[The Godfather]

I guess I under estimated how much I would miss it.

Today, I wanted to run an old Assembler that used to run fine in Classic in my previous iBook G4. I knew I wouldn't be able to, but I didn't think I would need it again! Anyone else having withdrawal symptoms from lack of OS 9?

[davesimondotcom]

Since OS X Public Beta, I've used Classc a total of less than 30 times... haven't touched it in over 4 years, except on my dad's original Bondi iMac, which he refuses to upgrade to X.

[Chuckit]

My friends at a local paper still use OS 9 to do all their page layout.

[lounge]

i use it to play original Unreal Tournament... thats about it.

[paul w]

In France I was forced to use it up until 2005 or so. Now I run into it occasionally, but haven't seen any use it for serious work in about a year and a half.

Of course I'm referring to OS 9.2, not "Classic"

[Salty]

I had some old Macromedia apps it would have been nice to have been able to keep. That's about it.

[CharlesS]

ResEdit, ResCompare, other specialty apps now and then, and a rather large collection of old-school games.

My parents use Folio Views as part of their daily workflow.

[chris v]

Quark 6 & Illustrator CS2 (Live Trace replaced Streamline) have utterly and completely removed any need for Classic from my life at work. At home, I still need Photoshop 6 in Classic for my old Umax scanner, which I try to use as little as possible. I really should relace that thing with a Canon.

[turtle777]

Nope. I switched to OS X with my iBook Dual USB in summer 2001.
Haven't gone back ever since.

-t

[amazing]

I use it every day with extensions turned off to run Shanghai II. I also use it (extensions turned on) to administer my Laserwriter 16/600 with the old Apple Printer Utility.

Still haven't found a current mahjong game that I like as well.

[Oneota]

About the only use I've found for it lately is to break out my old games (Future Cop LAPD, Descent III, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Return to Zork, etc) and to convert the odd Indeo AVI file to MPEG4 with OS 9's QuickTime.

I've got a Blue & White G3 stashed under my desk for just that purpose.


What I would love to do is compress my current computing setup (1 G5 tower, 1 PC, 1 B&W G3) to just 1 24" iMac, but I kind of doubt that SheepShaver would allow those games to be playable. It'd work just fine for the QT conversions, though.

[SirCastor]

I haven't touched it in forever, however my Girlfriend has to use some ridiculous program that runs in 9. Why they're still publishing this junk I'll never know. I wonder what the new Mac students do...

[d4nth3m4n]

been going strong on osx since i bought my first "modern" mac (and ibook 700) when jag was the flavor of the month.

just got my parents to get with the times with their quicksilver last year though.

[The Godfather]

I've having a little fun with SheepShaver tonight. The frequent crashes remind me of the actual OS 9 experience.

[Sherman Homan]

I have several clients who make a good living using "legacy" System 9 apps. The problem is that when they run into problems the only solution is a radical transition to OS X. That can get ugly, but as long as System 9 purrs along, who can blame them?

[ambush]

Using OSX since DP4.

[rickey939]

OS 9? Hmm, sounds really familiar....but nope, cannot place it.

[nerd]

Since 10.0 I've booted into 9 maybe 5 times, well more then that to play UT or Quake. Other then that I never looked back.

[- - e r i k - -]

Booted into 9? Man, those were the days

R.I.P. Deus Ex.

[TheoCryst]

I wasn't even a Mac user back in the OS 9 days (or before Tiger, for that matter), so I don't miss it at all. Nonetheless, I recently got SheepShaver running on my MacBook, and I must say that I've been missing out all these years. Granted, it all feels old, but it's very usable and not too slow (should be emulated at ~250MHz G4). And as a side note, it's just odd to run it in fullscreen mode and to watch my MB appear to boot into OS 9.

[Ghoser777]

Total Annihilation.

[hart]

I use it every day for After Dark Games Solitaire. never found a solitaire that is quite as soothing as that one.

Still in use for lots of kids software. Why buy new versions of Reader Rabbit or whatever as the various kids use it. I'm actually not even sure if the new versions run on OSX or not. Kids' publishers have been recalcitrant on the OSX front in general.

I've seen computers in the NYC public school system still on OS9 completely. It looks so wierd.

[Oversoul]

I was a late adopter of OS X. I had played with the betas and had installed Cheetah, but they were so maddingly slow and, at the time, most of my programs were still Classic. It wasn't until Puma when I finally switched over. Haven't been back more than a dozen of times since.

[Big Mac]

I used OS 8.6 along with OS X on my iBook until I retired my 8600 in 2004 with the purchase of my glorious G5. Since then, I use Classic on occasion for certain things are just easier to accomplish using OS 9 software as well as for file compatibility with defunct apps, but I haven't booted into OS 9 since.

[Eug Wanker]

Heh. I just installed OS 9 (if you can call copying over two directories "installing") on my Cube, just for the hell of it. I looked at it, and then promptly went back into OS X. (I was considering selling the Cube so I figured there might be some potential buyer out there that wanted an OS 9 compatible machine, and wanted to make sure my OS 9.2.2 disk worked properly with my CPU upgrade.)

It's the first time I've had OS 9 on any of my computers in the last 2 years. And in the 2 years before that I had it on my computers but used it maybe once every six months.

But then again, I've always HATED OS 9.

[Mastrap]

The second I could switch to OS X i did. Never touched it since.