- #GRAPHICCONVERTER CRASHES MAC OS#
- #GRAPHICCONVERTER CRASHES SOFTWARE#
- #GRAPHICCONVERTER CRASHES MAC#
#GRAPHICCONVERTER CRASHES SOFTWARE#
I spent quite a lot of time developing in REALBasic, checking out the latest software on Macworld magazine discs, playing around/tinkering with various software, and of course modifying/customizing the system software with ResEdit. And that’s right, today loads of stuff relies on it. It wasn’t until later that my parents and myself understood the concept of search engines and actually started to use the Internet properly! So without an Internet connection, these days you’d think there wouldn’t be much to do on a computer. But at the time, the Internet as we know it was still young – Google had only been around for 2 years or so. I do remember occasionally using the Power Macintosh 4400 to visit some websites in Internet Explorer 3.0. My father did use 56k dialup for checking email (remember Eudora?) etc, but I didn’t use it. While I used them, the SE and Performa 6200 definitely didn’t have any modem connection. I didn’t start to frequently use the Internet until around 2002. I remember using SoundApp, File Buddy, ResEdit, ShrinkWrap, DOCMaker, Tex-Edit Plus, GraphicConverter, JPEGView, just to name a few. Most of these came from Macworld CD-ROMs. Later on, there were tons of various freeware, donateware, shareware applications I used.
If anyone remembers, SuperPaint was an ‘improved’ version of MacPaint with lots more features and stuff. Most kids were probably stuck with MacPaint, but I had SuperPaint, that’s just how cool I was. This meant I got to play with titles including Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (my favorite classic version of Photoshop, and the first to include Layers if I’m not mistaken), Aldus FreeHand and then later Macromedia FreeHand, and also Silicon Beach Software’s SuperPaint. My favorite as I’ve said was by far 7.6.1.Įven at a young age, I had access to very expensive software packages because my father was a graphic designer.
#GRAPHICCONVERTER CRASHES MAC#
And I definitely remember using System 7.5 and also 7.5.5 at some point, on my mother’s Power Macintosh 4400 (It’s probably not worth going into detail about why that particular Macintosh was terrible, I’m sure the die-hard Mac fans will remember). I remember System Software version 6.x.x (not sure which one exactly) being on the SE.
#GRAPHICCONVERTER CRASHES MAC OS#
It was great to migrate to a machine with more RAM, a G3 processor and the ability to run Mac OS 9.īut what to what I was talking about: software. I actually used the Performa 6200 until I got my first iMac in 2001.
It was the best version of System 7 and had a vast feature-set and was pretty reliable (as long as you didn’t have conflicting extensions, of course). I have fond memories of using System 7.6.1 on the Performa 6200. The Softwareīoth the SE and Performa 6200 were my computers at one time. I still want to know which Apple engineer thought that was a good idea. For example, the vent for the exhaust fan was where you’d place your CRT monitor, thus blocking the fan completely. The 6200 was far from the best Mac ever built, it had numerous engineering and design flaws. The Mac I remember the most of from back then is the SE, but also the Performa 6200 he had. Like with everyone, his needs outgrew the equipment he had, and he upgraded several times.
He also ended up buying software such as Aldus FreeHand and also invested a lot into an Apple LaserWriter II. He bought a new Macintosh SE sometime around 1988 from one of the few Mac dealers in existence in the north of the UK at the time. My father was a graphic designer at the time, and had been using Macs since he started as a graphic designer in the late 80s. From what I can remember, I started using computers when I was around 6 or 7 years old.
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