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Posted by: 68krazy on 2016-03-01 21:38:36
After trying a few different versions of MacOS, I have gone back to System 7.1 on my LC550. 7.5.3 felt a little sluggish. 7.1 is very fast, but a little barren. There is no clock on the menubar, which I really miss. There are no desktop patterns. It's really killing my Vintage Macintosh vibe. I want my Mac to feel a lot more customized and capable than what the vanilla install of 7.1 provides!
I know there is a lot of love for 7.1 around here. Can you guys share what things you like to install and tweaks you like to make to make it more like System 7.5/7.6?
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-03-01 21:55:49
For the menubar clock: SuperClock!
For the desktop patterns: I've heard Decor is good, though the Desktop Patterns control panel might work if you take it from a System 7.5.x install (the General control panel in 7.1 also allows for rudimentary control over the desktop pattern, but 7.5's thing is more fun, as you can get fairly complex graphics and stuff).
In fact, many things from 7.5 should be compatible with 7.1 (such as WindowShade), so you can actually get 7.1 to work and look more or less the same as 7.5 (you can also run many 7.5-only applications if you copy certain extensions from 7.5), but with somewhat less bloat. Be careful though, as the slowness of 7.5 is mostly due to those addons.
Hope this helps!
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Posted by: 68krazy on 2016-03-01 21:55:54
Mods, I just realized I should have posted this thread under Software. Could one of you move it for me?
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Posted by: 68krazy on 2016-03-01 22:01:10
Thank you CC, I'll install SuperClock and look into Decor! That definitely helps!
Sounds like I need to be careful with what I add, otherwise I would have been better off just keeping 7.5
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Posted by: John_A on 2016-03-01 22:43:41
System 7.1P made for Performa 600, has a General controls control panel with 10-12 or so desktop patterns.
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Posted by: bibilit on 2016-03-02 06:01:10
I have used Decor for a couple of systems, and is pretty good and easy to use.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-03-02 08:40:14
I have a bunch of System 7 tweaks at home, I can make a list and post them. 7.1.1 Pro is my favorite version of System 7. Off the top of my head, I have installed:
HAM (makes the Apple menu completely customizable & scriptable.)
SuperClock
Network Time (NTP control panel that syncs your clock - requires internet access, obviously)
Pyro! (Screen saver)
Drag & Drop extension
Disk Light (adds a little flashing HDD icon in the menu bar during disk access)
Window Shade
For instant tweaks, you could install Norton Utilities and Now Utilities. Both come with a suite of useful apps and tweaks to System 7.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-03-02 08:41:34
7.1.1 Pro plus tweaks is still better than 7.5.5 in my opinion. Besides, I like the old Welcome to Macintosh dialogue over the huge Mac OS dialogue they added in 7.5
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-03-02 08:45:10
Oh crap! I forgot the #1 System 6/7 tweak every computer should have, and is on every single one of my vintage computers:
The Grouch!
I love it because it's trash! 😀
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-03-02 08:46:19
Actually, the "Mac OS" Dialog came about *I think* with 7.5.1 or 7.5.2, and you can revert to the old screen quite easily in 7.5.3 by going in to whichever system files contain it, and deleting the pict resources for the new screen. I can't remember if I dried it on 7.5.5.
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Posted by: Paralel on 2016-03-02 13:00:24
Go for 7.1.2 68k (You need to start with System 7 Pro [7.1.1] and upgrade, you can't do a direct install of 7.1.2 68k), ita ctually runs the same finder (7.1.4) as 7.5.0, so you can really run just about anything that asks for 7.5.
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-03-02 20:12:57
And run them faster, since there's less bloat.
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