RIP, Classic Mac OS: 1984 - 2007
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 25th 2007 5:16PM
posted October 25th 2007 5:16PM
posted October 25th 2007 5:16PM
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And, of course, I misspell Dorling-Kindersley.
RIP
im sorry
you can put the blame on me
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Now I don't get your logic here. Boot Camp on a not-Intel-based Mac?
It woulld be nice if os 9 ran using parallels. 'course it would be pretty cool if mac os 9 or earlier could run on bootcamp
"Of course, Intel Macs have never been able to run Classic anyway, so only like Hypercard user groups and the three printshops still running QuarkXPress 4 and will be affected by this..."
Ummm... not so true. There are several genetic research tools that only run in OS 9 or below.
Then get new genetic research software, how cutting edge can your research be if your doing it on Pre OS9 systems
Mac OS 7 is the reason I went to windows. What a piece of shit operating system. At the time I was learning web design with PhotoShop 4 and Flash 4 on a Motorola Starmax. Win 98 on a beige box IBM blew it out of the water, and MS won my loyalty simply by not randomly crashing every 3-4 hours.
Only recently have I even bothered to consider Mac again, and I am pleased with OSX. I am a Flash programmer now.
"Check a vid of Steve's funeral after the break."
Engadget, you are going to send Apple's stock down on fake news again... ;-)
The local printshop still uses quark 4 which requires the school newspaper to use it also. I couldn't believe anyone still used it. The manual is unbelievably long for such a featureless program (seriously, it's longer than photoshop or indesign)
Does anyone else miss the Platinum Sound effects??
more than you know *pretends to cry*
There is a freeware app called "Classic Sounds" that installs all the Classic alert sounds into your OSX alerts, including Platinum Sound Effects.
Enjoy!
Who's up for a class action?
If only Microsoft would lay Windows to rest - the world would be a much better place.
'Lay it to rest'?
Are you serious? It needs to be taken out and /SHOT/.
There's a difference.
I'm no great admirer of present day Apple but I have lots of fond memories of using the Mac OS at school in the late eighties and early nineties.
As the man said this was the OS that brought us the GUI as we know it today. and to my taste looks a hell of a lot more functional than the stupidly over animated desktops you see on Vista, OS X and Compiz/Beryl etc.
You can turn compiz off and uninstall it at will.
But thanks for the mention. I just don't want to have to keep that fountain on my desk... or the aquarium... or multiple monitors...
Some, in fact, do find it quite functional.
my only sorrow is the tens and tens of pre-OS X games that I will no longer be able to play.
I wonder if there is way to export the Platinum sounds from Classic to OSX and use them as replacement system alerts? I think I could get them off of my old Quadra 700.... hmmm
Oh god i'm going to miss Power Pete so bad...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pete
At least I still have my old performa.
Not that hard to find an emulator like Basilisk or SheepSaver if you want to run old games. And Apple has all of the operating systems up to 7.5 for free on their download site.
SimCity 2000 and Oregon Trail, adieu! I admit I have strayed from my humble beginnings of you classic games but do not take it to heart. I will never forget unleashing aliens and fires on my metropolis' or my unwavering knack to have members of my party get dyssentary. So I propose a toast, to our childhood, and to the games that raised us right. I will miss all of you.
Wait a second, so this is what the OS was like in 84?
Wow, things haven't really changed much, and that is amazing for back then.
Sadly, I'm in one of those four printshops that was using OS9 on antiquated hardware. We just switched to 10 in the last two weeks, finally.
Omg! I am still using illustrator 8 in classic environment (of course I use CS2 also)
noooooooo, wtf how could it be that, Steve!
I got to rush to buy another HDD to install my Leopard there...I still want to keep my 10.4.....
Let me just say as a school computer tech support guy, "About freaking time!". Nothing worse than a teacher asking you to install something and the box says OS 8.6 or higher.
OK, you just scan through the posts and you manage to get a glimpse of only "a vid of Steve's funeral" and you start to think.....
:)
That screenshot makes me miss my Atari ST and its TOS/GEM...
I still got 2 Mac Plus and 2 Mac Classic's here working :)
Civilization II, Myst I, SimCity 2000, and, lest we forget, Marathon I, II, and III...
I'm strangely sad to see you guys go...
Too bad QuickTime VR Authoring Studio was never updated to run on OSX. It has features which none of the 3rd party panorama/object applications offer.
We just won't be upgrading to Leopard, I guess. Not that there's anything compelling about it anyway...
what? i won't be able to run royal flush (an awesome emulation of the classic 1976 pinball game)? no leopard for me. my imac g5 will be tiger forever.
My only question is: If you still have a mac old enough to boot into OS9, can you do that after installing Leopard? I understand killing classic, I never liked it anyway, but can it boot of it's on a different drive?
There were two old Mac game I used to play that I can't track down anymore, they were related.
One had a map of planets, and you flew from one to the other, conquering them.
The other game took place later, and was a game in which you were a trader, doing business between the different planets.
I can't remember the names, which sucks.
Both of those games sound like Escape Velocity to me. Maybe 2 different versions? There's an OS X version of it, and it rules.
Spaceward Ho! ?
GOOD! Now lets shoot this leopard and make a rug!
Don't be too sad. I'm sure there are plenty of older Macs out there still going strong. In the facility where I work I can think of two. One is serving up forms (FileMaker Pro version THREE) and the other runs a large combustion chamber with some software I don't remember the name of. Something like Daisy Tree? It was a competitor to Labtec/Labview in the 80s.
They do their job well and we have no plans to replace them.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that would be Finder 1.1 - it's still got the "Empty Folder" for you to duplicate (since they hadn't made a "new folder" menu command), but there's Font Mover before the crappy^B^B^B^B^B^Bvenerable Font/DA Mover, which was System 3.0 Finder 5.3, right?
I can't believe I still remember that stuff.
Apple stock is at $184.70. Hope someone here bought in back in 2003....I sure didn't.
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I've got nearly 20 years of work invested in Appleworks/Clarisworks Documents, and compatibility with iWorks is crude at best.
Am I going to abandon all that work because leopard doesn't have Classic?
What do you think?
Goodbye further Apple s/w and h/w purchases.
CCarlson
This was the third passing of Steve's Apple OS babies I have seen.
OS 6
OS 7(.5)
OS 9 (OS 8 was illegitimate, and NOT Steve's baby)
My first funeral....sniff***sniff
Extreme Disappointment!!
I did not upgrade all our Mac's to the Intel's because I still need to communicate with an AS400 for uploads and downloads vital to our existence. I see where classic has been causing more opportunities for troubleshooting lately, but is still essential to extracting information.
So much for being a pioneer and keeping classic going when it really needed it.
As much as I don't care for Steve Jobs, That's funny stuff.