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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
That refers to my 500MHz TiBook running OS X, obviously. But I've hit the wall. No more OS 9 on this laptop! After all this time spent dragging my feet until they're worn down to stubs, it turns out that my two most favorite, absolutely essential OS 9 apps are incompatible with Classic. Well, beat me silly.
Sure, I could boot up in OS 9. I could also only drive my car downhill to save gas, but I refuse. I keep the TiBook sleeping when I'm not using it, a modus operandi I got used to with my iBook and I'm never going back to cold shutdowns and restarts. In case you're wondering what doesn't work in Classic, it's the very best image editing program in the entire world, wwwART 2.0 from MicroFrontier. This hurts. Maybe it would world if I installed it from scratch instead of merely transferring the files, and I may still try that before trashing all traces of OS 9.2.2 currently installed on the TiBook.
I love wwwART. You can do basic image editing (color, contrast, RGB, sharpen, blur, etc. etc.) in a fraction of the time it takes for the same thing in Photoshop. Oh well. I'll be in the market for a quick, easy, image editor for OS X, in case you know any. The other thing that doesn't work in Classic are the drivers for my SanDisk Imagemate Compact Flash card reader (USB). This sucks mightily, so if anyone has an idea of how to get it to work without rebooting into OS 9, I'd love to hear it.
But to tell you the truth, I don't care about OS 9 apps per se any more. Apple has got me by the mouse cord on this one. They've broken my resistance. I can't fight any more. I'll just keep the TiBook OS X-only and be done with it.
So, does Apple have the last laugh? Well, not quite. But that's the end of this report.
UPDATE: Please hold your emails protesting that the SanDisk Imagemate works fine with OS X. I was not born yesterday, although my Imagemate Compact Flash reader apparently was. This one does not work with OS X or Classic, as near as I can tell. It dates from the early dawn of the USB era and hath no viability in these times.This parrot is dead. Expired.
(Thangyouverramuch.)
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