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wall
256 MB  Posts: 343 
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on: October 30, 2007, 16:48
http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/md07/1030.html It is one of these 761 rebel things of mine, but it is about the761. |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 18:30
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You're not getting the true 7.6.1 experience. The user interface is half the point. Come on, is Internet Explorer really worth that much excitement? Is slightly less terrible CSS rendering that important? I don't even use IE when I'm using Mac OS 8 or 9. It's just awful all around. Get Netscape 7 running then I'll be impressed. It's basically the only good classic browser. I'm starting to come of the opinion that if you really value accurately rendered web browsing, then you just plain shouldn't even be using anything other than Mac OS X. The classic Mac OS just doesn't handle it.
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wall
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256 MB Posts: 343
Reply #2 on: October 30, 2007, 20:29
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That article of mine, has nothing to do with the 517. It is of ResEditing 761 to pretend to be 8.1 and getting Real Player 8 to run in the 761, to be able to listen the BBC internet radio plus then some. My modded OS runs also Windows Media Player 7 btw. After getting the Sonnet 466 for my 1400, I spent ridiculous amounts of time to run different test configurations in it. I tried OSes 761(regular, with the AM, as ResEdited), 8.1, 8.6, and 9.1. In the end I decided to use the fully modded 761 of mine. It is fastest, most stable and modern enough to work in my everyday laptop. Much more stable than the 8.6 in this machine, which was a real surprise. My browser choices: 7.1-7.5.3 iCab 2.9.9 7.5.5-8.1 IE 5.1.7 8.5 iCab 3.0.3 8.6-9.x WaMCom I run practically only Classic OSes (761,8.6, 9.1 at the moment), althought I do have 10.2.8, but it is pretty useless for me as I do not have any real apps for it, and I can do all I need in 761-9.1. Including ALL my internet browsing. 10.3.9 would at least bring some freeware from the Linux side of the world in to the equation. For me there would be nothing to gain for going to X. I would need to upgrade all my already upgraded hardware and put a huge sum of money to apps to be able to do what I am already doing. That would make no sense at all. I am fluent enough in the classic side to run everything well. And I do not like the UNIX X. Of the choices in life and what and why's of running old low cost macs, there are some e-mails from readers of Tommy Thomas in LEM, that mirrors my ideas pretty well: http://www.lowendmac.com/thomas/tt07/1030.html Those are some reader responses to an earlier article of his. It starts with a X-man, but read on and you will get what I mean.
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92 
Reply #3 on: October 31, 2007, 15:36
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very cool article. I think it's wonderful the more options we have to run the software you need while keeping hardware out of the landfill. Great job !
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wall
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256 MB Posts: 343
Reply #4 on: November 05, 2007, 19:40
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Quote from: "dpaanlka" Get Netscape 7 running then I'll be impressed. It's basically the only good classic browser.. No NS7, but Outlook Express 5.0.6 runs great! Multiple accounts, authentication and HTML.
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #5 on: November 05, 2007, 21:03
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Quote from: "wall" Outlook Express 5.0.6 runs great! Yeah... but both IE and OE are just lousy at what they do. I just don't see how they're worth Appearance Manager and ResEdit hacks. What fun is Mac OS 7 when it doesn't look like Mac OS 7. If you're going to try your hardest to turn Mac OS 7 into Mac OS 8, then why not just run Mac OS 8. At least then you'd be able to run Netscape 7.
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wall
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256 MB Posts: 343
Reply #6 on: November 05, 2007, 21:35
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It is very hard even for myself to believe, but 761 with all the upgrades, add-ons and the hack is still faster and more stable in my 1400/466 than 8.1, 8.6 or 9.1. It should not be, being a patched job, but it is. And lets not forget all the apps I am running, that should not even work. After getting the 466 CPU, my actual goal was to run 8.6 or even 9.1. The 9 was clearly slower than 8.6, but useable with Ram Doubler 9. Both of these had a rubberband feeling in use. They were not actually slow ( about the same speed than a regular messed up XP pc), but crashing alot during testing, when I was trying all kind of stuff and hard restarts were the norm. Part of the stability problems with higher OSes has to be machine/CPU specific. I have forexample, Intego's FileGuard 4.1 and DiskGuard 2.1 Neither are promised to work with low OSes, but run nicely in a bog standard 7200/90 with 761, while FileGuard does not work in my 1400 with any OS at all! At least DiskGuard did in 8.6 and 9.1 I also tried 8.1 as a compromise, but with the same results. It was not a nice feeling, that after all the work, I was were I started from, more or less. Now everything really works fine, without a hitch of a problem, making me happy. So, I am using the 761, because it is good for me and gets the job done.
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