So what was all this outrage for the happy mac about?
Just came round to installing the Jag. Haven't tried it yet (my iBook's actually still puffing away at disc two), but I have seen the boot screen.
Now what's so bad about that?
I remember, it was one of the first threads I posted in, that there was some uproar about the passing of the happy mac, which I frankly don't understand.
At least this beats the crappers out the old picasso theme my parents still see on their Performa 630 (system 7.x).
And for those who have a portable mac: it's nicely the inverted apple from the outer shell.
Now what's so bad about that?
I remember, it was one of the first threads I posted in, that there was some uproar about the passing of the happy mac, which I frankly don't understand.
At least this beats the crappers out the old picasso theme my parents still see on their Performa 630 (system 7.x).
And for those who have a portable mac: it's nicely the inverted apple from the outer shell.
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A friendly face in a PC jungle, a piece of nostalgia.
The older Mac users will miss the little guy because he's an icon of an age when the Mac was king compared to windoze machines.
In my book the Mac still IS king, but walk into a PC superstore and you'd think again!?
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it". That's my thought on happy Mac. It's time for "Return of the happy Mac"
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Long live Happy Mac!
<strong>At least this beats the crappers out the old picasso theme my parents still see on their Performa 630 (system 7.x).</strong><hr></blockquote>He's close! But no cigar!!
The Happy Mac screen was displayed on ALL Macs. The Picasso Mac was displayed *after* the Happy Mac in the window with the "Welcome to Macintosh" message in systems until Mac OS 8.
So, your parents do still see the Happy Mac.
I used to have a Perform 638. Good machine that was.
Aye, poor Happy Mac. I knew him well.
<a href="http://www.resexcellence.com/bootimage/" target="_blank">HARHAR !!!</a>
<strong>He's close! But no cigar!!
The Happy Mac screen was displayed on ALL Macs. The Picasso Mac was displayed *after* the Happy Mac in the window with the "Welcome to Macintosh" message in systems until Mac OS 8.
So, your parents do still see the Happy Mac.
I used to have a Perform 638. Good machine that was. </strong><hr></blockquote>
You're also close! But still no cigar! The blue "MacOS" logo first appeared not in OS 8, but in OS 7.6. Before OS 7.6, all of the Mac operating systems were called "system (whatever)". So system 7.5 had the Picasso Mac, but OS 7.6 had the MacOS logo.