Now that I've regained myself and don't have that tear in my eye anymore from my speech, I'd like to detail a few things about the Classic Mac OS and maybe a few from Mac OS X's beta days.
First with the Mac OS X beta thing. Look at this window:
Now look at one of your windows in Mac OS X. How things change, huh? Your window is now named the name of the directory instead of "Finder", the buttons aren't huge big buttons, there's no single-window mode button, there's no search field (haha I laughed at the caption now that the search field is taken out again -- the caption hailed the search field as a nice new feature), and the back button and the path pop-up are now all on the same line.
Also, do any of you remember the shoddy "Music Player" that was included with the Mac OS X public beta? None of us knew that that was the precursor to iTunes.
On to the Classic Mac OS:
#1: Crystal Quest. Ever played that game? I used to play it all the time in black-and-white for hours. It's like this year's EV Nova.. it was so addictive. What with all the dumples (I think that's what they're called) and the things that almost always kill you when you shoot them because they die in a spray of fatal shot thingies, I miss that game so much. It can still be played under the Classic Environment of OS X (which is VERY surprising, seeing as it was the first color Mac game, built for System
6), but it often gets errors and you can't play it full screen. Ah, well. That game will always live in my memories.
#2: Easter eggs. Dang there were so many easter eggs in the Classic Mac OS. There was the pong/waving flag easter egg that came when you typed "secret about box" in the note pad and dragged it to the Finder to make a text clipping. There was the System 7 easter egg (that was taken out in later builds because it caused problems) that like on the 7th day of the 7th month, you go to the 7th menu in the Finder and select the 7th menu item and something interesting would pop up (I never saw it personally, but I heard about it). Then of course there's the Stickies easter egg where you typed something like "Camel!" in a sticky and if you waited for a few seconds, a picture of a camel would pop up. Ohh, those were the good days (for easter eggs, anyway).
#3: Dragging windows by the sides. This was a great time-saver in the Classic Mac OS, and I'm sad to have it gone in Mac OS X.
#4: Option-windowshading. Oh come on, I know you did that when you were in the Classic Mac OS. You open a bunch of windows, and then option click the window-shade button, and you hear a bunch of window shutters closing. I always loved that.
Do it again and you hear a bunch of them opening.
#5: Does anyone remember QuickTime 2.5? That version originally shipped with the original Myst game, by Broderbund and Cyan.
Too bad the developers of later Myst games decided to stop supporting the Mac OS and to have Mac game developers port the game.
