I am a fan on A-Dock as launcher/dock in OS 9. Better than DragThing for my way to interact with the machine. Never liked action go launcher too. But the launcher is just an option. I love the MacTron's approach to change MacOS 9 Finder app for your favorite DAW, app or Game! as a boot option that you cant have on OS X.
You can hide the dock in a OS X environment and use Opt + Tab to change between apps as in OS9.
I belive that you can make LinuxMiNT PPC with Gnome 2 looking and bahaving more than 9 than it will ever be possible with X.
I am open to all DAW options for my 3 PowerPC machines. But Protools and Logic are my favourites. Those apps can run in 9&X with my hardware with different results.
My Main DAW is Intel Quad with an Focusrite LiquidSaphire52. But on the left is a MDD 867 Dual with AM-3 and on the right a DA with a Digi 001 and a M-Audio 24/96. I own a XsKey that allow me Logic Platinum 4, 5, 6 and
7.
Since Tiger (And Panther with 3rd party drivers) all networked Macs are Midi connected and that is an advantage for some musicians with multiple macs.
I own only OS9 sound card (STUDI/O) , some Panther compatible hardware (001 and AM-3), only one card that support
also Tiger and Leopard (AP24/96) and a Tiger and Leopard OSX only seritek 2se4. I plan to build a Leopard Logic 7 setup taking advantage of the 2se4, but for now I am just happy with all the Loops OS9 compatible that those Logic 6-7 has gave me.
Logic 7 can use CPU resources from my Intel and PowerPC networked Macs if I make a >10.4.8 install on any machine.
My ProTools hardware is locked to OS9-Panther with up to Protools 6.2.3 or 6.4, but 002 and M-Box users can go up to 8.0.1 on their PowerPC Macs/Tiger/Leopard that has a serious plugin support. I have a guitarrist friend that worked on a ALU 17 PowerBook
[email protected] with M-Box 2 working with PT 7 on Tiger and 8 on Leo/Tiger with Pacifist for years. We could exchange project with my PT 7.4 MPowered on a XP Pentium D setup.
But Protools is the only DAW that allows you to
save copy in
and have even a Protools
4.x session if you want to exchange projects to old machines AFAIK.
I need to boot OSX Protools to make
serious editing because PT 5 LE in OS9 has half the keycomands than PT5TDM or PT6LE that also my main DAW with PT10HD has. But editing is just a part of the DAW use.
I love the OS9 Virtual Instruments, but Stylus RMX is a awesome tool and many more OSX only synths. And AudioUnit plugs ... It is just another generation!
You can run up to Logic 9 on a Leo G4 boot.