Bea writes,
<Yersinia,
Do I understand that you use different applications for System 9 and
X, or
put another way, that some applications work only in one or the other?>
Well, up until I just got this Quicksilver a couple of months ago, I
didn't use OS X at all. I was running a G3 Beige on OS 9.2.2. So
everything I've done since my first Mac in 1995 (I started with a
Performa 475, OS 7.5.x, then moved to a 7200/120 top OS 8.1, and then I
got the Beige which I ran on 9.1 for awhile, then up to 9.2.2)) was with
all these "legacy" apps. When I first started using OS X, I was not only
totally unfamilar with any native OS X apps (and pleasantly shocked as
all hell to see how well Classic ran my legacy apps!). Well, I was not
only happy with my old apps (mostly, more in a moment), but I obviously
had years and years worth of data (not including my email and CE!), but I
didn't WANT to change them. You know the old saw, "if it ain't broke,
don't fix it"? I'm a very firm believer in that one. The only area of
computing which I really felt needed improving, performance-wise, on OS
9 was web browsing, which was usually horribly slow. I blamed most of
that on my dialup connection, but Safari on OS X took the pain out of it
-- and I'm still on the same dialup connection I had on the Beige! Don't
ask how, but it did. But, that was my ONLY area of complaint prior to
getting OS X.
So, I do all my browsing in Tiger now, with Safari. OS X wouldn't run my
chat programs in Classic either, so I downloaded OS X versions of them (I
use IRCle for IRC and AIM for instant messaging).
The only one of my OS 9 apps that actually has a serious problem in
Classic Mode is my Sims game, but only in very particular circumstances.
For normal play, it's actually running better with Tiger than when I'm
booted in 9, but if I need to make one of my sims change clothes, or if I
want to create a new sim, I have to boot in 9 because in X, the graphics
are all screwed up: I can't see what the sim is trying on, or I can't see
the sim I'm trying to create: it's like the view is "blocked and broken
up." Hard to describe, but this is why I absolutely need to boot in 9
occasionally now -- it's impossible to do either of these things in X.
So -- the only OS X native apps I use at all (short of Dashboard and the
Dictionary) are in fact Safari and the OS X versions of AIM and IRCle.
For all else, I run my old apps in Classic Mode.
Do I make more sense now? :-)
~Yersinia.
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