Oh snap, I found this thread too late, only after I posted comments elsewhere about the project idea.
Well, since this topic will be left here for anyone to check anyway, I might as well point out that, although this project
had (before the user snapped and dropped his brain on the floor on his way out) some merit to it
in thought, it turned out ultimately
pointless since Panther's Classic, like Tiger's, is broken and crippled. From direct comparisons, it did not seem like Panther's Classic was any less bad than Tiger's. Try running Hexen on both and see for yourselves: it's equally horrible and unplayable.
Then you run it (or any other Classic-compatible app) on
10.2.8 Jaguar instead. The results?
Marvelous. Could almost (or literally?) pass off as a natively-run Mac OS 9 app.
And this guy WAS made aware of Jaguar's Classic's superiority
beforehand. So WHY in the world has he gone for Panther?! If he had actually read online around carefully, be it here, at Apple's forums, MacRumors and about everywhere else on the internet that discusses Mac matters, by far MOST complaints about Classic surround Panther/Tiger, with its transition from Jaguar. And by far MOST Tiger Classic complaints were NOT in defense of Panther Classic, but Jaguar's. Which is funny, as he made it sound like as if he had actually looked around and knew better, but clearly didn't.
And he didn't even leave behind the exact steps he took to replace the two Classic versions. Now
that could have been helpful to know and confirm. But not even that. The whole effort goes to trash, along with his attitude.
The Purist will always talk about native booting. I like your approach.
Please check the first post of http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,2947.0.html
in case it could help you for future revisions.
The purist definitely will. But so will anyone actually wanting to run their programs. So essentially everyone, purist or not.
I like the approach, as well, because it serves a purpose, but as any
reasonable person would also know, it is also not an OS 9 substitute. No direct access to the bare metal. Faulty software compatibility. And then there are the merits of OS 9 as an operating system itself, both in design and functionality.
Oh well. Let's hope we see Tiger (and Panther) running a decent version of Classic someday, for what Classic is worth.