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os9

  1. juanstdio

    "Satisfaction" by Benny Benassi

    Hello forum! Yesterday I saw a video where someone was saying that Benny Benassi used "text to speech" function in OS9 to create the voices in some classic house Songs.so I fired up my G4 and with Classic environment I was able to confirm it !! (crude without edition) Enjoy!
  2. flatjuba

    Install OS9 on 2nd Partition after Sorbet

    I want to ask sort f a basic question, Can I create a partition (on my Sorbet Leopard running MDD G4), and restore image of OS9 (either with CCC or Disk Utility) to that new partition? Will it boot fine if I press option while restarting?
  3. adingley

    Found a handy VNC server for os9 (apparently works in os8 as well)

    Just sharing, as I thought this was super-handy. os9VNC works really well so that I can run an old os9 powerPC Mac in another room and VNC control it from my modern Intel (and Apple Silicon) Macs via the native VNC "Screen Sharing" client software on those newer machines. A quick google search...
  4. T

    Triple Boot OSX/OS9/Linux

    I am looking to triple boot my Titanium G4 with OSX, OS9 and Linux... I have a few questions. 1. Should I partition the drive into 3 separate partitions. Or should there be only 2 (1 for OSX/OS9 side by side and 1 for Linux) 2. I have ISO files of all the OS I want to use I assume I can still...
  5. H

    Max drive size on G3 iBook with mSata adapter

    I am in the process of refurbishing a 900MHz G3 iBook. Unfortunately (and expectedly) the hard drive is dead. My main use for the machine will be making lossless CD rips, so I'd ideally like to add a large 512GB drive using an IDE -> mSATA adapter. Due to the lack of ALAC/FLAC support under OS9...
  6. N

    Io9 install

    Hello friends, I was wondering if i can install os9 on MacBook, yes new one like parallel. Actually I have some files from os9 which I want to read some data and I don't have anything to read it. if someone has some pointer, please share with me. Thanks
  7. Mohamed Said

    Finally, I finished work on code of the first version of my internet suite

    Finally, I finished work on code of the first version of my internet suite (Millennium 0.1a). What's new? 1- Show tabs bar, when one tab opened or more. (as default) 2- Navigator save visited pages, up to 30 days. (as default) source code...
  8. T

    Which browser for an iMac G3 on OS9?

    Hi, I have an old (2000 ish) iMac G3 which my good lady used to use on a dialup basis. I fired it up, the machine runs fine. I plugged in an Ethernet cable, my router sees the iMac and gives it an IP address from its DHCP pool I can ping the iMac from other devices on my home network, so far...
  9. sayhellotomacintosh

    Dual boot iMac G3

    I have an iMac G3 (it’s the original Bondi Blue, confirmed with serial number) that is currently running Mac OS 9.0.4. It has a 4 GB hard drive. .25 GB (around 250 MB) is currently filled, leaving 3.75 GB free. I would like to partition the drive as to run Mac OS X 10.1 Puma on one partition...
  10. bobesch

    Resolved "BassJumped" PowerBook and Clamshell (os9)

    The BassJump-subwoofer is one of my favorite and most used gadgets for all kind of intel-MacBooks. It's driver-software basicly combines internal speakers with the USB-subwoofer. Sitting in front of a MacBookPro gives you a nice stereo-audio experience with that combination of internal speakers...
  11. bobesch

    FileSharing/ScreenSharing between os9 and intel-Macs

    Basically the idea to start this thread came from here ... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/os9-late-osx-no-file-sharing-via-afp.2167422/ PS: Many thanks to all fellow MR-PPC-Forum members - without their genius help and advice things wouldn't have got so far by now --- I'd like to use...
  12. E

    UNBOOTABLE G3 Desktop Beige

    Hello everyone, Picked up today for 10$ a "Apple Power Macintosh G3 300 Desktop". The Guy told me it had some kind of dual boot and had OS X and OS 9 and that it was running everything well so far. The machine has the following specs: 300mhz cpu 2x64MB and 1x 128MB RAM=256MB ATI Rage 128 with...
  13. bobesch

    os9/late-OSX - no file-sharing via AFP !?

    Inspired by the dicussion about the end of the Dropbox-Client for PPC I tried to establish file-sharing not only for my Tiger/Leopard-PPCs but also for os9. Connectivity with Tiger/Leopard(PPC) and late OSX (ElCap) works fine and is easy to establish. But it took me a while to find out, how...
  14. bobesch

    Resolved iMac G3 with SATA-IDE-adapter doesn't boot into Mac OS9

    Hi there. Need some help about MacOS9. I've installed a 120GB SSD with SATA2IDE adapter into one of my 400MHz iMacG3 DV. Via TargetDiskMode (from a G4/Tiger-PPC) I've created 3 partitions: 1) 10GB (for os9) 2) 40GB (for Tiger), 3) Rest (for data). Drivers for OS9 included during partitioning the...
  15. bobesch

    Streaming internet-radio on PPC (os9/OS X)

    Last night I discovered, that all my internet-radio streaming links were broken and didn't work with iTunes 10 on my 12" PowerBook anymore. Searching for another web-radio streaming app I was lucky to find "FStream". You will find the latest version to work with PPC/Leopard&Tiger via Wayback...
  16. E

    Old School - PowerBook G4 question

    Hi everyone. Was wondering if someone might be able to help me with this. Here's my dilemma. I have a TiBook G4,15", 1GHz, 1 MB L3 cache, 1GB SDRAM. It boots in OS 10.4 and I've kept it around because it also runs OS9 in Classic mode so I can use a ton of docs created in PageMaker 6.5. Last...
  17. T

    G4 wont Boot

    Hi everybody, I've got a powermac g4 which has installed OS9. 2(.2?) and OS X on the Same Volume. Unfortunetely, osx wont Boot and just shows up UniNEnet putToSleep - disabled Cell clock in the Unix shell. Also, booting from a OSX cd does not work for some reason. Can someone tell me how to...
  18. AmazingHenry

    This Forum on Classilla

    I saw in another thread that this forum could be used with Classilla. Tried on my Clamshell (with Panther) and got an error about the encryption. I'm going directly to forums.macrumors.com as @bunnspecial said in that other thread. Any ideas? Thanks, Henry