Quark Bashing: Join in the fun!
If you're the sort of Mac classicist who still goes to bed each night
sobbing over the loss of the rainbow Apple logo, the dismantling of the
Icon Garden, the retirement of the Happy Mac boot icon, and the
de-emphasis of Clarus the Dogcow, you probably cried yourself a river a
couple of months back when Apple officially announced the death of Mac
OS 9-- by indicating that starting this January all new Macs will boot
only into Mac OS X. Oh, sure, Mac OS 9 will live on in the Classic
environment, but it's just not the same, you know? Sometimes you just
want to boot into an operating system designed for mid- eighties-era
hardware and paradigms, and not just run it as a protected process for
access to ancient outdated applications like MacPaint, the original
Dark Castle, and QuarkXPress 5.
sobbing over the loss of the rainbow Apple logo, the dismantling of the
Icon Garden, the retirement of the Happy Mac boot icon, and the
de-emphasis of Clarus the Dogcow, you probably cried yourself a river a
couple of months back when Apple officially announced the death of Mac
OS 9-- by indicating that starting this January all new Macs will boot
only into Mac OS X. Oh, sure, Mac OS 9 will live on in the Classic
environment, but it's just not the same, you know? Sometimes you just
want to boot into an operating system designed for mid- eighties-era
hardware and paradigms, and not just run it as a protected process for
access to ancient outdated applications like MacPaint, the original
Dark Castle, and QuarkXPress 5.
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