Hello! I'm new here, and I joined because I'd rather not run OS X on my iMac G3 Grape. I was wandering around the internet looking for homebrew updates that I figured would have come out.
One of the biggest projects I've seen (and the one I was personally most interested in) was the pinned 9.3 thread. I'd love to see something like this come to fruition one day, but it doesn't look like the thread has seen a post in a long time now.
Rather than bump a very old thread, I figured I'd just make a new one and ask what happened.
I'd love to provide any help I can if the project is still going, I'm more of a Windows programmer myself, but I'm getting into OS9 lately. I've got my aforementioned iMac G3 Grape with 9.2.2 and two PowerMac G4s lying around, one with 9.0.4 and the other with 10.4.11. If G5 support ever comes as mentioned in the thread, I have a dual G5 machine with 10.4.11 that's sitting around doing nothing. I plan on getting a PowerBook G3 of some kind soon because I'd like to be portable and avoid emulators.
I think new, community driven updates to an aging OS are a great way to keep users and onlookers interested and can help provide a better experience for everybody! Think Whited00r and Grayd00r (iOS 3, 5 patches to update them).
All that being said, I also wanted to point out some things I feel would really improve the quality of life of OS 9 in the modern world:
-Fix the clock for 2040
-Maybe 2GB patch? Seems like one heck of a rabbit hole but could prove useful
-H264 for QuickTime
-Classilla rendering updates, maybe HTML5?
-USB 2.0
-Support for wireless outside of AirPort
and personally removing the last of the 68k from the system would probably be a great help as well.
Again, I'd love to be a part of this project if it's still going on! I've got no clue where I would even start writing an update like this, but once I gain some momentum in a project I have trouble stopping.