Great as Mac OSX is i do miss the old Finder and UI from pre-OSX Mac days (and even then look of the pre-System 8 days still can't be beat). Of course pre-Mac OSX crashed a lot, didn't have very good multitasking and less toys than OSX but some charm and fun was lost when Apple transitioned. I miss the days of trying a funky extension (remember the one that rendered your desktop in ASCII characters?) and
Resedit to do weird (and dangerous things) to your Mac.
Well we can't go back to those days on a modern Mac (though maybe i'll boot up one of my relics one of these days) but we can do a few things to make our uber-modern Macs more classic, more retro, only without da bomb. One thing i have done is use the excellent
Displaperture.app to give my desktop rounded edges, as Steve insisted
rounded rectangles are everywhere ok?
Another thing is to use a retro wallpaper. I used to like the green tartan wallpaper,
luckily some other people had a yearning for the old wallpapers too and they are available to download. Now all i need is Chooser and i will be in retro-Mac hog heaven.
