Shave the pain away

Since I can't run OSX yet on my hackintosh machine, at least I have something to cheer me up until I do - Sheepshaver! I was usually playing around with Basilisk II, installing System 7 and eventually MacOS 8 on it, but Sheepshaver supports MacOS 9 - which means - I get the benefits of using (ehm... emulating) the powerPC architecture! Now that I have installed the "blast from the past" or the "classic environment" - MacOS 9, I can taste that sweet feeling of speed, even on a pittyful 100MHz of simulated processing frequency! How cool is that? One of the biggest arguments of die hard fans for continuing on publishing working applications for the OS9 is the speed that it brought to the table (nevermind the memory protection though ), and the simplicity that, supposedly, today's eye candy takes away. I do have to agree that OS9 lacks good memory protection and all the nice features that newer operating systems have to offer, but still, a great sum of people use their Macs or PCs for day to day office work - aka - nothing special, and OS9 coveres all that with the speed and simplicity only it can brag about. Think of all the Vista users out there that have the Windows classic theme active, I bet there's nothing that can replace that gray 2D environment... If I ever get the chance to fix someone's Mac running OS9, I certainly won't complain about it. Anywhoo, here's how it looks (yeah, yeah... I know - it's a cheesy background, but it still looks nice):

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