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OS classic

  • 22-04-2007 9:49pm
    #1
    atilladehun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭


    I've come across this problem but have never really wanted to sort it out as much as I do now. I have a small recording studio desk and have recorded some music that I wish to put on my computer. there was no cd for software when I got the unit, but I was able to download it from the website. Its got a a usb port on it, I was kind of hoping it would be recognised an external hard disk but it isn't.

    Anyway enough of the rambling I want to know how to have os classic 9.1 on my computer. I have osx 10.9.3. Can I just download it legally? Do I need to buy it. Do I just down load a normal copy of os9.1 or is there special versions that work within osx.

    Any advice or links to advice would be appreciated.
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
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    atilladehun wrote:
    I have osx 10.9.3.

    I think you mean 10.3.9, or 10.4.3 perhaps.

    Anyway what kind of mac do you have? OS9/Classic won't run on intel macs but there is a program called SheepShaver which can emulate a PPC. I don't think it can emulate 9.1 however, only as far as 9.0.4.

    And OS9 can't be legally downloaded afaik.


  • #3
    atilladehun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭atilladehun


    Hi,

    Cheers yeah I have 10.3.9. Its a PPC, 12" ibook 1.2GHz G4.
    Ok so I can't get it legally, I'm going to root out my install discs, os there any chance classic will be on it? like X tools or whatever its called. theres a classic startup icon on mt computer, and a classic folder so I know the potential is there somehow.

    Thanks


  • #4
    Sad Professor
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    atilladehun wrote:
    Ok so I can't get it legally, I'm going to root out my install discs, os there any chance classic will be on it?

    'fraid not. I've a iBook G4 1Ghz and it didn't come with OS9. Apple stopped including it with OSX sometime after 10.2 or before. Also it's unlikely you'd even be able to boot OS9 as most G4s sold after 2002 couldn't (mine can't afaik). You would however be able to run it as Classic from within OSX. The Classic environment was used during the transition to OSX but it was very slow and heavy on system resources. There's no guarantee the app you need will work correctly (or at all) under it.


  • #5
    Gauge
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    atilladehun wrote:
    Hi,

    Cheers yeah I have 10.3.9. Its a PPC, 12" ibook 1.2GHz G4.
    Ok so I can't get it legally, I'm going to root out my install discs, os there any chance classic will be on it? like X tools or whatever its called. theres a classic startup icon on mt computer, and a classic folder so I know the potential is there somehow.

    Thanks

    That should come with Classic. It's the same laptop I had and mine came with it. It's on the install discs. I installed Classic straight away so I can't recall how I went about it. But I definitely needed to use the install disc and it was fairly straightforward.

    Sad Professor wrote:
    'fraid not. I've a iBook G4 1Ghz and it didn't come with OS9. Apple stopped including it with OSX sometime after 10.2 or before.

    Mine did?


  • #6
    Sad Professor
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    It comes with Classic support, yes, but OS9 must be installed for it to work. When OSX was first released it came with OS9 install discs but Apple stopped including them after 10.2. My ibook definitely didn't come with any.

    Classic and OS9 are not the same thing. OS9 is the operating system; Classic was just an environment that allowed you to run OS9 from within OSX on PPC macs. Kinda like how Parallels works.


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  • #7
    ZENER
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    atilladehun wrote:
    I've come across this problem but have never really wanted to sort it out as much as I do now. I have a small recording studio desk . . . .

    Make / Model ?
    . . . there was no cd for software when I got the unit, but I was able to download it from the website.

    Link ?
    Anyway enough of the rambling I want to know how to have os classic 9.1 on my computer.

    Why, is the driver you downloaded only for OS 9 or is there an App that will only run under OS 9 ? What about VirtualPC from Microsoft ? It may offer enough functionality to get the music from the device. AFAIK it's free now too.
    I have osx 10.9.3. Can I just download it legally? Do I need to buy it. Do I just down load a normal copy of os9.1 or is there special versions that work within osx.

    According to Apple your G4 iBook won't boot into OS9 so you're stuck with Classic.

    I might have an OS 9.1 Install CD I can let you have if you're stuck.

    ZEN


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