# Older versions of Processing

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965 "2020-01-08T20:36:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![mortap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mortap](https://discourse.processing.org/u/mortap)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/1 "2020-01-08T20:36:40Z")

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I have an older Mac that is running Java 1.4, and I want to try out Processing on it. How do I get the right version?

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**Author:** ![hamoid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/hamoid/32/58_2.png) [@hamoid](https://discourse.processing.org/u/hamoid)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/2 "2020-01-09T09:24:26Z")

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Hi! Have you tried the older versions found at [https://processing.org/download/](https://processing.org/download/) ? The oldest version in that page is 1.5.1. Is that old enough?

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**Author:** ![mortap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mortap](https://discourse.processing.org/u/mortap)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/3 "2020-01-09T14:46:03Z")

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That one says I need Java 1.5.

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**Author:** ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/4 "2020-01-09T14:54:42Z")

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the releases go back

```auto
 on Aug 15, 2001
release-0003

```

> **[Releases · processing/processing](https://github.com/processing/processing/releases?after=processing-0006)**
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> Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE) - processing/processing

often the [previous][next] buttons are not seen

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> [@mortap](#):
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> That one says

???

now i can not speak about your operating system,  
but usually processing comes with its own JAVA so i am not sure your question applies.  
( like my sure more old Win 7 PC works perfect with newest processing 3.5.3  
also i like the idea that you want (re)use old hardware still a other budget option  
might be to buy a [Buy a Raspberry Pi – Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/) ,  
)

also see

> **[Supported Platforms](https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Supported-Platforms#mac-os-x)**
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> Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE) - processing/processing

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**Author:** ![mortap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mortap](https://discourse.processing.org/u/mortap)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/5 "2020-01-10T00:06:05Z")

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> [@kll](#):
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> now i can not speak about your operating system,  
> but usually processing comes with its own JAVA so i am not sure your question applies.

Here is the specific message:

![processingnotice](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/a/a3d5a91e1ed189dfcbe3feec778f1c337b1fa9ba.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![kll](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kll/32/964_2.png) [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/6 "2020-01-10T00:57:20Z")

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you mean? you get THAT when testing  
processing 1.5.1 ?

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> Starting with Processing 2.1, we are no longer using Apple’s (deprecated) version of Java and have switched to the Oracle release.

that means my remark  
that processing comes with its own JAVA  
might be valid for OSX only from \>= processing 2.1

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**Author:** ![mortap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mortap](https://discourse.processing.org/u/mortap)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/older-versions-of-processing/16965/7 "2020-01-10T16:40:02Z")

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Yep, that message was with Processing 1.5.1.

I went back to the 0135 release of Processing and got that to work. It is on an old powerPC running OS 10.4.11 Tiger.