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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Mac OS 9, Hacks & Upgrades => Topic started by: sepmaccas on February 04, 2020, 04:15:30 AM

Title: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: sepmaccas on February 04, 2020, 04:15:30 AM

Hi
I have some software that I need to open.
I have a Powerbook G4 with Mac OS 10.4 on it.
But I can not run the classic environment on this either.
I thought you could run the classic environment on  10.4 on a G4 PowerBook?
Kind Regards

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on February 04, 2020, 05:01:08 AM

To run the Classic enviroment you need a System folder from Mac OS 9. Download the "drag and drop" version to any place on your hard disk and go to Mac OS X settings and tell the classic control panel where is your Mac OS 9 system folder

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: sepmaccas on February 04, 2020, 05:32:00 AM

Hi
Thank you so much. But the issue is I do not have the classic control panel or i cant find it.
Am I missing something?
Kind Regards

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: sepmaccas on February 04, 2020, 05:38:56 AM

Hi
So I have managed to get as far as starting.
now I get a message saying "the system software on the startup disk only functions on the original media, not if copied to another drive"

Any ideas what we can do?

I copied it from an original OS 9 CD.

Kind REgards

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on February 04, 2020, 08:42:25 AM

You just dropped the folder from the installer. That can only be rightly done with the drag and drop AKA Mactron´s  version.

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,1859.0.html (http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,1859.0.html)

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on February 04, 2020, 08:44:46 AM

Let´s start the favourite game of GaryN. Asume-presume.

Lets asume you have your Tiger running. Maybe you just clonned an Intel-Tiger partition. In that way you will not have the Classic control Panel AFAIK.

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: IIO on February 04, 2020, 09:33:34 AM

you should not even need the controlpanel. OSX should prompt to choose a OS9 folder when you launch a classic app.

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: sepmaccas on February 04, 2020, 11:12:44 AM

Hi
No, I have Tiger but I am not using partitions it is fully installed on the Mac.
Is there any way I can get over this error about the, "not if copied issue"?

I am so almost there but I am just not having any luck.
Kind Regards
Sepand

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: sepmaccas on February 04, 2020, 11:48:32 AM

Hi
Thank you so much everyone I have Mac OS 9 installed and it is working. thank you so much.

Has anyone had any experience with CD-R Access Reader? I need to install it to read my software on the CDs but I can I keep getting error -47.
Can anyone help me at all?
Thank you so much

Title: Re: MAC OS 9 OR Running classic enviroment on 10.4
Post by: ovalking on February 05, 2020, 01:54:20 AM

I've never used it.
But I just downloaded v4. Seems to be a control panel, which I just dragged to system folder to install.
I believe Error -47 is 'file is busy'. Perhaps you have it installed already?