Article:		The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X -- Part 2
Subject:		Hooked on OS X (Bad Thing)
Date:		2001-05-08 17:33:30
From:		crazysapsucker
I got a little carried away with the idea of OS X and waited eagerly for its arrival. The day it came out I anxiously installed the "world's most advanced operating" system without much consideration. I was thrilled by what I saw! No more crashing, no more mp3's skipping because I happened to be scrolling down a text field. Here's the problem: I am an active web site designer and video editor. Obviously, Final Cut Pro 2 doesn't work in OS X, but not even applications like Macromedia Fireworks run that well - in fact they run horribly. But I couln't bear to let go of OS X! It was everything I ever wanted in an operating system. I finally decided to boot from OS 9.1; I was shocked by what i saw. All the Type/Creator idata of my files was lost. Things were almost badn in the native OS 9 environment as they were in the OS X classic environment. When I run Microsoft Word in both the classic and native OS 9 environments it is unable to save. I love apple but I think the classic environment is a joke, I have yet to find an application that runs for more than 5 minutes without serious errors or crashing. And even booting from OS 9 has problems. OS X is absolutely perfect for running OS X apps - but that's it. Good article...

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• Hooked on OS X (Bad Thing) - Classic Story
  2001-05-10 13:50:22  jthwaites [View]
  
  
  I already posted something about this. I'm really dull.
  
  Classic must go, it can't be too soon. It sounds like a good thing, it should be a good thing, surely it's a good thing. No, it isn't.
  
  Dual-boot works. Perfectly. Classic doesn't.
  
  I was a fan (hey, be nice to me) of IBM OS/2. The most embarrassing thing about it was its Windows 3.1 "box". I kept on having to explain to people why this couldn't be as good as Windows 3.1. Oops. They just bought Windows 3.1 instead.
  
  Classic makes OS X a problem child. I keep trying to make the flippin' thing work with all my apps. It won't. I have to dual boot anyway. Therefore, Classic is zero-value. Get rid of it, now!
• Hooked on OS X (Bad Thing) - Classic Story
  2004-11-28 19:37:57  just2me [View]
  
  
  Hi,
  I cannot upgrade my iMac G3 running on OS 9.2.2 to Mac OS X 10.3.5
  It cannot startup the OS from the CD.
  
  Is it bcos the upgrade path is wrong?
  Must I upgrade to 10.1 1st?
  
  thanks!
  Nick
  

• Hooked on OS X (Bad Thing)
  2001-05-08 22:27:18  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  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 ...
• Classic experience.
  2001-05-11 12:22:42  tz [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.