Classic now gone FOREVER

[iMacZealot]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303137

^^^
Classic is discontinued in 10.5 for the PowerPC. I didn't know a thing about it until I read that.

It's a bit sad, considering that I use Classic on my G5 here from time to time and now am relegated to using my G3 for this.

On the flipside, Classic is old, and is becoming a less frequently used feature for most sane people unlike myself.

 

[Cromulent]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303137

^^^
Classic is discontinued in 10.5 for the PowerPC. I didn't know a thing about it until I read that.

It's a bit sad, considering that I use Classic on my G5 here from time to time and now am relegated to using my G3 for this.

On the flipside, Classic is old, and is becoming a less frequently used feature for most sane people unlike myself.

Old news but still sad in a way. Still I am tempted to install Mac OS 8 or 9 on my G3 Powerbook just so I can play some old classic games at full speed (SimCity 2000 here I come!).

 

[MacNut]

I thought classic was dead years ago.

 

[powerbook911]

I a bit sad about this. I think it is a bit silly they had to discontinue it.

I've been starting up classic mode on my Pbook inside OS X the past couple days just to say goodbye to classic.

I actually never used OS 9 (I had left mac back in system 7 days), but I still feel sad that now I can never fire up old classic and see the old days.

 

[Clydefrog]

FFFFFFOOOOOOORRRREEEEVVVVVVEEERRRRRRRR FFFFFFFFOOOOORRRRRREEEEEVVVVVERRRRR


sandlot

 

[MacNut]

Classic on OSX was always painful for me, it never ran all that good.

 

[powerbook911]

Classic on OSX was always painful for me, it never ran all that good.

On the later machines, I found it did a pretty good job. Of course, by then, people had stopped using it.

 

[iMacZealot]

Old news but still sad in a way. Still I am tempted to install Mac OS 8 or 9 on my G3 Powerbook just so I can play some old classic games at full speed (SimCity 2000 here I come!).

Yeah, I searched, but the only results were either threads about the iPod Classic or threads about Classic (the emulator) that were written in the Puma era.

I guess I'm lucky that I still have two iMac G3's lying around.

 

[JNB]

I still miss 6.0.7...

 

[dpaanlka]

On the flipside, Classic is old

When did you come to that realization?

and is becoming a less frequently used feature for most sane people unlike myself.

I don't think it's insane to still use Classic. I do, however, think it should be used on it's own hardware rather than as a "mode" of Mac OS X.

 

[Eidorian]

I think we've known this for sometime.

 

[Patrickool93]

/me cuts self in sadness.


Well, not really. I have about 5 various 68ks and Early PPCs (and a Rev D. iMac) lying around.

Still, an end of an era.

 

[bluefiberoptics]

I think I can live without playing Sim Ant and Sim City in Classic.

 

[iMacZealot]

I think we've known this for sometime.

YES! I know that...but now Classic won't work at all in 10.5.

 

[Cromulent]

I think I can live without playing Sim Ant and Sim City in Classic.

Ahhh Sim Ant! How could I forget that?

What a game .

 

[chrisgeleven]

I a bit sad about this. I think it is a bit silly they had to discontinue it.

Practically no one uses classic anymore. Just not worth the effort by Apple to keep it working.

It isn't silly at all. Just makes sense.

 

[iMacZealot]

Ahhh Sim Ant! How could I forget that?

What a game .

How about Oregon Trail? Ah, I remember playing that in grade school computer class back when our school had shiny new Performas with *OS 8!*

 

[Angrist]

Eh, I never liked the way classic ran on my machines. If I really need/want an old OS9 program, I'll just boot directly into 9.

 

[iMacZealot]

Eh, I never liked the way classic ran on my machines. If I really need/want an old OS9 program, I'll just boot directly into 9.

It always worked best that way on my G3's, but Classic wasn't too sluggish on my G5. (not that I can boot into OS 9 on my G5, but Classic was more satisfactory on my G5 than on my G3.)

 

[DanB91]

maybe sheepshaver can be ported to ppc?

 

[sushi]

maybe sheepshaver can be ported to ppc?

And improved. I have found it to be too buggy to use effectively.

Personally, I use Classic a lot so I will probably not upgrade those computers to Leopard.

On the ones that don't support Classic under Tiger, I will put Leopard on them.

 

[CANEHDN]

Good riddance. It's an old OS and it's about time it's fazed out. Bring on the Leopard. Yipee.

 

[shemp9999]

I can't remember the last time i used classic. years have gone by.

last week i used one of my apple discounts to help a friend upgrade to a new 20" imac from OS 9 on a Graphite iMac. that thing took well over two minutes to boot. remember that?

the imac came with 1-.4.x. i'm not sure if i should have him upgrade to leopard right away (eligible under mac up-to-date).

i think Tiger is the best Mac OS since System 7.6.1.

 

[GeeYouEye]

Dammit, I was hoping that it was just a bug in the Leopard dev seed.

I'm going to have to think long and hard about whether or not I should upgrade. I play all the classic Sim- games every so often, as well as Total Annihilation and the old Marathon games. It's a big reason I haven't bought a MacBook Pro yet. Perhaps an external drive with Tiger and Classic on it is in order.

 

[cohibadad]

If you upgrade a PPC machine that has Classic OS 9 installed it preserves the ability to boot into OS 9 on startup. I do miss that little Classic OS icon on the menubar even though I rarely ever used it. I did run my Bungie classic apps occasionally.