#classic mac os

[foone]

Out of context image I edited for a mastodon reply:

Windows 95 but with a classic Mac OS flavor.

[tseiri]

[painted-soldier]

(via fresh2definitely, halfdry)

[02567]

first episode is up!! :0 i heard people here are kinda crazy for this story, but this is the first time ive ever seen it!!

[arconinternet]

Beano Cardz: Dennis the Menace (Windows/Classic Mac, 2001)

Card-shaped mini-CD merch of the long-running British comic book The Beano, and of its most famous character, who coincidentally shares his name with an American character who debuted in the same month as him. You can download it here, and run it in your browser by dragging the .iso file onto the emulated Mac desktop here.

The featured contest's prize was tickets to the Chesstington World of Adventures theme park, which at the time had a Beanoland area themed around the comic. The Beanoland theming's closure in 2009 was commemorated with a massive pie fight.

[kiddonet]

classic Mac OS tiled wallpapers

[msx-pocky]

i played solitaire on mac while waiting for a download to finish

what i discovered is a game called burning monkey solitaire which has a game mode where you can play pick up 52 and every time you pick up a card the cartoon monkeys get extremely fucking horny and start firing sexually charged flirts at you regardless of gender

[noegrets]

I remember reading one of the manuals that came with my Mac OS 7 computer, and it explained the importance of the shapes of icons for conveying meaning to the user. Folders were to have an evident folder shape - a folder might have an image drawn on the folder, but it will always be shaped like a manila folder. Applications were to have an overall diamond shape to clearly distinguish them from files, which would have an overall rectangular shape with one corner folded. And Control Panels would be square with a slide-switch on them. Because you should always know at a glance if something is a folder, an application, a file, or system control panel.

One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.

"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF

I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.

"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?

and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!

[gamemories]

[jbk405]

Installing and running Mac OS Classic is such a nostalgia punch. That smiley face transported me thirty years back in time.

It's also a trip because I never predicted I would need to setup a new install of OS Classic on OS 10.4 again. This is two different layers of history.

[defiantdreemurrs]

i wrote a new blog post on my neocities about one of my older computers. i might repost it here on tumblr but i need a break after writing that so maybe expect it later tonight.

[tmarshconnors]

 My Apple Story. 

One of the biggest problems for any kind of blogger is “What should I blog about next?” Well, I never said in my first blog but I am a big fan of the company Apple Inc. That being said. I shall make this blog about “My Apple Story”.

Early Years (2006-2009)

It all started back in 2006. I was on holiday with my Grandparents when they bought me an iPod Nano second generation.  I won't lie I never used the device. It stayed in the cupboard for years. Admittedly I wasn't really into anything like that back then. Was far more into my gaming console the PlayStation 2 from Sony. As a passionate gamer (which I still am) the iPod wasn't even on my radar.

Years 2008-2009

As 2008 came around. For Christmas that year I was gifted an iPod Touch 8GB. Now back in 2008 that 8GB was a lot of memory for such a small device. No matter this time round I gave it more attention. So I went about learning all about how it worked and I took notes, watched YouTube videos and played many iOS games. All around. I fell in love with the device.

A year later in 2009, I got my very first MacBook Pro 13-inch It was also the same year I got my very first iPhone. The iPhone 3Gs. Both were equally insanely great.

Years 2010-2011

 During the year 2010, I must have spent hours reading articles and watching videos just to know more about the company and their leader. In the year 2010, I got my very first iPad first generation. What a device! We take it for granted now but iPad but back then it was something truly different. It was like no other experience to that current date apart from my small iPod and iPhone. So as time went on there I was quite happy with my iPod Touch and iPhone and MacBook and iPad. I was quite literally on top of the world. 

Then suddenly in 2011 in the early hours of October 5th 2011 after the Apple October event on the 4th, I was in bed reading the Wall Street Journal on my iPad about everyone's thoughts on the event under the new CEO Tim Cook and it came onto the news that the founder Steve Jobs had died of pancreatic cancer. I won't lie. I looked up to him for so much inspiration and now he was gone. Forever. A hero of mine.

 I just started tearing up. Sad when you think as his products got stronger he got weaker. It felt like a friend of mine or a family member just died. Here is the odd thing up to that point I never felt loss like that before. I digress...

Years 2012-2015

So 2011 came and went and that following year I got the iPhone 4s then a year later I got the iPhone 5 both were very capable phones. My love for Apple didn't die with Steve Jobs if anything it got much MUCH stronger.

I carried loyally on watching the Apple events. In the year 2012 also I got an upgrade to both my old iPod Touch and my old iPad. I got the iPod Touch (Product Red) 32GB fifth generation. Looking back I won't lie I didn't even need that iPod, I simply just wanted it. The iPad I got was the new slim iPad Air in white. 

By the year 2013 came around. I was visiting the US I got an iPod Classic with 160GB the last of its kind. As a year later in September 2014. Apple decided to discontinue making them along with all the other iPods apart from the iPod Touch. 

In 2014 I only got one device and that was the iPhone 6. During 2014 I did like in years gone by I watched every Apple event so I was fully up to date in every aspect of Apple. You could have asked me any question regarding price or specs and I would have known the correct answer. Once again my apologies. I digress...

Years 2015-2019

So 2015 came about and I had hardware issues with my 2009 MacBook Pro. It was the battery. I mean let us face facts. I was on it every day since I got the device no wonder the battery was failing. That being said instead of getting a replacement. I got the new MacBook Pro 13-inch 2015. It was the first MacBook I got with the legendary retina display. 

When I was visiting the US again in 2017, I got myself the Apple Watch series one. Now here’s the interesting previously I never wore a watch in my life. So I guess just a turn of a switch of a light. I became a watch user.

So as the years went on I didn't by surprise upgrade my iPhone until the mic decided not to work and once again instead of getting it fixed, I got the new iPhone 7 as it was a lot cheaper than the current new iPhone 8 at the time in 2017. 

Years 2019-2023

So when the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019) was announced I figured it was a good time to upgrade my old MacBook 13-inch and bite the bullet and get a new 15-inch with the all-new touch bar while I was at it upgraded my iPhone 7 to the iPhone 11 and got myself the Apple Watch Series Three. All of them were simply wonderful I mean I was seriously overwhelmed by how great they were. So much so I even got myself an old 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro from a man on Facebook. That was the start of my love of the bigger screens on Macs.

Skipping onto 2021 came about and as you can imagine once again I felt that urge to upgrade one of my devices. As I looked around my room I wondered what could upgrade and there it was my old very dated by this point iPad Air so that being said. I traded in my old iPad Air and got the phenomenal 12.9 iPad Pro with 256GB and an M1 chip it is a powerhouse in its own right. Then while I was at that too I decided to upgrade my Apple Watch Series 3 to an Apple Watch Series Six. 

Oh and I almost forgot I got the AirPod Pro second generation. They are great. I wouldn't be without them. I used them every day since I bought them.

In January 2022 I traded in my old MacBook Pro for the brand new MacBook Pro with yet another bigger screen yes by one whole inch it's now 16 inches but it is much more than that it was massively redesigned inside and out and while I was at it I got traded in my old iPhone 11 for the iPhone 13 Mini.

2023. Now and this January I just traded in my old AppleWatch S6 and got myself the AppleWatch S8. I am hoping Apple come out with an iPhone 14 Mini. That is my next target but we shall see.

Update (2024) October I now using an Apple Watch Ultra 2 and an iPhone 16 Pro

So I guess that wraps up my Apple story. I shall be updating this as I get more etc Here is a list below of all the Apple products I have owned over the years. 

 iPod Nano second generation (Black)

iPod touch second Generation Black)

iPod classic sixth Generation (Black)

 iPod Touch fifth generation (Product Red)

MacBook Pro 13-inch (Silver)

MacBook Pro 13-inch (Silver)

MacBook Pro 15-inch (Space Grey)

MacBook Pro 15-inch (Silver)

MacBook Pro 16-inch (Space Grey)

MacBook Pro 16-inch (Space Black)

AirPods Pro First Gen (White)

iPhone 3Gs (Black)

iPhone 4s (Black)

iPhone 6 (White)

iPhone 7 (Black)

iPhone 11 (Product Red)

iPhone 13 Mini (Blue)

iPhone 14 Pro Max (Deep Purple)

iPhone 16 Pro (White)

iPad First Generation (Black)

iPad Air First Generation (White)

iPad Pro 5th Gen (Black)

iPad Pro 6th Gen (Black)

 Apple Watch Series One (Black)

 Apple Watch Series Three. (Black)

 Apple Watch Series Six (Blue)

Apple Watch Series Eight (Black)

Apple Watch Ultra 2 (Black)

[quicktimeeventfull]

L's Apple Computers

death note is now twenty years old & the anime replaced the logos with generic knockoffs so it's no longer visually obvious that L's computers are macs but he is canonically an apple user. i've decided to gather up all this incredibly vital information about which specific devices he uses. his computers his laptop is a powerbook g4 titanium. his desktop is the powermac g4 mirrored drive doors version.

his operating systems for some reason, he is using a different OS on his laptop and desktop. both his computer models came pre-installed with Mac OS and macOS (then called OS X) in a dual-boot configuration. Mac OS is the classic line of operating systems; macOS is the current one. on his laptop, he's running one of the the classic Mac OS systems. this would most likely have been OS 9, as that was the version installed on the g4 laptops. macOS/OS X was the default option, so this was an active choice he made. he has his language set to japanese.

on his desktop, however, he's using the more contemporary macOS/OS X in english. (this also suggests english is the language he's more comfortable in, since the desktop is the one no one else sees.) these are a bit more difficult to visually distinguish, but it's probably panther, which would have been the contemporary one, since previous versions didn't have borders around their windows. he's got the dock collapsed, which was a built-in option.

[02567]

thought i should post some photos of my ""rig""!! there's a WHOPPING 256MB ((yes mb)) of RAM in this bad boy!! AND it is connected to ethernet... my browser of choice is Classilla!!

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Classic OS Mac Wallpapers (1999)

[never-obsolete]

*Classic means any version older than Mac OS X (2001)