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How often do you use Classic?
1/1: How often do you use Classic?
Other polls | 2,485 votes | 39 comments
The only reason I ever use Classic anymore...
...is to play older games that I still love (especially Fox Sci-Fi Pinball). If it weren't for certain games, I'd never run Classic anymore; just about everything I need to do on a practical level can be done in Carbon or Cocoa apps, or from the command line.
The only reason I ever use Classic anymore...
Only reason I use it is for Puke-XPress.
Only use for Scanner
Heidelberg Linoscan 1200, a very (very) slow USB scanner with the crappy distinction of being the only Heidelberg scanner with no OS X support...
Only use for Scanner
Have you tried Vuescan? Worked on my then unsupported Canon scanner, and claims to work on thousands of others. Download through Versiontracker or Macupdate.
Only use for Scanner
AMEN! You stole my line!
Never used Classic (intentionally)
The only times I've ever used classic has been by accident. The early carbon builds of Yahoo Messenger would launch URLs incorrectly, bringing up the OS9 version of Internet Explorer, unless I already had the OSX version of Internet Explorer running.
classic? what's that?
I got my TiBook the morning before Jaguar was released; it's actually never run anything other than 10.2.
exit
I trashed it since 10.2 was running on my powerbook G3.
Outlook!
Oh how I long for the promised native Exchange functionality. (Too bad it means we also need to upgrade our mail server to Exchange 2000.)
I don't use but kids do.
They just have to have the Sim games.
The Sims
The Sims IS carbon now. Has been for a while.
I don't use but kids do.
Nick's right:
No more Entourage!
I waited around using Classic just long enough for Jaguar to come out... then for iCal to not be inherently buggy (now it's just explicitly annoying) and iSync to get out of a beta that wouldn't thrash my hard drive. Now OS 9 and Entourage are all but forgotten... But I don't have to use Microsoft daily any more!
Classic
I still use it constantly - my genealogy programme is not yet OSX friendly.
Classic
At work:
Still required
As much as I'd like to get rid of Classic, it's still required because there are apps that aren't available OSX-native. I almost get the feeling that carbon should have been pushed much harder (maybe even required it) before OS X so that more apps would be compatible.
Don't even have it
When I re-installed Jaguar about 3 weeks ago, I didn't even install Classic. So while I still have a Classic item in System Preferences, it just tells me I don't have any 9.1 System Folders for Classic. Before re-install, I never used it so that's why I got rid of it.
No More Classic
After installing 10.1 when it first came out, I rarely bothered with Classic. January 2002 I moved Classic & most of its components out ready to be trashed, and in March I deleted it all. When I installed Jaguar, I didn't even bother with System 9 drivers.
I recently bought GriffTax online (Cdn Tax Software) made for the Mac. I tried opening the installer and nothing happened. Apparently it is for Classic only and they couldn't believe me when I said I had no way of using it. Over two years of OS X availability and they have not moved over yet. Why are companies like this waiting so long to make the move? As for the scanner keeping Classic, doesn't VueScan support your scanner? Pete
Games
Like most who still use classic, there are a couple of older games I like to play. Back when I first bought my Powermac 733, I bought quite a few cheap games with it, to tide me over until my free OS X CD arrived. :) (I believe it was 10.0.3). I really should repartition at some point, so OS X can have some of the OS 9 real-estate......
No more classic
I've been using macs all my life, so of course I've used Classic, but I don't any more. I keep it on the computer simply in case it's ever needed, but I don't use it. If I accidentally try to open an OS 9 program, I force-quit Classic before it finishes starting up. I never want to have to use it again.
sayonara classic
I haven't had classic installed on any of my machines in over a year. When I bought my current DP867 MDD machine end of last year the first thing I did with it was delete all traces of classic... Good riddance to it ;)
Still have a need for classic
It's amazing but I still find Hypercard useful and my wife can only use her Umax scanner in Photoshop under classic.
Still have a need for classic - kind of
Theres Quark 4.1 & 5, but I'm starting to use InDesign more, it doesnt 'move' like Quark did though, when Quark 6 hits shelves I'll go back...
Still have a need for classic
Sane is currently available under fink unstable; sane (and the 'xsane' program), supports a bunch of UMAX scanners. I'm thinking it will be released with the next stable fink release.
Virtual Game Station...
...is the only thing I boot into Classic for.
Otherwise I only use classic to run Old Games for my kids - especially the Humongous Entertainment stuff.
Virtual Game Station...
My children's games almost always crash unless I reboot in OS 9? Is this
OCR
A remaining need I have for Classic is OCR. The free OmniPage that's bundled with scanners works great in Classic. My infrequent need for OCR doesn't balance out the expense of a native OCR program. I would love to have a good solution to native OCR!
reason was distiller, but now I use ghostscript
The only reason I've used classic for the last year is for Acrobat Distiller, since native Mac OS X pdfs are much bigger than Mac OS X postscript distilled into pdf.
Oh no - I have to re-install Classic!
I know a while ago I stated that I got rid of System 9 last year. After having mulled it over though, I am re-installing it.
I want to re-partition the hard drive, since my original set-up isn't very good (3x40gig's!) I want 20 gigs for X, 5 gigs for a possible swap, 40 gigs for my home partition and then a couple back-up type partitions. I don't need 120 gig's, but as that old saying goes - bigger is better. Since I am re-initializing the drives, I'm plunking down the System 9 drivers, so I can put in System 9.2.1. I have been waiting (along with everyone else!) forever for DiskWarrior to come out with a version for X, now Jaguar. They aren't - so I am now forced to do this. Presently, I am having a few minor problems which DiskWarrior can solve. My old cd I made for DW has System 9.0.4 on it, which can't see my hard drive in Jaguar. I hope everyone applauds my determination (slow 26,400 dialup with Apple's 76 meg combo updater downloaded overnight!) in doing this, as I am quite certain a week or two from now will see DW for X released! Pete
Oh no - I have to re-install Classic!
Alsoft are taking pre-orders for a OS X DiskWarrior for existing
Oh no - I have to re-install Classic!
Thanks - I surfed in and ordered it right away.
Now that I am on 9. Wow - is very fast - shows just how old my iMac is. Ugly but fast. Didn't look like Plus Optimizer was being updated, so I have booted up 9 to make new cd with the updated program and System 9.2.1.
never used classic ;-)
never used classic really. when i got my mac, it had x and the x was the reason i like it. i don't like classic so as all my apps are either for os x or manually compiled from the unix apps, i never have needed the classic for anything. :-)
This poll is maybe bogus
People who use startup and run Classic progs everyday
probably aren't all that likely to surf to macosxhints.com are they? So
the start up and run all day numbers are naturally low.
This poll is maybe bogus
You are right on!
This poll is maybe bogus
...and your grammar is maybe really bad.
This poll is maybe bogus
Well, it may be skewed, but not bogus. Even though everyone here is interested in OS X, not everyone can use it exclusively. In addition to OS X, I use Classic because I have to connect to an Exchange server, and have Win XP to use our support database. Before anyone says I should just use Outlook on my Windows box, I receive a lot of attachments for apps I just have on my Mac, so that's not practical, even with SMB, FTP, etc. Just because it can be done doesn't mean that I need to waste the company's money while I shuffle files to prove a point. Sorry, enough of that ramble! I need the calendar and global address book functions, unfortunately, or I'd just connect via IMAP and use Entourage or Mail. Sigh...
WMA support
I've discovered that many divx files have audio encoded in wma format and unfortunatly, there is no OSX support for this yet. I gotta have my Invader Zim. So, classic it is.
WMA support
I also used classic to watch my Invader Zim Divx's but now switched to MPlayer. It comes from the linux world (I think)
WMA support
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