Tricky, all of this, but it would be great if someone managed it. It is OK to burn this back to CD using ImgBurn on Windows or Disk Utility on Mac. DL 1: The 9.2.2 universal OS installer CDs archive is a. Mac OS CPU Software 4.9, includes the Mac OS ROM file v9.2.1. Under Windows, software written for the classic Mac OS (i.e. Suitable for G3 & G4 Macintosh models capable of booting from a Classic Mac OS via CD-ROM. An easy way to run classic Mac OS applications under Windows. I haven't checked recently but the OS 7.5 system was given away as a free upgrade by Apple that allowed you to build the machine. This is a Bootable, Universal Install CD-ROM of Mac OS 9.2.2, US English.

Apple's own 'Classic Environment' was an emulator for Motorola on G3/4.įunnily enough I actually still have two old magazines which explain the OS 8 process (PC Express if anyone remembers it).

OS 9 didn't make it as far as G3 remember so wasn't even PowerPC. First, download a virtualization program (I’ve tried VirtualBox and VMWare, but if you’re OK with spending a bit of money you could also look into Parallels). In those days hard-disks were SCSI and Mac floppy disks unreadable by PCs or their hardware. Virtualization basically gets an operating system (like Windows) to run as an application within another operating system (in your case Mac). Take a look here: However there's is more of a hybrid emulator/VM using genuine components, getting to a full standalone OS 8 (or 9) Hackintosh maybe a step too far. There were PCI boards designed to hold these chips fairly easily available - probably still are. Yes, you can create software images of them to run in emulators but a physical machine would need real, genuine hardware ROMs. These days emulators can re-live those olden days fairly easily however building a real OS 9 Hackintosh would be hard.

Interesting idea, but I suspect Timbck2 is rightĪpple Macs prior to G3 ran on Motorola chips and their operating systems came partly built-in on ROMs, and partly on floppy disk. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

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