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Exactly! So run 7.6 on newer machines and make use of the IIfx's power by taking advantage of its ability to run old systems. And what the...How could anyone run a Leopard beta on a 68k machine? Where the heck did you hear that?

Actually it looks beautiful on that little screen!! For some reason, a tiny little CRT makes everything look pretty. If you try it you'll see what I mean. OK, it's cramped but it's visually pleasing. I hated the look of Tiger before but now I love it. And yes, that screen was formerly from...

Goshdangit!! [8D] My Wallstreet came with the British version installed too. First time I've ever used it - nice to see Wastebasket and Colour for once. It's the main thing that stops me from upgrading that machine to 9.

Yeah, exactly - it will have some localised elements but it will be an all-inclusive thing which, like everything international these days, will use American English.

"International English" being a euphemism for "American English" I presume. :p But yeah you're probably right, that'd be the one I'd say. As we French say, "mucho gracias, señor"!

Why would you want to run 7.6 on it? I thought the whole novelty would be running 6 or earlier and getting "wicked wicked wicked" fast speeds from it. :D

Yes that's exactly what it is, Macster. I'm using the Aussie version of the system. I don't know where to get the updater for that version of it.

I reluctantly concede defeat.

Ah, but I bet your floor is neater than my desque.

My current desk setup: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9451/desquetl8.jpg As you can see, the G4 has got the "good" monitor and keyboard and the Tiger machine has been relegated. Not really a Retrochallenge; just because I hate OS X. :p

That's surprising. I have a cd of 9.2.1 but for some reason the updater to 9.2.2 won't work.

I've got the second-newest version of Tiger and it doesn't have that.

Return to Zork (played most of it a few months ago but got stuck on one of the last puzzles!) HyperCard! PhrazeCrazePlus and Carmen Sandiego (two games I've had since the dawn of time, so it seems. Never get sick of them.) Oh and there was this awesome programme circa system 7.5 that changed...

Most people talk too much anyway. Shyness is a welcome change. :) Mate, I wrote the book on reverse psychology!! [8D] Oh absolutely. If I ever call you a stupid little Darjeeling, that will be another matter. :)

Yeah well all of my good creative programmes are for OSX. But they're all PowerPC aps, which is annoying. How the heck do you do that?? I know how to do the PDFs but not zips. The main things that annoy me about OS9 are the lack of drivers/lack of support for anything new - few of my...

Cool! Pity I don't actually have an install CD for it, but oh well. I was surprised by how close it is to 9. There's hardly any difference. That's not what I've heard re: the stability though. I always thought all the systems after 7.6 were considered less reliable than the earlier ones...

How's the stability of OS 8.6 vs 9.2? Any difference? My wallstreet came with 8.6 and I might just keep it on there rather than putting 9 on as originally planned. It seems to have all the good features of OS9 but it's missing some of the pointless ones as well as some of the stupid-ness...

Crikey, my G4 can't run OS9 at that resolution! Having been using OS9 as my main OS for the past few days, I'm starting to see its limitations. And I actually miss some of the features of OSX, which surprised me.

You must be the shyest bloke I’ve ever met, champ! That’s OK – I like shy people. I wish you’d have a bit more self-belief though. Yeah I was originally going to condescend to grace the facebook with my glorious countenance :) but if I did that I’d have nothing to bargain with, would I...

I just received her response back. She appears to be a very nice lady; was very apologetic and asked for the battery model number so she could chase up another one. I feel guilty now for assuming that she would be unhelpful. I guess I assumed that because you only hear of the bad stories on...