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Mac OS 9 on OSX Leopard?

makela, on Thursday 10 July 2008 à 07:48:55
Hello,
Okay so OS X Leopard is the OS 9 killer.
Does anyone know of a work-around to install OS 9. I have the latest iMac with Leopard pre-installed. I tried partitioning the hard drive and then uploading OS 9, didn't work. I guess it would have to be something that overrides the firmware, if that's possible.

In case you are asking why, it's because I have a scanner and a printer which are not made/imported any more, they work perfectly but no OS X Leopard drivers are available, or ever will be.

Thanks.
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 Mac tech, on Wednesday 3 September 2008 à 05:25:06
This is a bit complex, but the short answer is, no. The intel based iMacs can't natively run OS9 because it was written for the IBM powerpc processors. It was working in 10.4(tiger) because Tiger had emulation software to run it. Apple took the emulation software out of it for Leopard. There are commercial applications to allow you to run classic in leopard, but you cannot boot to it, and the drivers will not load anyway. Hope this helps.

P.S. apple no longer uses an open firmware interface, instead they now use Intel's EFI interface. A mac nowadays is just a really pretty PC, so you'd have about the same chance of success installing OS9 on your winblows machine.
   
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