I have my own OS9 library, which is fortunate, because I could not find some software on the web anymore. For some reason, I saved each and every one of them. I’ve had software issues and bugs but luckily, a long time ago, I subscribed to MacAddict and each month it shipped a CD full of OS9 Apps and Utilities.

I have Photoshop, Illustrator, all the Adobe products, plus the old IE Explorer 5.1. I started it in 1996 using Adobe Pagemaker (6.0). I publish a newsletter using a lovely and talented PowerMac G3 with a 400mz chip and OS9.1. My media center is a maxxed out Mac Mini with 3 TB of external hard drive space on a 26″ LCD TV. OS9 is still more true to Apple’s original philosophy, but OSX has been improving.īy the way, the search function for file names works much better in OS9, but the content find is better in OSX. I am hoping the the future return of VBA to Office will allow me to switch fully, or I may need to bite the bullet and switch to Filemaker I use the OS9’s for work and the Intels and Quicksilvers (dual) for fun and media). As it is, I have 2 white iBooks, 2 titanium G4’s, 2 Quicksilver towers, and 3 half-volleyball imac’s that can run my software. I also was not enthusiastic about running it under an emulator. I tried to port it to Office 2004 on an Intel mac but it was severely unstable. The biggest issue involves my M$ VBA electronic records set up that i created over the years. I use OS9 for a few programs that I wrote and did not take the time to rewrite in C as they were in Pascal. I own several Intel macs and a number of dual boot Macs.

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