Downloads

Looking for Mac OS 9 installers? Choose your system:

OS 9 for real hardware · OS 9 for emulators

Universal Install

This image utilizes the Apple ASR System and will boot your Mac (when finished) to the Official Last OS 9.2.2 File structure Released by Apple
» System: Any Mac that officially supports Mac OS 9.2.2

Mac Mini G4

Contains install media with modified ROM & extensions to support the Mac Mini. No crazy commands to type, just boot and install.
» System: All revisions of the Mac Mini G4

Unsupported G4's

Contains install media with modified ROM & extensions to support previously unsupported machines. Just boot and install.
» System: For the previously unsupported PowerMac G4 FW800 and Aluminium PowerBook G4

Universal Drag & Drop Install

This install media is not bootable. Extract and copy the files to a HFS+ volume to install.
» System: Any Mac that officially supports Mac OS 9.2.2

"General" Image (DMG Format)

The original Mac OS 9.2.2 install media for the FW400 MDD, but it works great with all machines that support 9.2.2 out of the box.
» System: Any Mac that officially supports Mac OS 9.2.2

Universal (By member Blackholemac)

Modified Mac OS 9.2.2 Install that contains extra utilities and updated versions of some applications.
» System: Any Mac that officially supports Mac OS 9.2.2

PowerBook G4 Titanium 1Ghz

Original Mac OS 9.2.2 software restore for Apple PowerBook Titanium 1Ghz.
» System: PowerBook G4 Titanium 1Ghz


We at Mac OS 9 Lives run our own Hotline file server to make software for Mac OS 9 available for our members and guests to download.

The main software categories are audio, video, graphics and software development, as they are the four main fields in which people still use Mac OS 9.

Sounds great, but where are the files?

We are using Hotline Connect to provide the content for you to download. This is also how you upload software and files if you wish to make a contribution to our archive, or just chat with our admins and members about the future of the site, the platform, the weather, the Hotline server and everything in between.

If you have no idea what Hotline is or how cool it is, Nathan Powers made an excellent video about Hotline. We highly recommend watching it either as a Quicktime movie on Cornica.org or on modern hardware through YouTube.

I'm old-style! I don't like watching videos

Fine with us! Hotline is a client-server based system that allows logged in users to live-chat with other members and download files from the server. It's written for Mac OS from the ground up - for example, Hotline saves the resource forks of uploaded files. There is no need for StuffIt archives!

How do I join?

You need a Hotline client to be able to connct to our Hotline server. Grab a client from the list below and connect to hotline.macos9lives.com.

Client suggestions (for everyone!):

See you there!