1. Paid
2. Mac OS X

OS X is neat. It’s still a strange beast. I had the beta for a few days when that was around, but only on an iMac. Now I have it as my main operating system on a beautiful bang up-to-date turquoise G3 at 350mhz. It crawls a bit. It would be nice if it was a bit more responsive.

My main problem is that it rather looks down it’s nose at trad AppleTalk, “the NBP flavour” of which is handily used by all my OS 8/9 work mates to send files whizzing everywhere. I would say it an outrageous oversight, but I’m happy to find a hack for the other bits. True I haven’t seen Fireworks or Dreamweaver all day, I currently have no classic environment. To be honest, I’m not sure my machine is up to it, despite having 400+mb of RAM. However, I can see some remote machines, fairly recent OS-ed ones, so I’ll concentrate on them. In the meantime I’ll get samba going and that will give me access to our office fileserver. Doh.

Places to look are hard to find, it’s another alien web community to get into. I just skimmed the surface of the Classic world. Hey, I haven’t gone to tucows yet. OS X FAQ looks handy. Versiontracker has a big collection of OS X software.