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AGP: ATI Radeon 8500 | NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600
PCI: ATI Radeon 7000 | ATI Radeon [no number, later renamed to "Radeon 7200"]
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The OS 9 Thread
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PCI: ATI Radeon 7000 | ATI Radeon [no number, later renamed to "Radeon 7200"]
You say that anything newer than Radeon 9000 is X-only, but then say that the AGP Radeon 9800 Pro does support OS 9. Could you clarify?
Also, I've heard that some newer Radeon cards don't have sleep compatibility, is that true?
Well up to the 9200 have full 9 support, it's just that the cards beyond that only have partial support. As in, no 3d acceleration. It'll boot, but it will work about as well as running it in an emulator.
That was inaccurate as @repairedCheese pointed out and I apologise. I was under the impression that the Radeon 9800 series fully works in OS 9 like the 9000 and 9200 do. I've now edited post #76 accordingly. Sorry again!
I really do wish the 9800 was fully supported, but we just can't have nice things. You basically have to choose between OS 9 and 10.5 because graphics cards that have full support for one don't for the other.
Yeah, it's either OS 9 or Core Image. Which is why I like having dedicated machines for 9 and X; no compromise necessary.
I've run into a weird OS 9 issue with the Wallstreet I recently revived: for whatever reason, the creator code associations seem to be messed up such that the Mac can't find the program that created a given file, even though I *know* they're installed and work fine (I can open the files manually after launching the program):
The main problem is Word and Powerpoint documents (Office 98 is installed and fully functional, Mac Clippy and everything), but there's also documents from Cricket Graph (an old data visualization program for early Macs), SuperANOVA (old stats software), and more that have the same issue.
Anyway, my main question is: how does OS 9 (and earlier) keep track of what apps are associated with what type/creator codes? I know the type/creator codes are in the resource forks, but since those seem fine (and Mac OS knows the name of the right program), how does Mac OS keep track of the locations of the apps associated with those codes? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, Google hasn't been particularly helpful on this!
The main problem is Word and Powerpoint documents (Office 98 is installed and fully functional, Mac Clippy and everything), but there's also documents from Cricket Graph (an old data visualization program for early Macs), SuperANOVA (old stats software), and more that have the same issue.
Anyway, my main question is: how does OS 9 (and earlier) keep track of what apps are associated with what type/creator codes? I know the type/creator codes are in the resource forks, but since those seem fine (and Mac OS knows the name of the right program), how does Mac OS keep track of the locations of the apps associated with those codes? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, Google hasn't been particularly helpful on this!
Was just typing the same thing…lol. Also check the file extensions association in the File Exchange control panel.
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I'm upset at OS 9's file copy implementation right now. Is there something better out there? Perusing the Garden has come fruitless, but maybe I'm missing something.
I'm upset at OS 9's file copy implementation right now. Is there something better out there? Perusing the Garden has come fruitless, but maybe I'm missing something.
