**A G4 Cube's Hidden Gems: Exploring Mac OS X Tiger and Older Applications**

I booted up my G4 cube and was greeted by the familiar sight of Macintosh HD, which had Leopard installed on it. However, I soon discovered that this single hard drive contained two volumes: Leopard and a separate volume for Mac OS X Tiger. As I initiated the start-up process, Classic Mode began to load, revealing the classic Aqua interface that still holds a special place in my heart.

I couldn't help but notice the subtle differences between the old and new systems. The current system boasts a more modern design with a white glossy menu bar and blue Apple logo, whereas the classic Mac OS X Tiger retains its iconic Aqua look. While I prefer the sleeker appearance of the newer system, there's still something charming about the retro aesthetic of the older version.

As I navigated the Classic Mode desktop, I found an Applications folder that allowed me to access older applications, including those compatible with OS 9. Right-clicking on the folder brought up a menu of available apps, and I selected Adobe Photoshop 1.0, which dated back to 1987. The program loaded quickly, and I was able to explore its limited features.

The About panel revealed some interesting information about the applications. Notably, Mac App, an essential utility for the older systems, had a copyright date of 1985-86-87, while Photoshop 1.0 was copyrighted in 1989-1990. As I worked with the program, I discovered that it could be used as a basic paint application, complete with tools like eyedroppers and pencils.

To further explore the capabilities of this vintage system, I opened other panels, including Rulers, Palettes, Brushes, and Histograms. With the program in full-screen mode, I found myself able to manipulate colors and apply filters, such as Gaussian blur. Although my attempts at creative editing may have been a bit...uninspired, it was clear that Photoshop 1.0 still held some charm.

In addition to Photoshop 1.0, the G4 cube also featured other old applications, including Graphing Calculator, Firepower (a graphics tester), and Solitaire. The latter included a humorous image of Steve Jobs and allowed players to flip cards. While I couldn't stay engaged for long with these programs, it was fascinating to see them in action.

As I concluded my exploration of the G4 cube's OS 9 compatibility, I realized that there wasn't much else on this system beyond what I had already discovered. The computer's primary function seemed to be serving as a nostalgic bridge between older and newer systems, offering a glimpse into Apple's history and evolution.

With my demonstration complete, I shut down Classic Mode and the G4 cube itself, leaving behind a treasure trove of vintage applications and hardware that will remain on display for anyone interested in exploring the rich history of Apple computers.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello this is hildron from the cc here today to show you the imac g4 oh sorry that's the wrong thing that's not the imac g4 this is the imac g4 as you can see by its beauty this is one of my favorite apple designs it's a lot like the luxo lamp from pixar and of course we know steve jobs has something to do with apple and pixar so that's maybe where part of this design came from i like the swivel screen i just like the way it looks like it's holding the screen in midair and the dome shape it's a really good all-in-one computer so i got this on ebay for 30 dollars it was a pretty good deal and i got these external pro speakers from apple uh they're from apple but i actually got them from ebay technically because they're older and i got those for about forty dollars and they just plug in through usb so i'm gonna go boot this thing up now all right here goes there's our boot sound and if we look over here you will see that we have this lovely apple pro keyboard hooked up it's the black model as you can see and we've got the apple mighty mouse which it's now just referred to as the the apple mouse and it's got that cool all-in-one design with the it looks like one button but it actually can tell right and left click it has the center button with 360 scrolling and the side buttons for other functions so those are the two user interface peripherals we have installed here so we can obviously use the computer okay so here we have the desktop i've got a a little audio file on there that's about it so far i don't really clutter my desktop much so let's go do some stuff i'm going to bring the doc up here as well and i'll just move this into my folder there so this is the desktop of mac os 10 leopard that will be version 10.5 and i believe it's the 8th update 10.5.8 and originally the imac g3 is not supposed to run that high of a version but you can hack hack it up to run leopard but it will not run that well i will tell you that right now there are some graphical issues there are some stalling issues and it's only got a 700 megahertz processor that i book g3 has a 1.33 gigahertz processor so it is significantly faster that's why i'm thinking of installing apps like final cut express on there and stuff like that because it'll be able to run that a lot better and uh live type as well so i'm going to show you around this thing does connect to the internet but i don't have it connected right now because i have to actually do it through internet sharing because the ethernet works but the wireless won't just due to the fact that it doesn't have airport extreme capability so i'm going to open up let's open up final cut express first and we'll start with that with our software demo for today all right we'll register later and here we go final cut express hd this is version 3.0 all right i'll hide the dock for this so here we go final cut express 3.0 is right here and let's just do some simple things let's go to text and then scroll that's what i want so take the text put in our timeline here and we could type something in there like computer clan rules and then we have our scrolling text there and we could do a lot of stuff with it we could make this text larger we could go to our motion tab and add in uh drop shadows and all that stuff we could uh make the shadow a different color so it looks like a glow so yeah you could actually use this as an editor if you would really want to it's probably not that ideal because it's older but i just wanted to test it out and actually runs final cut express 3.0 quite well uh let's check let's check out the render times yeah as you can see the render times are pretty pathetic but it's old what can i say you can play back the video but it will be choppy unless you actually render it out and after that much time we've only gotten that much done and then the rest will just show up as unrendered so that's uh doing something simple in front of cut express there let's close out of that it's going to live type this is the titling saw for which now apple does not make because you can get motion for 49 which is a gazillion times more capable it's the equivalent to adobe after effects and it has a lot of capabilities i haven't even gotten through to all them heck i haven't even gotten through to all the capabilities on live type but i prefer to use motion because it's obviously a lot newer and all that good stuff so we can go through all the fancy title effects i have installed here let's uh let's see what one should we do that's a cool one that's cool a lot of these are cool really i have a oh that's my pro series uh let's do we'll do this fire one we'll apply to a new track and type something in there cc rules and there you go we can have that and we could obviously uh put in the background too if you'd like let's go to i think that's under textures digital let's see i'll throw in this one applied a new track and there we go we got our nice little title there very simple it won't play back in real time until it like renders itself out and i don't even know if it's set to have any motion i think it is but it's just not playing back right because once again not optimal settings but if i put this onto the ibook i'm sure it'll run a lot better so there's live type let's uh quit that no we do not need to save okay so i have quite a bit of other software on here let's peruse the applications oh an old version of imovie i'll show you that let me open that up here i believe this is version two if i'm not mistaken maybe it's three i don't know i was experimenting with a still here with uh effects and stuff i believe let me check the version yes it is three okay let me close that going to timeline mode it has that old apple brushed metal looking theme you could apply titles to anything by going through the title browser here and um oh there's also effects of course let's say like um oh yeah i already had that uh that like pixie dust effect right there just experimenting with that so yeah this is the old imovie it's definitely a lot different than it is now the new imovie i cannot run on here just because the clock speed of the processor is not high enough but the ibook g3 should be able to handle that and i've got quite a other quite a bit of other stuff on here soundtrack minecraft's on here but it doesn't work for crap um old version of internet explorer which i've shown you in previous videos iphoto 09 i believe that is and one of the more unique ones is an older version of garageband i don't think it's too old though i think it's version 09 um it's pretty sluggish on here but it works so we could say create new project and we'll just give it a random name save it to the desktop ah yes this actually is one of the older ones that i was thinking of where the interface is white the current interface kind of has that sort of dark color scheme so this is actually quite different this is actually the version i wanted to show you so yay the interface did change a lot over time so we could plug in a keyboard and play instruments and stuff uh we could use a microphone to record sounds or we can go to the loops browser and choose something so i could go to like synths and i could actually play something from here just like in the modern garage band except it looks different and just apply these into the track wherever i'd like okay so i was checking my hard drive and i actually remembered that i put tiger back on here i used to have it on an external drive so i'm gonna boot up into this and show you a bit of tiger that's on this imac and i have os 9 applications on there as well so you get to see even older stuff from the mac os and yes i used to have ubuntu on here and it ran okay but eventually i was just like i don't need to keep it on here i think i still have it on my g4 cube though i took it off mainly because i needed to change the partition table to get my tiger stuff on here okay so here's the macintosh hard drive which has leopard on it and this is uh actually these are all one hard drive but that's the volume and this is the tiger hard drive and classic is starting up right now so you can see that so yes this is mac os x tiger i do like uh the old aqua look of this a bit but i still think the current system is a lot more modern but you got like the white glossy menu bar and the blue apple logo here and there's a lot more aqua to it aqua is changing a lot there's less aqua if you would say it that way because there's a lot less blue but it's still aqua and it's still apple's awesome original interface and i still really like it but i like some of the looks of the old system as well so just to verify once this comes up yes os 10.4 oh this could use a software update because um i think 10.4.11 is what we have so now that i've got os9 compatibility running side by side i can click on this applications folder and it will bring me to actually i'll do it this way i'm going to right click on it and it'll bring me a menu of os9 applications so i can go to something like adobe photoshop 1.0 this goes way back um version well 107 copyright up to 1987 there so yeah this is really old let's just verify the uh about panel yep looks like yeah copyright 1989 to 1990 and then mac app is copyright 1985 86 87 apple computer incorporated and as you can see it's got that classic mac os look so we can go to file new and here we have a photoshop document no layers there was no layers in photoshop one but you could still do some stuff and this is all black and white so i could make a gradient i could you know draw oh that was an eyedropper i meant to choose a pencil uh yes we can draw things and uh yeah i'm just kind of using it like as a paint program right now but i think i can open up other panels here oh it's full screen mode uh how do i open up other panels let's see show rulers show palettes show brushes show histogram oh yeah that's not going to be a real time instagram obviously so yes i can change the uh size here oh i think i actually could do colors since i'm running this on a color system i could actually do colors oh yes i actually can do colors well would you look at that so there i got a nice ugly finder face there but we can also actually apply filters there was filter support i can go do like a blur um i might have done that totally wrong gaussian blur there we go now we can type in a value 9 pixels and there calculates a blur so yeah this is a photoshop one i will discard those changes i think i might have shown you that a while ago on my g4 cube but i could be totally wrong about that it's been a while let's see what other old applications we have we oh photoshop two um graphing calculator that's just a graphing calculator that comes on os9 firepower i believe this is like a graphics tester i don't know if it'll run in this environment though oh let's try go yeah it's not working but it like animates fireworks to test your graphics performance but that's mainly for older computers oh we got max solitaire this is an old os9 solitaire game as you can see there's a huge funny picture of steve jobs right there i would scroll in if i could but i can't apparently and you can play solitaire let's see gotta move here and yeah it looks like we have to flip cards already well that's going great so far oh then we got to move here and etc i'm not going to play the whole game obviously that'll take a while so that's what i've got on os9 here and on os 10 i don't think i have any other apps really because i just mainly use it for os9 compatibility and there you have it that's what i've got on the g4 here so i hope you enjoyed this little demonstration of one of my favorite old apple computers one of its more successful all-in-ones i must add and i hope you enjoyed the three versions of the mac os and their programs so that concludes this demonstration i'm going to turn off classic and turn off the computer here i hope you enjoyed and i will see you as always in the next one youhello this is hildron from the cc here today to show you the imac g4 oh sorry that's the wrong thing that's not the imac g4 this is the imac g4 as you can see by its beauty this is one of my favorite apple designs it's a lot like the luxo lamp from pixar and of course we know steve jobs has something to do with apple and pixar so that's maybe where part of this design came from i like the swivel screen i just like the way it looks like it's holding the screen in midair and the dome shape it's a really good all-in-one computer so i got this on ebay for 30 dollars it was a pretty good deal and i got these external pro speakers from apple uh they're from apple but i actually got them from ebay technically because they're older and i got those for about forty dollars and they just plug in through usb so i'm gonna go boot this thing up now all right here goes there's our boot sound and if we look over here you will see that we have this lovely apple pro keyboard hooked up it's the black model as you can see and we've got the apple mighty mouse which it's now just referred to as the the apple mouse and it's got that cool all-in-one design with the it looks like one button but it actually can tell right and left click it has the center button with 360 scrolling and the side buttons for other functions so those are the two user interface peripherals we have installed here so we can obviously use the computer okay so here we have the desktop i've got a a little audio file on there that's about it so far i don't really clutter my desktop much so let's go do some stuff i'm going to bring the doc up here as well and i'll just move this into my folder there so this is the desktop of mac os 10 leopard that will be version 10.5 and i believe it's the 8th update 10.5.8 and originally the imac g3 is not supposed to run that high of a version but you can hack hack it up to run leopard but it will not run that well i will tell you that right now there are some graphical issues there are some stalling issues and it's only got a 700 megahertz processor that i book g3 has a 1.33 gigahertz processor so it is significantly faster that's why i'm thinking of installing apps like final cut express on there and stuff like that because it'll be able to run that a lot better and uh live type as well so i'm going to show you around this thing does connect to the internet but i don't have it connected right now because i have to actually do it through internet sharing because the ethernet works but the wireless won't just due to the fact that it doesn't have airport extreme capability so i'm going to open up let's open up final cut express first and we'll start with that with our software demo for today all right we'll register later and here we go final cut express hd this is version 3.0 all right i'll hide the dock for this so here we go final cut express 3.0 is right here and let's just do some simple things let's go to text and then scroll that's what i want so take the text put in our timeline here and we could type something in there like computer clan rules and then we have our scrolling text there and we could do a lot of stuff with it we could make this text larger we could go to our motion tab and add in uh drop shadows and all that stuff we could uh make the shadow a different color so it looks like a glow so yeah you could actually use this as an editor if you would really want to it's probably not that ideal because it's older but i just wanted to test it out and actually runs final cut express 3.0 quite well uh let's check let's check out the render times yeah as you can see the render times are pretty pathetic but it's old what can i say you can play back the video but it will be choppy unless you actually render it out and after that much time we've only gotten that much done and then the rest will just show up as unrendered so that's uh doing something simple in front of cut express there let's close out of that it's going to live type this is the titling saw for which now apple does not make because you can get motion for 49 which is a gazillion times more capable it's the equivalent to adobe after effects and it has a lot of capabilities i haven't even gotten through to all them heck i haven't even gotten through to all the capabilities on live type but i prefer to use motion because it's obviously a lot newer and all that good stuff so we can go through all the fancy title effects i have installed here let's uh let's see what one should we do that's a cool one that's cool a lot of these are cool really i have a oh that's my pro series uh let's do we'll do this fire one we'll apply to a new track and type something in there cc rules and there you go we can have that and we could obviously uh put in the background too if you'd like let's go to i think that's under textures digital let's see i'll throw in this one applied a new track and there we go we got our nice little title there very simple it won't play back in real time until it like renders itself out and i don't even know if it's set to have any motion i think it is but it's just not playing back right because once again not optimal settings but if i put this onto the ibook i'm sure it'll run a lot better so there's live type let's uh quit that no we do not need to save okay so i have quite a bit of other software on here let's peruse the applications oh an old version of imovie i'll show you that let me open that up here i believe this is version two if i'm not mistaken maybe it's three i don't know i was experimenting with a still here with uh effects and stuff i believe let me check the version yes it is three okay let me close that going to timeline mode it has that old apple brushed metal looking theme you could apply titles to anything by going through the title browser here and um oh there's also effects of course let's say like um oh yeah i already had that uh that like pixie dust effect right there just experimenting with that so yeah this is the old imovie it's definitely a lot different than it is now the new imovie i cannot run on here just because the clock speed of the processor is not high enough but the ibook g3 should be able to handle that and i've got quite a other quite a bit of other stuff on here soundtrack minecraft's on here but it doesn't work for crap um old version of internet explorer which i've shown you in previous videos iphoto 09 i believe that is and one of the more unique ones is an older version of garageband i don't think it's too old though i think it's version 09 um it's pretty sluggish on here but it works so we could say create new project and we'll just give it a random name save it to the desktop ah yes this actually is one of the older ones that i was thinking of where the interface is white the current interface kind of has that sort of dark color scheme so this is actually quite different this is actually the version i wanted to show you so yay the interface did change a lot over time so we could plug in a keyboard and play instruments and stuff uh we could use a microphone to record sounds or we can go to the loops browser and choose something so i could go to like synths and i could actually play something from here just like in the modern garage band except it looks different and just apply these into the track wherever i'd like okay so i was checking my hard drive and i actually remembered that i put tiger back on here i used to have it on an external drive so i'm gonna boot up into this and show you a bit of tiger that's on this imac and i have os 9 applications on there as well so you get to see even older stuff from the mac os and yes i used to have ubuntu on here and it ran okay but eventually i was just like i don't need to keep it on here i think i still have it on my g4 cube though i took it off mainly because i needed to change the partition table to get my tiger stuff on here okay so here's the macintosh hard drive which has leopard on it and this is uh actually these are all one hard drive but that's the volume and this is the tiger hard drive and classic is starting up right now so you can see that so yes this is mac os x tiger i do like uh the old aqua look of this a bit but i still think the current system is a lot more modern but you got like the white glossy menu bar and the blue apple logo here and there's a lot more aqua to it aqua is changing a lot there's less aqua if you would say it that way because there's a lot less blue but it's still aqua and it's still apple's awesome original interface and i still really like it but i like some of the looks of the old system as well so just to verify once this comes up yes os 10.4 oh this could use a software update because um i think 10.4.11 is what we have so now that i've got os9 compatibility running side by side i can click on this applications folder and it will bring me to actually i'll do it this way i'm going to right click on it and it'll bring me a menu of os9 applications so i can go to something like adobe photoshop 1.0 this goes way back um version well 107 copyright up to 1987 there so yeah this is really old let's just verify the uh about panel yep looks like yeah copyright 1989 to 1990 and then mac app is copyright 1985 86 87 apple computer incorporated and as you can see it's got that classic mac os look so we can go to file new and here we have a photoshop document no layers there was no layers in photoshop one but you could still do some stuff and this is all black and white so i could make a gradient i could you know draw oh that was an eyedropper i meant to choose a pencil uh yes we can draw things and uh yeah i'm just kind of using it like as a paint program right now but i think i can open up other panels here oh it's full screen mode uh how do i open up other panels let's see show rulers show palettes show brushes show histogram oh yeah that's not going to be a real time instagram obviously so yes i can change the uh size here oh i think i actually could do colors since i'm running this on a color system i could actually do colors oh yes i actually can do colors well would you look at that so there i got a nice ugly finder face there but we can also actually apply filters there was filter support i can go do like a blur um i might have done that totally wrong gaussian blur there we go now we can type in a value 9 pixels and there calculates a blur so yeah this is a photoshop one i will discard those changes i think i might have shown you that a while ago on my g4 cube but i could be totally wrong about that it's been a while let's see what other old applications we have we oh photoshop two um graphing calculator that's just a graphing calculator that comes on os9 firepower i believe this is like a graphics tester i don't know if it'll run in this environment though oh let's try go yeah it's not working but it like animates fireworks to test your graphics performance but that's mainly for older computers oh we got max solitaire this is an old os9 solitaire game as you can see there's a huge funny picture of steve jobs right there i would scroll in if i could but i can't apparently and you can play solitaire let's see gotta move here and yeah it looks like we have to flip cards already well that's going great so far oh then we got to move here and etc i'm not going to play the whole game obviously that'll take a while so that's what i've got on os9 here and on os 10 i don't think i have any other apps really because i just mainly use it for os9 compatibility and there you have it that's what i've got on the g4 here so i hope you enjoyed this little demonstration of one of my favorite old apple computers one of its more successful all-in-ones i must add and i hope you enjoyed the three versions of the mac os and their programs so that concludes this demonstration i'm going to turn off classic and turn off the computer here i hope you enjoyed and i will see you as always in the next one you\n"