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Why are you using Classic?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Seattle
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This used to be a big topic on this board and I wonder what the current state of things is. Which applications do you still run in Classic?
Is there anything that still hasn't been ported?
I'm still using classic for Timbuctu, QuickTime VR Authoring Studio and illustrator (which I never use anyway). Thanks to the SANE project I can now scan in carbon (F.U. Umax!)
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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I'm not using classic at all...
If they can't get something ported in 2-4 years, then it's obvious to me that they simply don't care.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Bolton, UK
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Classic is for playing old games. Unfortunately, 10.3 introduced double-buffering for classic graphics, which stops a lot of my favourites from working properly. 
Barney.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Yokohama, Japan
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My father needs Classic for the Indeo video codecs, because he deals with idiotic cardiac imaging system vendors who insist on using only "standards" from 10 years ago.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I'm not using classic at all...
If they can't get something ported in 2-4 years, then it's obvious to me that they simply don't care.
Absolutely!
After blowing a bit of a gasket one day and throwing out my daughter's 2 Dora the Expolerer games that required classic, my Macs have been classic free.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2003
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ResEdit
I have to support some old apps, that although have been Carbonized, still have resources. That's the only time I use Classic.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: the ends of the earth
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Originally posted by Gavin:
This used to be a big topic on this board and I wonder what the current state of things is. Which applications do you still run in Classic?
Is there anything that still hasn't been ported?
I'm still using classic for Timbuctu, QuickTime VR Authoring Studio and illustrator (which I never use anyway). Thanks to the SANE project I can now scan in carbon (F.U. Umax!)
I still use Classic for (in order of importance)
1 old games which are no longer supported and which in many cases were published by vendors who are no longer in business
2 old apps other than games which I use on occasion. For example, Ares FontMonger still works in Classic, even though it was bought and murdered by Adobe over a decade ago.
3 old apps which, while supported under OS X, are published by low-lifes who I will never give so much as one penny to ever again. (Yes, Quark, I'm talking about _you_!)
4 old apps which are sometimes needed, but which are unsupported under OS X in large part because the vendors were even bigger idiots than Quark. (difficult though that may be to be believed.) (Corel, that's _you_!)
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I use Classic for FrameMaker, because in Adobe's wisdom, they considered the Mac market "too small" for the long document/technical document software.
You watch, within 3 years Adobe will cut off all Mac development for any software. Strange? Yep. But consider the absolute anti-Mac stance that Adobe has demonstrated since the change of leadership.
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Ignore the argumentative nature of this poster. He is old and can't engage in meaningful dialog
very long. Therefore, management asks that you at least humor him. Thanks.
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