Loss Of Fluid Mac OS
adminJune 01 2021
Loss Of Fluid Mac OS
If normally updated it will not lose any data but if you want to clean install which is Good because latest os uses AFPS partition then you should backup which is a best practice. Another feature of Mac OS turned on by default on laptops is, that it saves all the memory to disk when entering sleep mode. This is to ensure your laptop does not lose your work if it runs out of battery while “sleeping”. The more RAM you have, the more gigabytes it writes to the disk every time you close the lid/put it to sleep.
Loss Of Fluid Mac Os X
I realize that most people only needed to emulate the Classic OS from a newer Mac because the Classic environment wasn't fast enough or not compatible with some old Mac program. Now that 97% of everyone is on OS X (warning: made-up statistic!), many of them on Intel Macs, I don't see much talk about emulation. The last versions of the two big Classic Mac emulators, Basilisk II and SheepShaver, were last updated in 2006 (August and May, respectively), so they obviously haven't been tested for compatibility with the newer Macs and versions of OS X.
Now, I personally am running a PPC Classic OS machine and a PPC OS X machine in addition to my MBP (well, duh, you can see that in my sig). So I get my 'emulation' by directly using an older Mac.
But I have this concern that, seeing as those emulators were never really 100% stable (or, frankly, even close to 100% stable AFAIK), we're going to get to the point where the Classic Macs (by which I mean PPC, pre-OS X) gradually stop running or can't be maintained any longer.
What then? After all, emulation is partly about preserving history; if no one thought that was important, we wouldn't have MAME. So, if we get to the point where the original machines don't run, it will be hard to write/update emulation software for them, and if we need the ROM from our old Mac to emulate it, and it doesn't run anymore... see what I mean? (I've already lost the opportunity to copy the ROM from my Performa 476, my first Mac... RIP.)
Am I the only one who doesn't want to lose the ability to emulate an older Mac on a newer Mac? Granted, it won't adversely impact my life if we lose this connection to the past. It's just that I don't see any talk about this recently, and that surprises me, since so many people have strong nostalgia for their System 7 days (or System 6, or Mac OS 8, it varies from person to person). Who's with me on this?
Now, I personally am running a PPC Classic OS machine and a PPC OS X machine in addition to my MBP (well, duh, you can see that in my sig). So I get my 'emulation' by directly using an older Mac.
But I have this concern that, seeing as those emulators were never really 100% stable (or, frankly, even close to 100% stable AFAIK), we're going to get to the point where the Classic Macs (by which I mean PPC, pre-OS X) gradually stop running or can't be maintained any longer.
What then? After all, emulation is partly about preserving history; if no one thought that was important, we wouldn't have MAME. So, if we get to the point where the original machines don't run, it will be hard to write/update emulation software for them, and if we need the ROM from our old Mac to emulate it, and it doesn't run anymore... see what I mean? (I've already lost the opportunity to copy the ROM from my Performa 476, my first Mac... RIP.)
Am I the only one who doesn't want to lose the ability to emulate an older Mac on a newer Mac? Granted, it won't adversely impact my life if we lose this connection to the past. It's just that I don't see any talk about this recently, and that surprises me, since so many people have strong nostalgia for their System 7 days (or System 6, or Mac OS 8, it varies from person to person). Who's with me on this?
Loss Of Fluid Mac OS