Can You Guys Help… I wanna run OS9.2.2 on my intel iMac

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Can You Guys Help… I wanna run OS9.2.2 on my intel iMac

Hi All

Seening as we have the great BOOT CAMP partition to run MICROSOFT Systems… Why can't somebody great one for the System 9.2.2.
It's just that I'm new to programming and I have a great wicked little app that ran on OS9.2.2 but now of course I can't use it. I've tried to open it up in XCode but I get lost with it all. I know about the program that allows to run OS9 on the intel mac but I seem I can't get it work cos of the ROM file from the system it doesn't like cos it will on run on the eariler ROM from OS9.

Can aybody help me?
Cheers

iMac 17' IntelCore, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 27, 2007 5:29 AM

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Answer 1

May 2, 2007 9:51 AM in response to dwg316

Search the web for SheepShaver. It'll let you run OS9 on an Intel Mac.

Enjoy!

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Answer 2

May 8, 2007 1:55 PM in response to MonsieurBon

SheepShaver is good, but you can't run 9.2.2, I believe that it will only run up to 9.0.4, and the reason is that SheepShaver doesn't emulate the MMU of a G4 chip.

I am currently using Sheepshaver and 9.0.4 and it works pretty good, some small drawbacks are that you can't see appletalk zones so you will have to print with using IP printing.

John

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Answer 3

May 13, 2007 9:16 AM in response to dwg316

The problem is that OS 9 is designed to run on a PowerPC chip, and all of the Macs that support Boot Camp run on Intel (x86) chips. (For the same kind of reasoning, you can't just create a simple boot camp style assistant to allow you to install a Windows OS onto a PowerPC system -- it's just not the right architecture.)

What might work, if you really need to get that app running, is to use PearPC. The PearPC project works on emulating a PowerPC processor when what you're really running is an x86 processor. I can't say I've actually had anyone tell me they did this with OS 9, but there are other PowerPC operating systems it's been tested with (including OS X 10.3, which should then be able to run OS 9 apps in classic mode).

More information is available at http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

Keep in mind that when you're emulating an entire processor like this, the processing speed of the computer becomes a good bit slower. However, since you're planning to run software that was written for computers a good bit slower than the current generation of Macs, it may still run at an acceptable speed.

Alternatively, you could always look around the net to see if that particular program had any other fans who are already in the process of (or are already done) converting the app you want to use into an OS X native app.

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Answer 4

Jon Webb

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May 29, 2007 4:20 PM in response to John K Gibson

I noticed you are using sheepshaver. I just put it on my new macbook and followed the directions here http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/08/7352/
Everything was working until I restart the emulation and eject the instal disk. Sheepshaver can't find the operating system. I get the flashing question mark disk icon. Any ideas at all?
Sincerely,
Jon Webb
Butler Acres Elementary

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