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OS 9 showing OS 8 desktop folder
I've installed OS X 10.4 Tiger, OS 8.6 and OS 9.2 on three different partitions on a G3 iMac. All clean installs from CD. If I place an alias on the desktop while in OS 8, it shows when I boot into OS ...
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I have an iBook G3 running Mac OS 9.2. I moved Finder and now it won't boot. How can I fix this?
I'm unfamiliar with classic Mac OS, and I wanted to make Finder easier to reach, so I moved it to the desktop. I didn't realize that this would make Finder inaccessible to the system! Since then, my ...
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Can this 800 MHz iMac G4 boot into Mac OS 9?
I'm trying to find a legacy Mac that I can use to boot into Mac OS 9. I've found an old iMac G4 in the classified ads, but it has Mac OS X currently installed and I'm not sure if it's compatible with ...
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How can I reinstall Mac OS 9 on a G3 PowerBook's original hard drive?
I have a PowerBook G3 from 2000 or so and would like to put Mac OS 9 on it for nostalgia reasons. There are games that simply don't perform well with SheepShaver, plus networking with SheepShaver isn'...
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Identifying what PowerMac I have
I'm having issues identifying what type of PowerMac G4 Quicksilver I have.
Looking at the stickers on the machine, I initially come to the conclusion that the machine is a Power Macintosh G4 800 DP (...
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Is there a Mac equivalent of DOSBox?
I was trying to run some old software on my Air today and I got these messages:
You can't open the application because the classic environment is no longer supported.
You can't open the ...
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Does anybody know of a repository or resource that has all of the correct filenames for Tetris on PowerPC for macintosh System 7?
Someone at my school brought in a functioning Macintosh Classic running System 7 today that he bought off of Ebay. We were looking around on the applications that were already loaded on it and didn't ...
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Is it possible to virtualize PowerPC... FOR a PowerPC? (absolutely not Intel-related)
As my question states,
Is it possible to virtualize PowerPC... FOR a PowerPC?
Consider that you're using Linux for PPC. You want to run apps written specifically for Mac OS 7.x through 9.2.2, all ...
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What is the most powerful Mac capable of running Mac OS 9?
I know that there was a period of time after Mac OS X came out that new Macs still shipped with Mac OS 9 for a number of reasons (OS X was buggy, better compatibility with Classic apps, etc). This is ...
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How can I edit the original Myst app so that it no longer requires the CD to play?
I just discovered SheepShaver and I'm mindblowingly excited!
I got all my old Mac games out of storage and began to install all of them.
A trick that I learned awhile ago for making playing games on ...
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