Prior to buying a new Mac, I've been asking my Apple store a lot of questions. They say the newer Macs do have Classic. So, I asked, can I use my old disks to install OS 9.2.2? No, they said. Can I have it on my external drive? You can put what you like on your external drive, but the G5 will not boot from it.

So, whatever G5s have, it's definitely not the same as the older OS 9. Maybe it's a cut-down version, but the shop told me that some apps and games will definitely not run, and nor will my scanner.

My current addiction is The Sims - the old version with the millions of downloads available - and I have one disk that is OS 9. Aspyr, who produce the game, say that although I might be able to install by dragging from my external drive, there is still a chance it won't run on a G5 and off to swop the disk for $US5, which I reckon is pretty good. As you know, 3d0 no longer exists and even when it did, was totally unfriendly to Mac - I remember writing to them (I think about the proposed HOMM5) and was told they considered Mac totally unimportant and that, living in Australia, I should consider myself lucky that I had a copy of the game at all!

Allan Marcus wrote:

Nothing will run under classic without O9S being installed. "Classic"
is just OS running running in a sort of virtual machine.


On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:

> David Misner wrote:
>
>
>   it seems there
>  are a number of programs that will not run under Classic without OS 9
>  being installed, and you can't have OS 9 on new Macs. Actually, they
>  probably would run, but of course you can't install the program in the
>  first place. Re. another game, Aspyr has told me it might be possible
> to
>  drag games I already have installed from my external hard drive.

-- Rob Bannister