Two Steps Forward, One Step Back…
I burned some video DVD’s this week. I got into making labels for them, and the software I’ve been using is a package called “Click N Design 3D”. Unfortunately, I discovered it wouldn’t run under Panther and would crash as it tried to launch.
It’s a Carbon application, and my Quicksilver Powermac will boot into OS 9. The application runs fine there, but printing on my HP Deskjet 940C was painfully slow. There were no helpful updates to Click N Design nor any likely; the program had been sold to a company named CD Stomper and they only support Windows. Too bad. I would have paid for an update,
I searched the web for another CD labeling program that ran in OS X. I tried a demo of Discus; and while it supported a broader range of label formats than Click N Design, its interface was too simplistic for my tastes. Click and Design lets you “drag and drop” photos onto its template, centering it and “cutting” it for you, something that would take a bit of time if you were doing it manually. I really liked the program and wanted to continue using it. But how?
When I explained my problems to my wife, she asked if the program ran under Jaguar (OS 10.2). My iBook was still running Jaguar, so I installed Click N Design on it and started it up. It ran like a champ! Then, I could either run the program on my iBook or “downgrade” one of my machines from Panther back to Jaguar. (There are a lot of Firewire 800 drive owners who might be doing exactly that today.) I wanted to run the program on something with a reasonably fast G4 processor, so I would either take my iMac back to Jaguar or install Jaguar on my Quicksilver PowerMac’s second hard disk. While I was thinking about that, I realized there was another solution.
One of the beauties of a Mac is its ability to boot from external hard drives. I had an external Firewire 400 hard drive I was using for data backup. I could install Jaguar to it and boot the PowerMac from it only when I needed to use Click and Design. Additionally, if I needed Jaguar on one of my other machines, that approach would allow me to the Firewire drive to any other Mac and, voila!, instant Jaguar. And all my data files would remain intact, though at a slightly higher risk of loss.
I installed Jaguar on the drive and updated it to 10.2.8 using the combo updater. The PowerMac boots off it flawlessly. I simply turn on the Firewire drive, boot the PowerMac into Panther, go to System Preferences/Startup Disk, select the 10.2 disk as the start up drive, and reboot. After that, until I select 10.3 as the start up disk in 10.2’s System Preferences, the Mac will boot straight into the 10.2 (Jaguar) disk just like it was installed in the system. All I need do is make sure it’s turned on before I boot the PowerMac, and I’m there.
Click and Design runs like a champ on Jaguar. I immediately printed out the DVD cover I’d been trying to since late yesterday.
Ahhh, there’s nothing like the sweet smell of success!
It’s a Carbon application, and my Quicksilver Powermac will boot into OS 9. The application runs fine there, but printing on my HP Deskjet 940C was painfully slow. There were no helpful updates to Click N Design nor any likely; the program had been sold to a company named CD Stomper and they only support Windows. Too bad. I would have paid for an update,
I searched the web for another CD labeling program that ran in OS X. I tried a demo of Discus; and while it supported a broader range of label formats than Click N Design, its interface was too simplistic for my tastes. Click and Design lets you “drag and drop” photos onto its template, centering it and “cutting” it for you, something that would take a bit of time if you were doing it manually. I really liked the program and wanted to continue using it. But how?
When I explained my problems to my wife, she asked if the program ran under Jaguar (OS 10.2). My iBook was still running Jaguar, so I installed Click N Design on it and started it up. It ran like a champ! Then, I could either run the program on my iBook or “downgrade” one of my machines from Panther back to Jaguar. (There are a lot of Firewire 800 drive owners who might be doing exactly that today.) I wanted to run the program on something with a reasonably fast G4 processor, so I would either take my iMac back to Jaguar or install Jaguar on my Quicksilver PowerMac’s second hard disk. While I was thinking about that, I realized there was another solution.
One of the beauties of a Mac is its ability to boot from external hard drives. I had an external Firewire 400 hard drive I was using for data backup. I could install Jaguar to it and boot the PowerMac from it only when I needed to use Click and Design. Additionally, if I needed Jaguar on one of my other machines, that approach would allow me to the Firewire drive to any other Mac and, voila!, instant Jaguar. And all my data files would remain intact, though at a slightly higher risk of loss.
I installed Jaguar on the drive and updated it to 10.2.8 using the combo updater. The PowerMac boots off it flawlessly. I simply turn on the Firewire drive, boot the PowerMac into Panther, go to System Preferences/Startup Disk, select the 10.2 disk as the start up drive, and reboot. After that, until I select 10.3 as the start up disk in 10.2’s System Preferences, the Mac will boot straight into the 10.2 (Jaguar) disk just like it was installed in the system. All I need do is make sure it’s turned on before I boot the PowerMac, and I’m there.
Click and Design runs like a champ on Jaguar. I immediately printed out the DVD cover I’d been trying to since late yesterday.
Ahhh, there’s nothing like the sweet smell of success!
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