Article:		The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X -- Part 2
Subject:		Hooked on OS X (Bad Thing)
Date:		2001-05-08 22:27:18
From:		derrick
Response to: Hooked on OS X (Bad Thing)
I certainly have empathy for your situation and can understand your frustration. Personally, I haven't had the same bad experience with Classic. The applications I use in that environment are different than yours however -- Photoshop 6, Entourage 2001, Word 2001, and BBEdit 5.1. If your hardware is current, and you initialize your hard drive with the latest Mac OS X drivers, you should be on pretty solid ground. I'd like to hear from more folks about their Classic experience. Any detailed information you can include would be helpful ...

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• Classic experience.
  2001-05-11 12:22:42  tz [Reply | View]
  
  
  I had to go through a bit of effort to check which extensions were on. Most seem to do the right thing, but a few conflicted with the environment. I can't say exactly what you need or not, but I think removing extensions for special hardware generally helps things. And I remember reading that Conflict Catcher had or has a technote or something about this.
  
  I use it for RealPlayer 8 - this works very well, and have used Photoshop 5LE, without any problems (Omniweb launches IE 5 on realmedia links, so cut-paste helps; IE 5 can't play realmedia and won't launch realplayer). Of course now that I have GIMP running I will probably use that instead of Photoshop.
  
  Almost everything else I might want to use under OS 9.1 requires real OS 9.1 since it involves hardware like a scanner that doesn't have an OS X driver.
  
  OTOH, I wonder if it would be useful to port MOL (mac on linux) to Darwin/OSX and run a virtualized alternate screen. Some things might work better.