Yo compacters everywhere, We have three significant improvements behind us in our effort to produce a Classic II that sort of imitates an iMac which we expect to begin using as our trainer teaching Mac basics up at the senior center.
At the suggestion of our Bob, aka: ELN/rlf9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I stripped all PPC code from our Classic II running OS 7.6.1. Stripped of PPC code from the System and Finder files and six applications, I recovered 21 MB of hard drive space. Yes, 21 MB! Simply amazing. It does boot a bit faster and run a bit smoother for this. Thank you Bob. Into this reclaimed hard drive space, I loaded The Print Shop Deluxe from the Broderbund CD. You will recall my tenuous niche issue and our want for having a card making application. My experience was that The Print Shop Deluxe wanted color and VGA to launch. Well, now and again one must carefully recheck every step of their work for unseen fault. I found mine. After I had initially gotten OS 7.6.1 and its enhancement softwares up and stable, I loaded application software from the external hard drive preconfigured with the software suite we load onto all of our 030 and 040 Macs here at the senior center. The Print Shop Deluxe on this external hard drive suite is the latest so used that. WRONG! We've an original The Print Shop Deluxe CD which clearly says it will run on the Classic II. Was it the OS 7.6.1 that was stopping me here? Or was it that I loaded the software onto the Classic II from a hard drive that had been configured in a color/VGA setup? Hmmm... So I SCSI'd a CD-ROM to the Classic II, popped in the Broderbund CD, booted, and clicked the installer. Yup, when connected to the Classic II, the installer installs a version of The Print Shop Deluxe that runs just fine on a Classic II. We have our card application. An obvious source of improvement in performance comes from none other than use of the Extensions Manager control panel. Until this stage, every extension and control panel including Virex has been enabled in order to look for operability, conflicts, and, yes, virii. That stage passed, I trimmed back the extensions and control panels to a set giving us the classroom experience we want. The boot time dropped from two minutes forty seconds to one minute ten seconds. All is stable, predictable, and works. We are about to go beta! Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
