If you have a modern Mac running OSX you can forget about playing Amber on the Mac. The Classic environment is not supported anymore, so you can't run OS9 software on the Mac anymore. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I fell into that trap once. You can run Windows on modern Intel Macs of course, but I guess you know that.
Edit: I see you joined in 2005 and the above is your first post?! Amazing! I would have forgotten my password long ago. I'm impressed
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