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• Thanks William. Great article. A problem I ran into a few weeks back so timely.
  I actually solved the problem by using DOSDude1's installer Patcher links... might be worth mentioning him actually as has been massively useful for the community in the past few years.
• This may the most useful article posted all year. Thanks for figuring this out and posting the instructions.
• The Tiger downloads are for Updates only - e.g. 10.4.6 and 10.4.11. You still need the Tiger install DVD.
• I think I ran into the installers expiration issue. I happened to be reinstalling High Sierra on my unsupported (thanks, DOSDude1!) MacBook Pro 5,5 (I needed to rearrange its Snow Leopard and High Sierra partitions, and things went kind of sideways... needed to recreate the recovery partition, etc).
  Happily, my Snow Leopard install DVD has no such expiration issues. It’s also still the fastest and most bug-free version of Mac OS X.
• When I click on the Mojave link listed in the article it does not give me a download button, only a button that says Open but clicking on it doesn't launch anything. I assume it remembers that I downloaded the expired version before. I am currently running Sierra.

• Thanks William. Great article. A problem I ran into a few weeks back so timely.
  I actually solved the problem by using DOSDude1's installer Patcher links... might be worth mentioning him actually as has been massively useful for the community in the past few years.

  I agree on both, article quality and rege Rewe nice to DOSDude - his great support blew fresh life into my 2009 MBP.
• It’s a shame there’s not a repo somewhere with every disk image from Mac OS 7! I’ve got several original retail disks but I’m missing a few. You can get os 9 disk images from macos9lives.com but OS X images are harder to hunt down.

• It’s a shame there’s not a repo somewhere with every disk image from Mac OS 7! I’ve got several original retail disks but I’m missing a few. You can get os 9 disk images from macos9lives.com but OS X images are harder to hunt down.

  I thought there were places that archived them but then there is a risk it’s been modified.
• That 10.4 and 10.5 stuff is just combo updates. You can't download installers for those old versions anymore.
• Is it possible to downgrade a new Macbook Pro 16' to Mojave?
• Does anyone know of a link for a 10.9.5 (Mavericks) installer? I tried the Purchased tab and found Mavericks, but it shows Installed and I can't download it again.
  As noted in the article, the Installers I've saved are now dead. If I go to Apple Support and search for Mavericks, all I get are links to update files and not the OS itself. I have 2029 installers for other OSs I might need, but I need one for Mavericks.
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  Is it possible to downgrade a new Macbook Pro 16' to Mojave?

  Not unless somebody comes up with some trick software to fool the MBP. As you may know, Apple doesn't allow an OS to be installed on a Mac that's older than the OS shipped with it.
  From time to time somebody has a software hack that allows a newer OS to be installed on a Mac precluded because Apple deemed it too old or unsupported.

• Does anyone know of a link for a 10.9.5 (Mavericks) installer? I tried the Purchased tab and found Mavericks, but it shows Installed and I can't download it again.
  As noted in the article, the Installers I've saved are now dead. If I go to Apple Support and search for Mavericks, all I get are links to update files and not the OS itself. I have 2029 installers for other OSs I might need, but I need one for Mavericks.

  try this: http://allmacworld.com/mac-os-x-mavericks-10-9-5-free-download/

• When I click on the Mojave link listed in the article it does not give me a download button, only a button that says Open but clicking on it doesn't launch anything. I assume it remembers that I downloaded the expired version before. I am currently running Sierra.

  I got that too. A 6.3Gb installer will already be sitting somewhere on your system (it was on one of my MacPro 5.1's currently on High Sierra)... Do a Spotlight, find and delete it... the OPEN will change to DOWNLOAD on next opening App Store.

  edited November 2019

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  Happily, my Snow Leopard install DVD has no such expiration issues. It’s also still the fastest and most bug-free version of Mac OS X.

  
  100% agree. Still have it running in a production environment in Work on an old MacMini that's still earning its crust. Loved Snow Leopard. When Apple got it right and really only did focus on bugs and cutting the fat.
• I have all these and even Leopard Server and Snow Leopard Server all running in VMWare Fusions VMs on a new 27iMac 5K i9. The only snag is most of Apple's own software requires hardware acceleration which VMs can't offer but it's fun and purely for nostalgic reasons I keep all these. To run Apple software I use Screen Sharing to older Macs, a 2010 MBP runs iWeb fine for example and I can operate it from the comfort of the iMac screen. I can also boot OSX beta (the very first one) on a G3 Performa along with OS9. Why? Haha! It's fun. I should add, I have all the original disks and packaging for every version I run.

  edited November 2019

• Does anyone know of a link for a 10.9.5 (Mavericks) installer? I tried the Purchased tab and found Mavericks, but it shows Installed and I can't download it again.
  As noted in the article, the Installers I've saved are now dead. If I go to Apple Support and search for Mavericks, all I get are links to update files and not the OS itself. I have 2029 installers for other OSs I might need, but I need one for Mavericks.

  If you are reinstalling the OS, use terminal to set the date to before Oct 24, 2019 and your old installers will work just fine. Mac OS X will update to the correct date after booting.
  date 0712122318
  
  Which would set the system date to July 12 2018 at 12:23pm
  
• Guys, I don't think these links have changed at all. When I download them fresh, MacOS still says something like 'this install file is broken', which I assume is because it thinks the certificate has expired. Guess I'll just have to do the date trick.
  
• If you ever used createinstallmedia to build a thumb drive installer, you probably found this site:
  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
  Bookmark this page, it has download links for the 5 most recent macOS versions, as well as the syntax needed to build a bootable thumb drive using the Terminal app.

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After a lot of frustration trying to run Mac OS 9 natively on my PowerBook, I decided that the most viable way to run my classic games would be through the classic environment of Mac OS X 10.4. But for everything to work satisfactorily, it would take a huge effort to research and modify the system, and in my opinion, that would only be worth my time, if it were to help the community of PPC lovers, so I did it.

To understand my choices a little better, I will list them and explain why I made them.

Mac OS X 10.4.11

When it comes to classic environment, we all know that Tiger is not the best choice, he suffers from performance problems in classic, Apple seemed to be trying to kill classic once and for all, to force developers to migrate to OS X. So, why did I choose this version? Simple! My goal is to make the most recent PPC machines run satisfactorily on Mac OS 9, many machines from the year 2005 do not support another version of the older Mac OS X.

So what good has all this effort been done to modify the system, if Tiger is not good with classic?
- Simple! Because I ported the Classic from Panther (10.3) to Tiger! With that, we have a performance of 30 to 60% better than in the original classic of the system!

In addition, I optimized the entire system so that the center of attention is our beloved Mac OS 9. This means that I removed some things from OS X that were not important, so that the system runs better and faster, BUT ... you you will still have the best of both worlds! Things that were not possible in Mac OS 9, can now be useful! How about a Mac OS 9 with native support for your AirPort card, WPA? Or support for screen brightness, fan speed control, remote control, bluetooth, java, and even our beloved TenFourFox, already configured to have the best possible performance (believe me, it is incredibly fast in this build).

You may be asking yourself now: But that sucks, an OS X Tiger with a classic, any Mac does it! - Not quite. I built this system, so that it was a secondary system in a bi-partitioned HD. It is the reincarnation of Mac OS 9, the several hours I spent on this system, it was improving the performance and compatibility with OS 9, in addition, 90% of the graphical interface is with the Platinum visual and also acts / responds like it, for you to feel at home, as if in OS 9. It is basically a Mac OS 9 running under the Mac OS X platform, which serves as a basis for mediating between legacy and unsupported 'modern' hardware. Classic may not be exactly the same as OS 9, but on an unsupported G4 or G5, it's either it or nothing.

What still needs to be done...

- I would like to customize the boot screen to insert the image at the beginning of the post, unfortunately the apps available to change the image of the boot screen do not resize the image, they just change. I plan on replacing the current boot screen with the Happy Mac image on the gray screen. Suggestions?

- I combed through all the OS X documentation and found nothing about it: As soon as the boot screen ends, the system starts the graphical interface (a blue background) then a window written Starting Mac OS X ... appears. I would like to change the BLUE COLOR in the background, but I haven't found anything about it.

I placed a trash can on the work area provisionally. It is not the best choice, it does not work as well as I expected. I tried the tip to create a shortcut to ./Trash, but the problem is that it will only work for the drive where the trash is, and the icon does not change to empty trash / Trash full.

- Unfortunately Dock is necessary for the desktop to work. I'm still looking for a solution to hide it forever.

- My initial idea was to modify classic.app so that it would run in full screen. There is even a tip out there about changing something in the Mac OS 9 Finder, so that the OS 9 Finder can be seen, but still, somehow, classic does not allow you to see the desktop, and this was the great flaw that made me change my mind, so I decided to modify the entire OS X. I tried to run MacOS.app from Mac OS X DP2 and 3, because it allows you to run classic in full screen, but unfortunately it doesn't work outside the original system. Searching the classic Panther code, I found entries for a button called Show Mac OS 9 desktop, but it seems to have been disabled during compilation.

- A strange bug happens when I try to run Doom 1 from 1996 on any version of classic: The game runs by skipping frames, but in a certain region of the screen, the game runs perfectly at a high frame rate (as it should be). I will only be able to play it if I change the screen resolution to as low as 800x600.

Despite all the hard work, the system is not yet ready, I will continue the development after voluntary testers report tips, opinions, problems, etc...

Mirrors:

How to use:

Dual boot:

First of all you need to partition your HD (if you want to keep your current system + ClassiX), I will not go into details on how to do this so as not to create a giant topic. Then use the disk drive to write the dmg to the new partition. When the process is over, you can select the system by system preferences / startup disk, or hold the Option key on the keyboard when starting your Mac.

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ClassiX only:

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Copy classix.dmg to a pendrive, start your Mac with the Mac OS X 10.4 CD, select disk drive, open the dmg on the pendrive, and restore to your hard drive.

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Note: The first boot can take a little time. Within the system, a defragmenter is included, it is recommended that you repair the permissions, and defragment the system before you start using it.

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To be tested...