If I would take the step to OS X,
Is that possible with the 9500? I thought Apple didn't support anything before late G3's?
Xpostfacto will work.
I spent a long time with this on a 9500 with a G4/800 upgrade card. My recommendation for normal work is: don't do it. You won't be satisfied. The memory bandwidth kills it, and the quartz imaging system strains to the max any video you can put in this box. Also see my comment at the end of this message.
Now, for server work, it may be different. You can run it headless, and so eliminate the video issues. And servers don't get aggravated by how responsive a system is to opening and closing applications or their many windows, etc. But administering via VNC would be painful - I wouldn't run anything that can't be administered via command line.
1) would I better have SIMS running on a separate machine with the old OS (I have a spare IIci which ran SIMS before the 9500 came into service), or would it work in Classic mode of OS X?
Classic mode shouldn't be used for any servers. It's fine for the occasional use of a must-have application (in my case, ResEdit...) but it has a pile of issues for serious use and the TCP/IP hack that allows 2 operating systems to share network interfaces is disturbing, although it does mostly work as long you don't try to talk to the Classic side from the X side.
I thought people on this list had confirmed that SIMS would not work in Classic mode? Or does it work, but with your caveats listed above?
What minimum requirement would you think is necessary for the new machine? I could use a G3/300; is this fast enough? The web sites are not high traffic, and also mail is not high-volume.
For a webserver, the G3/300 should be fine as long as you load it up with RAM and don't try to make it do duty as a personal machine as well. I wouldn't run X on anything less than a G4/450 (i.e. a Cube or equivalent) for interactive use, but webserving is not very demanding.
Exactly, and from my experience, I claim a G4/800 is not an efficient use of resources, as servers are not computationally demanding.
Now, my 9500/G4/800 is running Linux/PPC. If you ever need a good demo of how much OSX eyecandy kills an otherwise fine OS, this is it. You can do everything you want to do with Linux, but the learning curve may not be to your taste. And, on another similar Linux/PPC box, I have been running SIMS quite robustly with Mac-on-Linux (MOL) for years.
Stefan Jeglinski
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