. The trial version of NetNewsWire 4 looks beautiful on my Mavericks install, but I can&#x27;t buy a license key because BlackPixel no longer sells them. Ditto for Scapple, and Day One, and Parallels, and many others.<p>I had to hunt through the Internet Archive to find the last compatible versions of Intel Power Gadget and Kaleidoscope. I had to manually download and test each version to figure out where they dropped compatibility.<p>These are all fully offline apps, so there&#x27;s no reason I shouldn&#x27;t be able to buy and download old versions. I&#x27;m not asking for support or development time—I totally expect to be on my own—but please, developers, just give me a way to obtain what you previously created.