I miss OS 9
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- Spookytim0
The great thing about the old OSs was that you could strip them down and optimise them just for what you wanted to use the machine for. I wouldn't dare go into the system folder now and start pulling extensions out of the system folder becuase I wouldn't know what they did.
- designbot0
Yeah, I think both Microsoft and Apple would benefit greatly from having a full customizable OS installer. I have had this idea for sometime. Where it would ask you a series of questions (or just let you choose) to install only what you need or were going to use. There are always tons of extra things most people don't use and never will. Linux does this, but it's def not mainstream or for the novice.
- gramme0
I miss it not.
- Spookytim0
I have to say I miss the past greatly. It was tipped in my favour back then. Much less competition, much higher fees, much more demand for designers. Now everybody is doing everything you could possibly think about doing. Any style, any approach, any subject matter, and narrative, any purpose, anything you care to think of doing, someone out there already has a whole website crammed full of it, and there's two hundred people already ripping it off. And its all thanks to the great advances of this glorious digital age.
- designbot0
Seems like everything is going in that direction. Yes the digital age, where everything is at our fingertips, where some 12 year old kid (somewhere) can do what the Pixar animators can :)
- exactly. I find it really hard, really a huge challenge to remain motivated and inspired...Spookytim
- I try to self initiate things that are as original as I can make them, utterly unlike anything else I have seen...Spookytim
- ... and then a few weeks later, I'll see it somewhere else. Over and over again.Spookytim
- yeah, well on a plus side I was looking at some of your work and it's sick man. Don't get too down :)designbot
- jfletcher0
I don't miss OS9. Gil was running Apple into the ground, and totally forgot what Apple was about and why it was different. Steve fixed that. There is a ton of stuff I don't like about Apple, but OSX is worlds ahead of OS9 and has helped keep Apple in business.
- BonSeff0
"yo man - my shit keeps hanging up and wont load all the extensions, piece of shit!"
that was me like every other week for 5 yrs
- mirrorball0
i miss a wee add on to OS9 that made the icons spin around! the faster you dragged them the more violently they would swing round, looked pretty cool actually!
- yes! and holding the alt key made them dropping down from the arrow and shattering at the edge of the sceen!invisiblechamber
- CyBrain0
Of course missing something that old and clearly inferior is ridiculous, but one feature was better, the menu at the top right that you could go to any of your open apps instead of wasting space at the bottom for the dock.
- Unsanity Fruit Menu brings this back in OSX (not sure about Intel-compatibility)ribit
- ********0
Dam, it's been a long time sense I have seen OS 9, the one thing I do miss about OS 9 is the speed of the operating system, it was a pleasure to use.
- ********0
As for OS X not crashing, well that is plain bullshit, the operating system will not go down, but I have had all sort of apps just bloody disappearing on me with 10.5
- Nothing to do with the OS, thats to do with application developersmodern
- That include Safari too********
- humper-jones0
For sound/audio/sequencing programs OS9 was the shizzzt. Everything I did sounded sonically better in 9...and the plugins for Cubase in OS9 were ridiculous.
- hmm.. i will have to disagree with you here. that damn OMS plugin!!!acescence
- JerseyRaindog0
I miss working on paste-up boards with letraset and rubylith.
- omnicrom film!invisiblechamber
- i found my trusty old burnishing stick whilst rummaging thru some old things the other dayacescence
- SoulFly0
I still have os9 on my blueberry iMac that I have stored in my closet. About 2 weeks ago I turned it on because I was looking for some old old file of a brochure I did... It was very nostalgic... I can't believe its been 10 years since I bought that computer, and it still works.
Someone mentioned RESEDIT... yeah that was cool, some kid at school had shown me how to master that app.
- ephix0
brendan you are crazy
- Spookytim0
"I miss working on paste-up boards with letraset and rubylith"
Ah fuck it, if we're going to do this properly: I miss making halftones on a PMT machine. Letratone LT51 was the correct 20% tint for Grimley JR Eve's ad border in the Birmingham Evening Mail. My boss was too tight to keep buying new sheets of it so he used to make me keep one sheet pristine and make PMT copies of it. That was surely the 1985 equivalent of ripping images off via Google.
And then there's the great MANUAL vs ELECTRIC war of PMT machines. My first ever feeling of "progressive technology cynicism" when the manual hand-cranked PMT machines got superceded by push button electric ones. I operated a manual. Those Electric ones were WAY too complicated and unreliable.
I knew nothing good would come of technology way back then. AND I WAS RIGHT!
DAMN YOU ALL!
*Waves shotgun around the room and dribbles.
- "PTC".
I am an acute sufferer.Spookytim - *hides.JerseyRaindog
- "PTC".
