No More Classic!??!?!

Androo

Androo

Yeah, Androo.
i do not remember where i heard it, but apple might stop supporting classic system! even though us mac peoples rarely need it nowadays, how can i play Star Wars Racer and Escape from Monkey Island?
:(
please tell me this is a hoax (i love that word, it kind of rhymes with toast.)
 
Originally posted by Androo
i do not remember where i heard it, but apple might stop supporting classic system! even though us mac peoples rarely need it nowadays, how can i play Star Wars Racer and Escape from Monkey Island?
:(
please tell me this is a hoax (i love that word, it kind of rhymes with toast.)
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The new Macs don't allow booting into MacOS 9, but Classic works fine. There are, however, some MacOS 9 applications that are incompatible with Classic. If one of those is mission-critical to you and you have one of the new Macs, you are SOOL.
 
and this was announced at mwsf, so it's not exactly big news around here anymore. we've already had discussions of this issue.
 
Originally posted by Androo
how can i play Star Wars Racer and Escape from Monkey Island?
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Remember that their is no one forcing you to give up your older system. I still have Macs around me that are very important parts of my workflow that are more than 10 years old. I still have software that only runs on 680x0 systems that I still use today. Just because Apple released Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X, or put out systems running various forms of PowerPC processors doesn't mean that I lose what I already own.

No matter what Apple does tomorrow, what I have today is going to work the same.

:rolleyes:

No worries here. And I even own a copy of Star Wars Racer.
 
Never mind 'Star Wars Racer' - I don't play games on my Mac! Those of us who use QuarkXPress regularly need to use OS 9 and/or Classic at the moment - until Quark get their fingers out and release an OS X version.

Not that I could exactly afford it, even then....
 
Originally posted by porteous
Never mind 'Star Wars Racer' - I don't play games on my Mac! Those of us who use QuarkXPress regularly need to use OS 9 and/or Classic at the moment - until Quark get their fingers out and release an OS X version.
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*cough*Adobe inDesign *cough*
*cough* Quark licks monkey butt *cough*

:rolleyes:
 
it does....

BUT (the big important BUT)

its the industry standard right now and its what presses/printers like... cant really be avoided at the moment :(

I personally use InDesign as much as possible :)
 
Quark will unveil XPress 6 in time. (*cough*) ... Apple covers for the OS 9 needy until June. Yes, the 1.25G machines are expensive (the OS 9 ones), but then again those are rather the biggies that can't make the jump to InDesign. XPress people: Dive into InDesign 2. ID3 is on the way and will rock even more.
 
Originally posted by Jason
its the industry standard right now and its what presses/printers like... cant really be avoided at the moment :(
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All the publications that I've worked on in the last few years (5 monthly magazines that I can recall off hand) have transition from sending Quark documents to PDFs. All of them seem much happier with the results from the PDFs than the Quark documents (flight checked and everything) when seeing proofs and the final printing.

Most places want PDFs now. It is just less of a head ache. And with a PDF, it doesn’t matter what you used to create.

Besides, Quark has already hurt it's standing in the publishing community. I know of no one that has upgraded to QuarkXPress 5. Most of my clients don’t feel any pressure to change anything about what they are doing right now, so they are waiting to see how this plays out. Still, most seem to think that Quark sounds like it doesn’t want to be in this industry anymore.
 
- InDesign builds PostScript Level 3 documents (which differ a LOT from PS Level 2, transparency being one of the major changes).
- PostScrip Level 3 is not supported by most RIPs.

- Software changes very fast because of their little price.
- RIPs change very slowly because of their huge price (for instance, it'd cost $15.000 to my own printhouse to make the transition from their PS Level 2 Canon ColorPass to PS Level 3 RIP).

Thus, Quark 4 is still industry standard.
 
I think it's certainly true that Quark is still the industry professional typesetting/layout package of choice. Remember, things are slightly different in the UK and Europe - QuarkXPress 5 was only launched here a year ago, and the 5.01 update in July last year.

After the mess that surrounded the release of 4.0 a couple of years ago, people have been slow to run with 5.0 until they're absolutely sure it's stable and that all the bugs have been ironed out.

If you're running a design studio or agency you just can't afford to have those kind of things going wrong, and a lot of goodwill was lost last time. Folks are being more careful this time round.

As for Adobe InDesign - well, I don't know anyone who uses it. Call me out-of-touch....
 
I think it's certainly true that Quark is still the industry dtp package of choice. Remember, things are slightly different in the UK and Europe - QuarkXPress 5 was only launched here a year ago, and the 5.01 update in July last year.

After the mess that surrounded the release of 4.0 a couple of years ago, people have been slow to run with 5.0 until they're absolutely sure it's stable and that all the bugs have been ironed out.

If you're running a design studio or agency you just can't afford to have those kind of things going wrong, and a lot of goodwill was lost last time. Folks are being more careful this time round.

As for Adobe InDesign - well, I don't know anyone who uses it. Call me out-of-touch....
 
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