Optimizing the Classic environment

Apr 13, '01 12:00:58PM

Contributed by: Sparky

[Editor's note: Read the following if you're interested in making your Classic environment work as quickly as possible under OS X ... Sparky has some solid thoughts on how to make Classic work better, and I'm sure there are others that could be added to the list.]

ok, since I did several things at once, any one of them could have helped or the combination. What happened is that Classic software that used to take 8 or 9 bounces to start now bounces once and opens immediately! woohoo!

[Read the rest of the article for a step-by-step description of what Sparky changed in Classic...]

Things Sparky changed:

  1. booted from Classic's system 9.1 folder (I have it alone on its own partition).
  2. went into control panels and toggled Appletalk OFF.
  3. Went into apple menu options and toggled OFF hierarchical menus, as well as turning OFF remembering any recent documents, apps, or servers.
  4. Went into extension manager and duplicated the 9.1 all set, and only added ATM 4.6.1.
  5. restarted, and REMOVED the entries of all fonts from known font sets...re-added them back in.
  6. Booted from OSX and rebuilt the classic desktop from within OSX system prefs/classic controls.
  7. Ran xoptimize to prebind while classic was up.
  8. Booted from OSX CD and ran disk utility to repair both my OSX partition (now on an HFS+ partition due to good advice I found elsewhere) and my classic partition.
Rebooted, and WHOAAAA.... the speed increase is phenomenal now!

Now, when I open up freehand, for example, which used to take 8 or 9 "bounces", it bounces up once, down once, and immediately enters the splash screen for starting up. Photoshop 5.5 starts even faster now in classic than it does under a normal 9.1 volume.

I just wanted to let you guys know. woohoo!

Sparky the wonderpig

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