Members Introduction... time to reflect on our past that got us here :)

[Greystash]

Found this community from watching Youtube channels that were repairing old mac computers.
But after the Steam store started doing more retro releases and charging higher prices for older games, thought why not just buy the classic hardware and have a better experience!


Thought it would be fun to buy one and put together a retro mac gaming machine.
Happy to join the community hear and learn more about retro software on OS9

Welcome!

That sounds like a lot of fun!

The older Macs always surprise me with gaming. I recently managed to get the Sims 1 running (quite well) on an upgraded PowerBook 1400. My favourites are the powerhouse Mirror Drive Door/Quicksilvers which run everything (all the older classic games up to "modern" ones like Battlefield 1942, and even virtual PC for stuff like SimCopter etc.)

[Astrin]

Well, before I post something else that gets me in trouble, let me introduce myself. I am so old that John F. Kennedy was alive when we came to America in 1960. There, top that. Seriously, it's not a challenge 

So basically I don't belong here. My age group is playing bocce balls in Florida, not wrestling with a G4 mini making it run OS 9. That's another reason I don't belong here. The mini was one of the hardware units capable of running Morphos, one of the competing last gasps at a 'future os' for the Amiga. I was impressed at how well the mini did with Morphos so I read up on Mac OS X, saw an iso on archive dot org and lo and behold Tiger! Which led to trying some s/w on archive, then I discovered other sites like Macintosh Garden, and I was hooked. 

You see, even on the Amiga, it wasn't games that interested me, but 3D animation and graphics. And the Garden....hoooeee I was a kid in a candy shop. Strata 3D, Infini-D, EIAS, and on and on. A lot of the s/w I actually own, but on the PC side. Nowadays, I own a 2019 M1 Macbook with the s/w I wished for for decades to appear on the pc, and I now own and run on the Macbook, which is the U&I stuff from Eric Wenger and company, stuff like Voyager and MetaSynth.

But the retro mac graphics stuff often said 'OS 9' or 8 or 7 even. And that need to run OS 9--because let's face it, 'Classic' mode is like handing your ice cream cone to someone else and asking him how it tastes--that need led to the rabbit hole of using a mac os version on 'unsupported hardware' which led me to you guys. And now the mac mini G4 dual boots OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.4 thanks to your extraordinary efforts. And my Power Mac G4 DP 1.25 800 FW also will be dual booting OS 9.2.2 and some version of Tiger, which I read that 10.4.8 is the version to get, but I'm still trying to determine that.

And oh, did I mention the newly acquired G3 233 beige desktop? It appears to be running OS 8 but I had to scrounge on the interzones just to find an adapter to see the video output, and I believe the mailman just delivered the ADB mouse and keyboard, so we'll see. Ah, nostalgia, the boomer drug. So you see, I don't belong here. I belong in an institution.

Thanks guys! 

[stevep]

Hello!

I dusted off my old G4 867mhz quicksilver that I purchased back when I was in college and then quickly discovered that OS9.2.2 definitely isn't what it used to be, so I dug around and found this community.

I work in post production and have been on macs for 20+ years. my first mac was a pismo powerbook and currently work on the m2 max systems. I have been there every step of the way and it's been interesting to see things come and go, but my favorite OS of all time is still 9.2 and I was super happy to discover my system still works after 20 years in a closet. (unlike the pismo which literally exploded the last time I turned it on)

So now I am looking forward to learning more about it and maybe kitting it out to be the machine I always wished it was back in 2003. If only I had kept the mountains of old mac hardware the places I worked for had me toss when I was starting out instead of e-wasting it, so now I have to track down things I recycled back in the day. So it goes.

thanks!

[GHo0ST]

Hi everyone,

My first job as a programmer was working on a piece of s... oftware that was used by printing companies (newspaper printing mostly) to correctly lay out their pages. It ran on Windows, Unix, and naturally, Macs. My job was to fix bugs and implement changes on all 3 systems. I left after just over a year, but while I was there I did look forward to having to work on the OS9 version, despite the unfamiliar system and oh look I managed to get another beach ball of doom!

As I type this I have just managed to get hold of a Mac G4 with Apple Studio Display, keyboard and mouse for 50 of my English squids! Bargain! Also, I have completed installing OS9.2.2 from the image I found here - thank you for that. Next up will be CodeWarrior, some sort of email client, and an Office-equivalent. And an RSS feed reader, if there is one...

It's been a really long time since I looked at any code on a Mac, but Christmas is coming, I have annual leave and I'm not afraid to use it! 

[ssp3]

My first job as a programmer was working on a piece of s... oftware that was used by printing companies
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But, of course! Only programmer could have chosen the forum name like yours.  Welcome!

It's been a really long time since I looked at any code on a Mac, but Christmas is coming, I have annual leave and I'm not afraid to use it! 

We can use that kind of skill here 

[IIO]

if that was an application... welcome to the team.

letīs build a better past!

[keithiepoo]

So you see, I don't belong here. I belong in an institution.

Then you're in good company.