#Sheepshaver mojave mac

Then I realised what it was - the gradual introduction of increasingly obnoxious notification settings and the slow transition from an open platform, to what I really believe will one day be a system that only allows apps installed from the App Store - and the day that happens is the day I burn my boxer-shorts and throw my Mac out of the window.(ok definitely not doing either of those things.)

#Sheepshaver mojave mac os x

The early days of OS X were also ok (10.0-10.3 were sluggish, os 10.4 was perfection, 10.5 awful (in my opinion) 10.6 snow leopard almost near perfection) however from Leopard onwards Mac OS X has lost something for me, and for years I didn't realise what it was because the changes were so slow. OS 9 and previous operating systems for me were truly fantastic - zero annoying popups. Yes, I want to add what I mentioned before. I don't know if those issues are in the Mac Multiplayer Gold version, but the music is broken in basically all of the Mac versions, because CD audio seems to be a disaster on Mac, so again, it's all kind of a mess 25 years later, and now I'm rambling) (Civilization 2 really didn't get done right by the Mac ports, but that's mostly down to not getting all the expansions, even if those were all 16-bit on Windows until the Multiplayer Gold version, which was broken in its own right. It's all tradeoffs, you pick and choose your battles, I get to do something I didn't really grow up with, and play the same or better ports of the games I did grow up with.

The likes of Tiger and Leopard really do have management and migration tools that put the likes of XP and Vista to shame. That's the best of both worlds right there. God, I don't miss that at all.Īnd besides, 80%-90% can be done in Classic anyway. It really is a good system for 90's retro gaming, though, and the moment I think about Windows from the same era, I have nightmares about IRQ setups.

There's irony in the fact that I bought the last Mac officially supported by OS 9. Using a Mac after that felt like being dragged into the past as the years went on, and my school had Macs in computer labs, so it wasn't like I could avoid them.

Going to go to bed before thinking about macos notification centre gives me a headache.Ĭlick to expand.Oh yeah, I got Windows 95 for a very early computer back when I was a kid, a 486 75mhz DX if memory serves, and it could absolutely multitask, especially once it had 32 mb of ram. the nextiTunes song started to play, or Sonos started the next track, or my screen time, or every single text message is displayed whilst I’m trying to use excel - go away).

#Sheepshaver mojave install

I remember back during those days we used to laugh at windows with all of its notifications/pop ups/requests to restart and install updates.THE NOTIFICATION CENTRE IN macOS IS THE MOST jarringly annoying thing I’ve ever used - I basically disable app notifications because every little thing is broadcast to me (e.g. I always preferred the interface in os 9, over X - not sure why, think it’s really understated and not in your face, which is actually how an OS should be.Īctually whilst on this subject. I have zero use For OS 9 - but I actually like to fire up ma lil PowerMac everyone once in a while and boot into 9 to remind myself of the good old days (which were not actually so good.) I’ve used sheepshaver in the past just for giggles - I always found os 9 crashed often.