On-Topic digital camera (was Re: Camera's are off topic!)

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Wed Apr 21 20:23:57 2004

> You've just "got" to love some of those old Apple file formats :^( One of
> my chief reasons for buying my first Mac in 1995 was to run ClarisDraw.
> Guess when the last version of ClarisDraw was released. Granted I'm still
> able to run my copy on my G5 2x2 running Mac OS X 10.3.3, but it's the
> *only* thing that can read all my files :^(

This is something that greatly amuses me about OS X Classic: it seems the
older the application, the more compatible with Classic it is. System 6
apps run happily on my 10.2.8 dual G4, and yet a 8.6+ game of Shogo which
needs Apple OpenGL freezes at the title screen and requires me to force-quit
Classic.

I've been playing ZeroGravity, this System 6 game I played to death on my
best friend's dad's Mac Plus, on this dual G4, and other than the fact the
sound doesn't work (not too surprising), the game plays 100%. In fact,
even though I played it on an 8MHz 68000, on twin 1.25GHz G4s, the game
is still at a playable speed (a nice bonus, but seemingly paradoxical).

I also use an old copy of Caere OmniPage with my dual G4, which is 6.0.8
era, simply because it's faster OCR than any other package I possess or
have access to (I'm willing to put up with its finickiness about how it
wants the TIFF files because it works so well).

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