I want to upgrade this mac g4 my bro sort of gave me. It is currently rockin'
mac os 9 and I want to get at least os x tiger. My question is that, after I upgrade ram and possibly add a second hard drive, will I have to re-install programs like photoshop and illustrator after installing a new operating system? Will I need the discs for such programs at any point of upgrading my operating system?

Also, a friend of mine is getting the new adobe creative suite - is it possible use his discs to load that shit on my rig? After all, I think my brother got the photoshop 5.02 that is running on the mac I got from a friend. Does that shit still work or have software companies caught on to that type of shit?

yes, you will have to re-install most things unless you keep the os 9 enviorment there too.

rats

when I did that upgrade, something got updated and still worked, but for the mostpart, I had to install everything and a lot of the things I used didn't get upgraded for osx so I had to flip back to 0s9 mode.

so, keeping my old operating system will essentially save any programs I have loaded on there? I'm assuming when you upgrade then that I will be asked if I want to save os9 on there too right? I'm really concerned about photoshop because I need to use it for a school project. Ill be damned if I upgrade and lose the program and be forced to finish my shit in the comp lab at school.

hail windows!

Macs teach users to be clueless. Use UNIX instead!88

try *nix asshole

no one thinks calling it by it's corporate surname is l33t

Os x is FreeBsd dickle weed

just download all the programs on bittorrent and do a fresh install u can get the serials off "serial box" also with a torrent

no d'uh... that's why when anti-racism said to use freebsd, I scratched my head.

He really meant to say to use HURD, on a VM running on a NeXT box