Photoshop..... help required desperately !!!!

[Tony1435]

I have been using Photoshop 7.0.1 on my Old iMac G4 Mac OS X 10.4.11. I have now bought a new imac 20" iMac OS X 10.5.3 and although it installs, it will not open and a message appears "An unexpected and unrecoverable problem has occurred because of a program error. Photoshop will now exit."
No explanation or help offered. I have tried downloading other versions but no success. Having now retired I use photoshop a lot to produce fun cards for the grandchildren and a Newsletter.
Can anyone help!!! I cannot afford to buy the latest version.
Desperate Tony

 

[Natobasso]

If I'm not mistaken PS7 is a Classic app. After Tiger, MacOS X no longer supports Classic.

7/9/08 edit: Actually it was released for both op systems: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/04/15.9.shtml

Make sure yours isn't for Classic. That's probably why it's not running on your new mac.

 

[Rhisiart]

PS 7 will not work on a new Intel Mac. You'll need to upgrade.

 

[Natobasso]

PS 7 will not work on a new Intel Mac. You'll need to upgrade.

Verification? Source?

 

[Rhisiart]

I bought an Intel Mac Mini last December. Installed PS7 and had exactly the same problems as Tony. I rang Adobe and they confirmed that PS7 will not work with new Intel Macs.

Illustrator 10 just wouldn't install.

 

[Natobasso]

That's more like it.