I understand that you are facing an issue with MATLAB 8.3 (R2014a) not working on MAC OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and would wish to know what are the other options that you have from MATLAB that would work on MAC Yosemite.
First of all, please note that MATLAB R2014a has been tested to work successfully on the following versions of MAC OS:
Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Mac OS X 10.7.4+ (Lion)
This information has been provided at the following web link:
Therefore MATLAB R2014a has not been tested on MAC OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and the results may not be as expected.
However, MATLAB 8.4 (R2014b) has been tested to work on MAC OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and this can be found out at the following web link:
MathWorks publishes a platform road map for IT planning purposes for releases of Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and select Linux distributions. The road map can be found at the following web link:
Disclaimer: The road map reflects the current plans of MathWorks and is subject to change without notice.
