icey-ice-ice Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 after 1.0 or so i think they lost the guided tours. can we x86 classic??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Classic cannot be X86-ed, at least not without a nasty port job. USe SheepShaver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeevekiller Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Not merely System 6, but System 6.08L, specifically! Some hooks to the features soon to come in System 7, but w/ all the insanely ugly & stupid desktop patterns stripped out, & other unnecessary system resources as well. Small footprint, as fast as it comes. Load it up in a Powerbook 100, even w/ the base 2MB of memory, you can still allocate enough space for 6.08L to a ram disk [no need for a disk cache; trim that to zero! System 6' disk cach mgmt. sucked anyway...] and have enough ram left over to run MacWrite II. Best of the System 6, & so unknown that it's still mostly a rumour after a decade & 1/2. But I was there, I used it, & still miss the rockin' performance that running completely out of ram gave to the otherwise sedate PB100. Of course, by today's standards that was still dog slow, but at the time it was the best bang for the buck available for mobile production [no internet to distract you from getting things done is still sometimes a valuable feature! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToA Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I choose... I've never used a mac os before os x /Needs to try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oss-Seven-Point-Six Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 System 7 was fun...when I used it in kindergarden/Grade 1. It totally made my Windows 3.11 on a 486 look like {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I would say Mac OS 8. It ran quite well on the iMacs and other Macs of the time. However Windows NT 4.0 came out a year before Mac OS 8. I always liked NT better than Mac OS. Windows 2000 came out around 5 months after Mac OS 9 was released, and then I really just lost interest in the Macintosh... Until OS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 The first Mac OS I ever used was 7.5.3 on the Power Macintosh 7200's at college, and everything else has just built on it (until the Return of Jobs ensured that OS X felt more like NeXT STEP rather than the classic Mac OS). I really still like 7.x, sticking to 7.6.1 on my Powerbook. I have 9.2.2 on my blue G3 because it came with 8.6 and won't run 7.x at all, so I might as well go with the latest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oss-Seven-Point-Six Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 You could get the appearance manager for system 7 and give it the os8 look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 OS 9. The best obviously unless you are a vintage geek. No rly, is this thread even neccessary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 The best OS's were 8.6 and 9. They both ran PERFECTLY on a G3 with 64 mb ram. Under emulation it is {censored} but it gives you a look. Anyway, I voted 9, because by me it worked best and wasn't kind-a "Abandonwarez" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminaire Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Wow. Seems Apple actually gets better with every new release. Contrary to another company we all know... Anyway, asking what version of window you like best is kind of weird too, isn't it? But I'd have to say Win2000 (NT6, IIRC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oss-Seven-Point-Six Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Anyway, asking what version of window you like best is kind of weird too, isn't it? But I'd have to say Win2000 (NT6, IIRC). Actually, that was NT 5.0, not 6 (Vista is 6 ) Windows 2000 isn't that bad, provided you slipstream it and get rid of all the junk. http://www.vorck.com/remove-ie.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedfreaK Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 OS 9!! why? os 7 was totally not compatible with windows (i have an old performa and when i insert a diskette with a mac os classic program, but it's written with a pc to that diskette, os 7 can't work good with it) i never used mac os 8 and i used os 9 for more than 5 years and it was the best mac os system i had (and i had various macs: mac classic II, powerbook duo 250, powerbook 130, performa 5300, performa 7x00) and my imac dv worked with os 9. (now it runs panther) but the very best mac os operating system is leopard!! (it's soooo good (i have it on my alu imac)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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