Phasing out OS 9, Here Comes Jaguar

[Wry Cooter]

Originally posted by Pepzhez


Apple has managed the migration to OS X horribly (understatement). No matter how much you may like the company, you have to admit that this whole affair has been handled so ineptly, confusedly and wretchedly, it makes you wonder what the hell is going on in Cupertino.

I dunno. Compared to the progress Copland was making, reading weekly reports on Macs future OS plans in MacWeek for several years, the roll out of OS X so far in comparison seems as though it has happened overnight.

Guess we could have gone with BeOS, but then you wouldn't even have networking by now.

Right now, I don't see Apple as the hold up. About all they could do to speed things up is send a coding team into every developer out there and handle the transition to carbon and cocoa for them, gratis.

 

[Wry Cooter]

Originally posted by i_b_joshua


Apple has not abandoned OS 9 they have basically said "that's it," they're not doing any more work on it and the market (yes they're driven by the market) is not big enoughto make it worth making new hardware to support booting into OS 9.

Thats the crux. Its not that they really have to bend over backwards to make the new hardware still boot in OS 9. If anything, they seem more likely to crippling the hardware so it will not boot in OS 9.

Sort of stern measures, to kick developers in the arse, but its stupid. They are merely going to lose developers and clients playing hardball at this point.

If a new tower that could only boot into OS X only (classic was still available) was available at MWSF, yet Xpress, ProTools etc (legacy app, drivers of your choice here), were not carbonized yet, would you buy that tower?

I can't budget overnight replacement of every professional application I own on TOP of a new hardware purchase.

 

[eric_n_dfw]

Originally posted by G4scott
Now, If I can just get my umax astra 6400 to work with OS X without having to buy vue scan...

Get VueScan, or get a new scanner (hehe - I did both)

A while ago I posted this, it's an email Umax sent me in June:

from support@umaxcare.com
Question’s about OS X Support: Will my Umax scanner work with OS X? What
Umax scanners will work with OS X?

Umax Technologies, Inc. will support its current professional-grade scanners
under Apple’s new OS 10.X operating environment. The models included are:

PowerLook III
PowerLook 2100XL
PowerLook 1100
PowerLook 3000

Umax currently has made no commitment to supporting older professional
models under OS X at this time. Also, no consumer-level (Astra models, or
older consumer-level) scanners will be targeted for support under OS X.

Drivers for the current line-up of professional scanners are currently in
Beta-Development and are not currently available to the public. Please
continue to check our web site for updates to this information as it becomes
available.

 

[red cap]

no more os9... no...no...

im really tired and in the bad mood, so...

forgive me, if im asking too much, but our company need os 9!!!!!!
For you americans i guess, its quite simple to change the os isnt it!

If im not getting os9 with new powermacs, isay **** you, apple. In our little country in Europe none is using osx for work! Everyone is using os9.x. Why.

Because we use fonts with special characters and apple is not providing us a system with our keyboard, so we have to use our selfmade keyboard system and every program is using it!!!

ALSO, in january we bought 10 adobe design collections for os9. So why are you so ****ing annoying with> os 9 is dead...we dont need it...especialy that guy crying about games for little kids...shut the **** up@@$%, MAN.

STOP PUSHING.

 

[iwantanewmac]

Re: no more os9... no...no...

Originally posted by red cap
im really tired and in the bad mood, so...

forgive me, if im asking too much, but our company need os 9!!!!!!
For you americans i guess, its quite simple to change the os isnt it!

If im not getting os9 with new powermacs, isay **** you, apple. In our little country in Europe none is using osx for work! Everyone is using os9.x. Why.

Because we use fonts with special characters and apple is not providing us a system with our keyboard, so we have to use our selfmade keyboard system and every program is using it!!!

ALSO, in january we bought 10 adobe design collections for os9. So why are you so ****ing annoying with> os 9 is dead...we dont need it...especialy that guy crying about games for little kids...shut the **** up@@$%, MAN.

STOP PUSHING.

DOn't forget....some providers don't even support OSX...
I can't use my damn ADSL with X yet!!!!!!!
it just doesnt work!!!!!!

 

[Wry Cooter]

Originally posted by JEdiBeavis


I can do without the latest and greatest games for myself. But if I have to worry about whether the stuff from Reader Rabbit, Jumpstart, Humungous, etc. is going to run on my brand new eMac I just can't buy it.

Indeed, not creating an enabler to boot into OS 9 on a new mac is not going to help educational sales one iota, where they have many pieces of continuably viable and tested educactional progams that may call for booting into os 9. Although I see no reason Reader Rabbit and the like cannot viably work in classic, there are other apps- Font management, plug ins,security, old printer drivers, multilicense dongles hardware and software, Quark, that may call for a boot, at least on occasion, into OS 9.

I would rather they make OS 9.2.3 be a faster version of classic- at least then, if one needed- one could use older versions of OS 9 as the classic that is being married to os x for that boot.

Right now, classic for me is such a labyrinth of extentions that my version of classic is os 9.1, not 9.2.2. I keep OS X and 9.2.x on their own drive, and OS 9.1 on its own drive.

 

[mmmdreg]

Re: canon n1220u

Originally posted by zorglub
go to " hamrick.com " and download VueScan V.7.5.40.
he's ok for your scan.
z-)

I swear that used to be shareware and put like watermark on your image if you didn't register...is it still so?