Al Poulin writes,
Maybe I missed something in earlier messages, but I'm curious. Do you
do something in Panther that you cannot do in Tiger?
Yes. I only have ONE use for Panther (for which I previously was using
OS 9 until it stopped booting on my G4). When I'm booted in Tiger (which
is 99% of the time), my Sims game graphics in the Create-a-Sim, wardrobe
and pet screens are totally FUBAR. I don't use those screens on a
frequent basis, but when I need them, I need them -- UNBOLLOXED.
This is a known problem that happens on Tiger from 10.4.3 up -- so I've
had it since getting my G4 in September 2006, which came with Tiger
10.4.7 on it (and which I had also upgraded to 10.4.9 which is where
it's staying). Apple doesn't care about this problem and neither does
Aspyr, the company who ported the Sims for Mac -- they didn't at the
time 10.4.3 came out and the problem was current, and presently, all
support for Sims 1 is long gone (it's not even sold anymore, anyone who
wants to buy the original Sims game now has to buy used at this point).
So when I found myself on 10.4.7 and needed those screens, I used to
just boot into OS 9, fire up the game for long enough to make the
changes I wanted, then go back to playing in Tiger (it plays very well
in Tiger: this graphics bolloxing on the G4 is the ONLY issue).
Unfortunately, my G4 stopped booting in OS 9 last year after some
upgrades to the video card and RAM, so I couldn't do that anymore, and a
year of NEVER being able to boot the game in 9 to get around the
graphics bollox was driving me completely up the wall, to the point
where I seriously considered a full downgrade of my G4 to Panther
10.3.9. My Tiger install DVD is 10.4.3 and I had no idea how to
archive-reinstall with that and then downgrade to 10.4.2 so I'm stuck
with the Sims graphics-FUBARing version of Tiger and in that case may as
well keep 10.4.9. Finally (about 2 weeks ago) it occurred to me that I
didn't have to downgrade my whole G4 to Panther, all I had to do was
install Panther on that one hard drive which used to be my OS 9 boot drive.
So last week I received the Panther disks I bought from the Swap List, I
nuked-and-paved the old OS 9 drive installed the Panther, put my data
back on (which includes my Sims games: I play with two installations). I
booted the G4 in Panther, fired up one of my games under Panther and
VOILA -- problem solved: those screens look normal again! :-D Knowing
that the Panther install CDs I bought were 10.3.2, while waiting for the
order to come in, I downloaded the 10.3.9 Combo Updater, but...haven't
seen the need to install it. 10.3.2 worked well enough for my purposes.
The only time I need to boot the G4 in Panther (as was the case when I
was booting it in OS 9) is when I want to create a new sim, or have my
existing sims change clothes or adopt pets. Everything else I do on my
G4, Sims and otherwise, can be done in Tiger, so that's where I am most
of the time. Now included.
While installing Panther fixed my Sims graphics problem, alas it kicked
off the unacceptable behavior of my Claris Emailer on the G4. I had just
more or less gotten used to the idea that I couln't use CE on the iBook
(it's been two months since that happened), but when it got weird on the
G4 I got scared and felt I had to change emailers to something OS X
native before it's too late and I lose everything. It was crucial to
me to be able to CONTINUE The Collection, not just archive it somewhere
and start anew with the new email client, so that's why the migration
was such a big deal. Thankfully, it worked.
~Yersinia.
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