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Probably not, OS9 is just for PPC architecture. You could have it but only with a emulator.
If i'm not wrong even the G5 and later G4's could not run OS9.
I had a dual 450mhz G4 that i upgraded to a dual 1.8Ghz and i think i couldn't install OS9 with the upgrade even if i wanted; a thing that i didn't want to do.
If i'm not wrong even the G5 and later G4's could not run OS9.
I had a dual 450mhz G4 that i upgraded to a dual 1.8Ghz and i think i couldn't install OS9 with the upgrade even if i wanted; a thing that i didn't want to do.
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The G5 had an OS9 emulation mode it went away in Leopard!
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Rosetta was PPC application compatibility or emulation, not OS9.
From Wikipedia
"Rosetta does not support the following:[SUP][6][/SUP]
From the research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheepShaver, a OS9 emulator, up to 9.0.4
From Wikipedia
"Rosetta does not support the following:[SUP][6][/SUP]
- The Classic environment, and thus any non-Carbon application built for Mac OS 9 or earlier"
From the research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheepShaver, a OS9 emulator, up to 9.0.4
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Interesting idea, but I suspect Timbck2 is right
Apple Macs prior to G3 ran on Motorola chips and their operating systems came partly built-in on ROMs, and partly on floppy disk.
These days emulators can re-live those olden days fairly easily however building a real OS 9 Hackintosh would be hard.
Part of the problem being those ROMs. Yes, you can create software images of them to run in emulators but a physical machine would need real, genuine hardware ROMs.
There were PCI boards designed to hold these chips fairly easily available - probably still are. Take a look here: www.emulators.com/softmac.htm
However there's is more of a hybrid emulator/VM using genuine components, getting to a full standalone OS 8 (or 9) Hackintosh maybe a step too far. In those days hard-disks were SCSI and Mac floppy disks unreadable by PCs or their hardware. OS 9 didn't make it as far as G3 remember so wasn't even PowerPC. Apple's own "Classic Environment" was an emulator for Motorola on G3/4.
Funnily enough I actually still have two old magazines which explain the OS 8 process (PC Express if anyone remembers it).
I haven't checked recently but the OS 7.5 system was given away as a free upgrade by Apple that allowed you to build the machine. You'd need a genuine OS 9 media set.
Tricky, all of this, but it would be great if someone managed it.
Might just be so much easier to BUY an old Macintosh or iBook G3/G4 and get the whole lot in one nice, easy and relatively cheap bundle!
Apple Macs prior to G3 ran on Motorola chips and their operating systems came partly built-in on ROMs, and partly on floppy disk.
These days emulators can re-live those olden days fairly easily however building a real OS 9 Hackintosh would be hard.
Part of the problem being those ROMs. Yes, you can create software images of them to run in emulators but a physical machine would need real, genuine hardware ROMs.
There were PCI boards designed to hold these chips fairly easily available - probably still are. Take a look here: www.emulators.com/softmac.htm
However there's is more of a hybrid emulator/VM using genuine components, getting to a full standalone OS 8 (or 9) Hackintosh maybe a step too far. In those days hard-disks were SCSI and Mac floppy disks unreadable by PCs or their hardware. OS 9 didn't make it as far as G3 remember so wasn't even PowerPC. Apple's own "Classic Environment" was an emulator for Motorola on G3/4.
Funnily enough I actually still have two old magazines which explain the OS 8 process (PC Express if anyone remembers it).
I haven't checked recently but the OS 7.5 system was given away as a free upgrade by Apple that allowed you to build the machine. You'd need a genuine OS 9 media set.
Tricky, all of this, but it would be great if someone managed it.
Might just be so much easier to BUY an old Macintosh or iBook G3/G4 and get the whole lot in one nice, easy and relatively cheap bundle!
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Just a bunch of geeky details, Mac OS9 made it well into G4's, i remember that even 800mhz G4s came with OS9, as i explained earlier, but you can check the compatibility table here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9
Only late G4 machines and late processor upgrades like the ones from Sonnet, Powerlogic and Gigadesigns couldn't run OS9.
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Really? Thanks for the insult...
I didn't check on Wikipedia because I owned both G3 and G4 iBooks. Both switched to Classic Environment from within OS X OR could boot to OS 9 so, you are right OS 9 could run natively on G3 and G4.
Hope you feel good about my error.
I thought the discussion was about building an OS 9 Hackintosh? What I've said was meant to be relevant and trying to figure a way forward for the original poster.
I'll leave it to you big-hitters in future to sort things out. I'm sure you don't need any help...
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Sorry if you take it as an insult or in a agressive tone, i'm not from a english speaking country and i didn't want it to be interpreted like that.
I was just saying that what i was going to write was a bunch of details without real importance, just details that don't change much what was said before.
Sorry
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Sorry if you take it as an insult or in a agressive tone, i'm not from a english speaking country and i didn't want it to be interpreted like that.
I was just saying that what i was going to write was a bunch of details without real importance, just details that don't change much what was said before.
Sorry
No problem...
I didn't realise English wasn't your first language
My turn to apologise for mis-interpreting your words
The more I think about this - and now I have read the Wikipedia article - I think OS 9.0.3 was the last version to run only on Motorola (?) It seems 9.0.4 had the new G3 capability built in. Quite a big update I guess. My own iBook must have come with OS 9.1 looking at the dates.
Given the limitations it would seem to be a very difficult hackintosh project to create an OS 9 machine. Probably easier just to pick up an old Mac from Ebay...
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