If you're planning on running the treasures of the past you'll find here on real old Macintosh hardware from the 90's, you sir/madame, deserve to win an Internet! For others, there's SheepShaver, a PowerPC emulator capable of running Mac OS 9.0.4 down to Mac OS 7.5.2 and there's Basilisk II, a 68k emulator, capable of running Mac OS (8.1 to 7.0). Jun 23, 2018 Whatever the older Macintosh computer is, to make it useful nowadays you’d likely want to find and download some old Mac software for it. This post will aggregate a collection of links and resources for finding and downloading old Mac software, including old Mac system software, old Macintosh applications, and more, for everything from older Intel Macs, to PowerPC Macs, to 68040. Power Mac G4 Towers (Quick Silver, MDD) and PowerBook G4 Titaniums (867 Mhz., 1.0 Ghz.) are the ultimate flagships in the OS 9 arena; both run OS 9 blazing fast. As for the 'No Budget' category, many scrap and e-waste facilities will give away Beige or Blue/White.
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First of all, you'll need Roxio's Toast, CharisMac's Discribe or other CD burning software to make a bootable CD, because Apple's Disc Burner can't create bootable CDs. This is a way that can be used with different burning applications (they just have to be able to install the necessary wrapper code to make a volume bootable): *start Disk Copy (usually located in the Utilities-folder), select Image>>>Create new Image... from the menu * fill in a name for the CD, make sure that a size of 663,000K (CD-ROM 12cm, full) is selected and 'Mount Image' is checked (checking the 'Zero blocks'-option also is a good idea) *save the image (usually to the desktop) *you can now use a Mac OS installer (your original Mac OS install CD, for example) to install a System Folder to that disc image (once installed, you can also update that system using any [download] updater) and add all applications you want (try to install them whenever possible, because simply copying things over will not always work) *when using Mac OS 9.2.x, remove these files from the System Folder: 'Classic', 'Classic Support' and 'Classic Support UI' *now run those applications on the disk image which require registration (e.g. a serial number) - otherwise they will ask for registration when booted from the CD and therefore might not work *disable any AutoUpdate- / LiveUpdate-features, as the applications on the CD can't be updated anyway once they've been burned *when running applications from the disk image, some applications might create preference files in the System Folder you are currently booted to - in that case, just copy those preference files to the System Folder on the disk image afterwards *now you should remove anything that may have been stored in 'Startup Items' or 'Shutdown Items' inside the disk image's System Folder; you might also want to remove some useless control panels, extensions, etc. and set the Energy Saver control panel to 'never go to sleep'; also set all other preferences/control panels to your preferred settings (once again, you might need to copy files over from the System Folder you're booted to for these changes to take effect) *when finished, burn the CD [when using Toast Titanium, set it to 'Other', select 'Mac Volume', click 'Select', choose the disc image from the menu, select 'bootable' and click 'Record'] - in case you're given the choice, make sure to select 'Mac OS Standard (HFS)' volume format, not 'Mac OS Extended (HFS+)' Useful links: * Mac OS 9.1 updater (updates Mac OS 9.0 - 9.0.4 to 9.1) * Mac OS 9.2.1 updater (updates Mac OS 9.1 or 9.2 to 9.2.1) * Mac OS 9.2.2 updater (updates Mac OS 9.2.1 to 9.2.2) * Disk First Aid 8.6.1 (in case you use an earlier version) * Movie from Macworld on the subject * How do I make a bootable CD for my Mac using Toast? (Article from Roxio's Knowledge Base) Mac Os 9 Download* Bootable CD tips from Symantec (Norton Utilities) Mac Os 9 Software Cd PlayerMac Os 9 Software
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