Using OS 9 or X?
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sheepguy42
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Personally, I only use X. I love it; and Classic is a pain. Anything I need to do I can do in X. My little sister is the only one in my house who uses classic: she likes to play a lot of older games that will never make it to X. The only game I truly miss is Tetris Max (EV with the Star Wars ANA plugin was also friggin' awesome, but maybe someone will do a similar plugin for EV Nova), and that was stopped being deveoped long before X. I wish I could get a copy of the source, and maybe make it Carbon. That would be soooooo cool!! It was the best Tetris game I ever played . . . . and now it is gone
. Oh well, if I ever set up my old Performa, maybe I will make it a game machine: EV (the first one), Tetris Max, and SimCity 2000. Now that I have gotten way off-topic, lets see some more replies to this poll!
. Oh well, if I ever set up my old Performa, maybe I will make it a game machine: EV (the first one), Tetris Max, and SimCity 2000. Now that I have gotten way off-topic, lets see some more replies to this poll!
chemistry_geek
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I use Mac OS X for 99.5% of my uses: I have Mac Office X, Quake 3 Arena (OS X vesion), VueScan X for scanning, AOL IM, Mozilla for cruising the web, BBEdit Lite for OS X for serious text editing, and X48 (Hewlett Packard 48GX calculator emulator). The ONLY reason I ever use classic is for chemistry drawing programs. One is not available for OS X, and the other and much better one is, but costs too much to upgrade. CambridgeSoft wants FULL PRICE for a 6 --> 7 upgrade. NO WAY! I don't have $500 (educational discount) laying around.
chemistry_geek
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VueScan (http://www.hamrick.com/) is a sharware scanner application that works with many scanners. It was the only software that would allow me to scan in Mac OS X and is one of the best programs I've ever used. Once you start scanning, you can go about your business doing other things since it doesn't hog the CPU cycles. Plus, it's feature-rich. It works with film scanner too for scanning negatives and slides in addition to flatbed scanners. I highly recommend this program to anyone with a flatbed scanner with which the software works. You can download it and try before you buy. It has better software algorithms for image quality than the software that HP included with my Mac OS 9 drivers. Well worth the $40.00.
just the other day i reformated my system drive and did a osx only install, and man it runs like a dream... the only thing i was using classic for was resedit, and now that vuescan works (sorta) i can do anything i want osx only and it feels so good.
its just better...
its just better...
deagle five o
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not to burst anyone's bubble, but the truth is that most Mac users still use os 9. My school has a huge mac lab with over 200 quicksilver G4s, all running os 9, my ex-girlfriend still uses os 9, my father has an TiBook he keeps running os 9 with... sorry but its just frustrating.
Koelling
I Think Different
True true. Didn't Steve say at the last Macworld conference that only like 10% had switched over to X.Originally posted by deagle five o
not to burst anyone's bubble, but the truth is that most Mac users still use os 9. My school has a huge mac lab with over 200 quicksilver G4s, all running os 9, my ex-girlfriend still uses os 9, my father has an TiBook he keeps running os 9 with... sorry but its just frustrating.
I for one have not used classic application for over a month, and it's only when I want to play Risk II. I have not booted into Classic since I ripped out the old hard drive and installed this new one over 6 months ago.