How can you FORCE Classic mode to run on an Intel Mac? OS 9 emulation Rosetta Software Design

Impoossible unless Apple rewrites the code for Intel Macs to support Classic.

That will never happen.

This is never going to happen and no one else that develops for OS X and the Mac is going to make this happen.

OS 9 Classic is long dead and gone and Apple lost the license to use Rosetta as the company that originally developed Rosetta got sold to Microsoft.

Apple has moved well away from doing developement on making obsolete software and hardware run any of their new software and technologies.

Apple is 8-9 years ahead, now and is clearly moving forward and not backwards.

Sorry.

If Apple lost the license to use Rosetta like you say they did, then why do they still sell copies of Snow Leopard, which includes Rosetta?

Probably because the licensing agreement allows for that.

AustinJGibson wrote:

If Apple lost the license to use Rosetta like you say they did, then why do they still sell copies of Snow Leopard, which includes Rosetta?

Apple would never foolishly put itself in the position of licensing something as important as the technology underlying Rosetta and then allowing it to be pulled out from under its existing uses at a later date.

As noted, the licensing agreement, quite properly, would allow for existing versions of OS X (Tiger, Leopard & Snow Leopard) to continue to use Rosetta ad infinitum!

This is not unlike what happened in the 1990's when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, but in an opposite way:

Jobs was horrified by the cannabalization effect he found upon his return that the previous administration's licensing of clones was doing to sales of Macintosh hardware. He could not terminate those contracts...

But he could, update the Mac OS (to version 8) which effectively killed the clones. That was because the licenses to the clone manufacturers were only effective with the utilization of OS 7! Sure, they could continue to sell Mac clones with OS 7, but what kind of sales could they expect into the future when competing against real Apple Mac's using OS 8!

Hence, Apple is authorized to continue to sell copies of Snow Leopard, which includes Rosetta (and the replacement discs they provide with Tiger and Leopard).

NOTE: The company that licensed the underlying technology for Rosetta got sold to IBM (not Microsof), and IBM was unlikely to relicense it to Apple at a reasonable price, even if Apple was inclined to do so.

branchport wrote:

I'd love to hear any other thoughts on running Classic on Intel...

Well, if you really have the time, money and interest, the best solution would be a "classic" emulator not unlike how Virtual ][ runs Apple ][ software on a Mac!

Sheepshaver really goes a long way to achieving this. I do not know why you are unhappy with this solution; it does work for me for those times that I need it!

There is an "easier" way to acquire SheepShaver called Chubby Bunny and I have put together a post with some safe links that are relevant to this topic. I see that emaculation is one of them.

Why do you need OS 9 greater than 9.04?

Feel free to let me know if you need any more help.

With the newer Intel Macs, you have to run a Classic emulator such as SheepShaver, which requires you to extract the Mac ROMs from your older Classic Mac and then install Mac OS 9.

A related program is Chubby Bunny, which comes bundled with all of that included.

More information on SheepShaver:

http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup

and

http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/mac-os-9-classic-support-faq/run-macos-9-on- intel-macs.html

and more information about Chubby Bunny:

http://www.macwindows.com/OS9_on_Intel_Mac.html#092408b

and

http://hackthemac.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/chubby-bunny-old-virtual-machine.html

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I have no idea if those sites are safe.

I wouldn't download anything from any site I had a single doubt about.

Michael Superczynski wrote:

I have no idea if those sites are safe....

He asked "everyone" about one site and in your two previous posts you never answered that question. The OP replied: "Mlchael, thanks for the only real relevant answer to my question."

After that validation from the OP, I posted about multiple "sites" that will give the OP the information that he desires, and no one was asking you to verify my comment that all of those sites are safe.

How do I know? Because, as opposed to you actually attempting to check those "sites", I have reviewed those sites and they are informational only. There is nothing on those sites to download! Hence your "doubt" is continuing to be irrelevant to the OP.

But thank you for jumping right in again without any specific knowledge about these sites ("I have no idea if those sites are safe...") and giving negative information to the OP!

I didn't reply to your post.

Any website with homepage.mac.com is user content hosted by Apple; that link is no longer valid as homepage has been discontinued.

Safe download sites always end with apple.com.

The first link downloads, unzips and works fine when you double click: Classic App. This is exactly the same as the copy of Chubby Bunny (SheepShaver) I have been using.

The second link downloads and unzips fine, and appears to be a latest build of SheepShaver.app, which I would also desire to start to use, but I am not sure where to put this in the other download. Although I read the ReadMeFirst.txt, can you figure out how to implement the second download so as to update the first one? It's been a while since I attempted to upgrade SheepShaver and your assistance in this regard would be welcome! 🙂

I'll try to review the manual with the updated version later...

BUT, the older one (the 2012 build, the first download link) clearly works on my Lion Mac Mini when clicking Classic.app. I do not like the Launcher, so I go FILE to Quit and get back to the regular Finder and work from there:

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