HEllo Starfish,

I am glad to hear that by insalling 10.1.3, that your computer is a happier computer, and things are going well for you. Yes, a lot of the older programs are going to still run, but they will run in what is called "classic" mode, and you will find yourself doing some dual setups to get classic to work properly.

For example, let's say you have Photoshop 5 on the computer. The program is a OS 9 program. Now that you are running 10.1, you have setup a printer to use in 10.1 IN order for Photoshop 5 to print, you will need to also setup a printer within the classic environment using the classic chooser.

Only when you upgrade your old programs to their OS X counterparts will you eliminate the need for classic.

Christian

Actually, you usually need to upgrade to the OS X version of your OS 9 programs. Since OS X works entirely differently "under the hood" than previous Mac OSes, it's usually not as simple as just downloading an update for your current programs. OS X versions of most of your current programs should be available though; check the company websites, your local computer store, and online software outlets to see what your options (and possible costs) are.

That's fine. If your current programs do the job for you and run properly in Classic mode there's really no need to spend extra $$ getting the native OS X versions.