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Here's What Your Favorite Mac Apps Would Have Looked Like in 1999
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Nothing beats the snappy response times of the os9 desktop!! I TOTAL JOY to use .
Spent many late nights on Wordperfect and MS Office typing up papers for school. Lots of Audio recording and editing too
I Got more stuff done and accomplished on OS9 than Sluggish OSX any day.
The whole OS fit on just 1 CD. 650 MB vs 12.5 GB for BLOATED and BUGGY Monterey and BIG TURD SIR..
I'll never get rid of a working OS9 machine and all my PRO software.
It may take longer to process audio and video back then But It was reliable and a real Work Horse.
Only the dreaded BOMB and FREEZE and restart happened once in a while.
Spent many late nights on Wordperfect and MS Office typing up papers for school. Lots of Audio recording and editing too
I Got more stuff done and accomplished on OS9 than Sluggish OSX any day.
The whole OS fit on just 1 CD. 650 MB vs 12.5 GB for BLOATED and BUGGY Monterey and BIG TURD SIR..
I'll never get rid of a working OS9 machine and all my PRO software.
It may take longer to process audio and video back then But It was reliable and a real Work Horse.
Only the dreaded BOMB and FREEZE and restart happened once in a while.
I used Sheepshaver with Mac OS 8/9 for a while. Found that it actually worked better under Windows than macOS. Specifically, playing the X-Files Game.
I had a similar thing back in the day. Had Star Wars sounds & videos. I liked using a video of the Death Star blowing up Alderaan when emptying the trash.
You are correct. In the Philippines we only got 0.256Mbps ADSL by November 2000. That's over 21 years, 1 month ago.
But before that we had cable internet that has a throughput of 0.112Mbps. Good enough for VoIP.
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I didn't encounter many crashes on MacOS 9, especially with later iterations (9.2.x).
Howerer, I do remember these crash messages on older MacOS verisons, that didn't say much:
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All you could, was just to scratch your head.
The best thing will old MacOS systems was, that you could manually allocate RAM memory to different programs with the option Get Info → Memory (yes, sometimes this could be fatal
).
Anyway, I always used Virtual Memory too, like here:
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Howerer, I do remember these crash messages on older MacOS verisons, that didn't say much:
All you could, was just to scratch your head.
The best thing will old MacOS systems was, that you could manually allocate RAM memory to different programs with the option Get Info → Memory (yes, sometimes this could be fatal
).Anyway, I always used Virtual Memory too, like here:
Eh, there were a number of things they removed from that UI which made the UI better. Most obvious to me is the up and down arrows by the scrollbars. The practicality of those was never great. It was always faster to move the scrollbar by dragging them, or use a scroll wheel. Also, the ability to hide scrollbars was a huge improvement as well, especially given the ubiquity of scroll wheels and trackpad scrolling.
I think the general look was great and would still work today, but it wasn't what I would call "peak" design.
Apparently I need to be the first to say: OMG things are so much better now. Lots of progress since that time.
I still run OS 9.2 on my PowerBook G3, 4+ rows of inits at startup. One of my favorite OS iterations, relatively stable, at the time tight and fast. Had to fire it up this past Fall to help a former student recover files from an old Apple hard drive. PopwerBook SCSI adapter, 10/100 Ethernet and FireWire PCMCIA cards, swapped battery for 30GB hard drive, ah those were the days. I was able to configure TCP/IP with my modern internet connection and was even able to configure Outlook for email so I could email the files to the "kid". I was really surprised it still worked in this day and age. Actually bought it on the floor at MW SF in 1998 (99?).
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I miss those times. Things are much better today, but I still miss them
Users are referring to the interface, not the features of the OS.
cool!
i could hav use your collection and created a barter enhance several years ago.
definitely hold onto that!
i wish i kept the apps for g4 touch TV and Mountain lion from 2012.
very soon us Mojavians and other real computer users will need to eliminate our icloud
and use something else like firefox to sync our better oviducts from the pre 2013 era.
100 times this.
I really hated the Platinum UI... altho this is mostly because of the different approach to multi-tasking, the different approach to the "traffic lights", no Exposé, etc..
Aqua, however, especially from 10.3 onwards was the BEST.
I think the modern versions of macOS look FAR better, and that many people mistake nostalgia (which I also have, don't get me wrong) for automatically better. It's the same rosy retrospection fallacy where people say "Ah, the [insert your favorite decade here] were far simpler, happier times" etc. Or, conversely, the fallacy of assuming that just because something is new, it must be inferior to what came before. You often see this demonstrated when a new macOS version is released - a flood of complaints about how they've "ruined" it etc., but then (most) eventually get over it and change their perspective.
Still have my 233MHz Rev B iMac and I'll tell ya, booting into the classic MacOS is dangerous. Apple decided that the machine was stable enough that it didn't have a reset button. You had to insert a bent paperclip into a tiny hole near the ports. Its was literally their worst idea ever...
It’s hard to believe the indignity we had to suffer with early computing. I remember using gopher!
I remember floppy disks. You think 1999 was early? What about computing in the mid 1980’s? I remember those days.
I miss being able to drag a folder to the bottom of the screen and it would become a pop-up tab.
Not at all.
No nostalgia - I finish the day at work and my eyes are dead.
I don’t hate the new UI - I find it extremely straining on the eyes.
I miss those less saturated UIs.
LOL..Yes...I remember that..
nostalgia in our human brains only remember the good things about any OS or old program.
For me..Snow Leopard. I still use it for older programs.
Nice to see the old OS...memories.
