Tinderbox runs on all modern Macintosh computers.
From v11.5.0, Tinderbox requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or later.
Note that not all features run old the older supported OS versions, especially those using AI and Machine Learning techniques. There is a list of such features.
The pre-v6 app design was designed for the PowerPC, so used Rosetta to run on Intel CPUs. Rosetta was included in Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) and dropped after Mac OS Lion (10.6). Thefore using an Mac OS 10.7+, precluded further use of Tinderbox v1.x through v5.x
Legacy
These are older requirements (older requirements via the Internet Archive):
- v9.5.0+, Tinderbox requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later.
- v9.0.0 runs on macOS Big Sur (11.x), Catalina (10.15) and Mojave (10.14) and High Sierra (10.13).
- v8.5.0 runs on Sierra (10.12), El Capitan (10.11) and Yosemite (10.10)
- v6.x/7.x runs on Mavericks (10.9) or later.
- MacOS 10.7 drops Rosetta support needed to run pre-v6 versions of Tinderbox.
- v5.12.2 supported Lion (10.7).
- v5.10.2 required Snow Leopard (10.6) or later.
- v5.0.0 recommended Tiger (10.4), Leopard (20.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6)
- v4.2.5 recommended Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (20.5).
- v4.0.0 recommended Tiger (10.4).
- v3.5.0 recommended Tiger (10.4). (Classic support dropped?)
- v3.0.0 recommended Tiger (10.4+) or Classic 9.2.
- v2.5.0 recommended Panther (10.3+) or Classic 9.2, but required Tiger (10.4) for some features.
- v2.3.4 recommended Panther (10.3+) or Classic 9.2.
- v2.0.0 XML file format of TBX files updated, older files autoupdated.
- v1.2.2 recommended Jaguar (10.2.1+) or Classic 9.2.
- v1.2.1 recommended Jaguar (10.2) and required Classic 9+.
- v1.1.4 adds OS X support (or classic System 8.6+).
- v1.1.1 recommended Classic System v8.6+. OS X not yet supported (c. June 2002).
- v1.1.0 first version to support OS X, then Puma (10.1).
- At launch, Classic System v8.5+ was recommended.
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