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If you're planning on running the treasures of the past you'll find here on real old Macintosh hardware from the 90's, you sir/madame, deserve to win an Internet! For others, there's SheepShaver, a PowerPC emulator capable of running Mac OS 9.0.4 down to Mac OS 7.5.2 and there's Basilisk II, a 68k emulator, capable of running Mac OS (8.1 to 7.0). .smi files Disk utility won't open in Mac OS X 10.9, but it will convert to.dmg files. If you copy the contents to a USB Flash drive of the same name as the dmg file (without the suffix), it can hold the installer in question and connect older Mac OS 9 machines to run the installer from.
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- Sep 24, 2018 As of the posting of this tip, the Mac OS 9 downloads on Apple's support site are not fully available. This tip of a method of obtaining the downloads was suggested by sdfox7.Special thanks to them for decoding.
- The popular system software for the resurgent Macintosh platform is Mac OS 9, which includes over 50 new features. Among them are a searching program that finds not just files, but even web pages and words inside files; a multiple-users feature that stores a separate desktop for each user; and one.
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Installing the Mac OS
Step 1:
Start Up From the Mac OS CD
Before you begin, turn off any security or virus-protection software you have installed on your
computer.
computer.
If you have a PowerBook, plug it in and use the Energy Saver control panel to set it so it
doesn’t go to sleep.
doesn’t go to sleep.
Next, start up your computer using the Mac OS CD.
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Insert the CD in your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
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First hold CTRL and press “ G” to bring up the “ Go To” box. Clear Objects (Shapes)You have to be very careful with this solution if you wish to keep objects. Manual calculation excel 2013 mac.
Shut down your computer.
3
Turn on your computer while holding down the C key on your keyboard.
Continue holding down the C key until you see the smiling face.
You’ll know you’ve started up from the CD when your computer’s desktop pattern changes to
a light-colored background that says “CD.”
a light-colored background that says “CD.”
Need help starting up from the CD?
If your computer won’t start up from the CD, or if it doesn’t have a CD-ROM drive, see
“Troubleshooting Information” on page 9.
“Troubleshooting Information” on page 9.
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As of the posting of this tip, the Mac OS 9 downloads on Apple's support site are not fully available.
This tip of a method of obtaining the downloads was suggested by sdfox7. Special thanks to them for decoding
how to discover old downloads.
Locate the support.apple.com website for the download. In the case of most of the system downloads for Mac OS 9, there is this link:
and
In event the link doesn't work, go to http://web.archive.org/ to find it. For this link, the example site is:
If you are looking for the 9.2.2 download, the direct link from that page is
![Install Install](/uploads/1/2/4/7/124756354/835819141.png)
Clicking through
First on the page you will find North American English, 9.2.2, 21.3MB.
When you right click, or control-mouse button the download link and select copy link, you obtain:
Edit this link to reveal just the file name and not the path going to it and paste it in your favorite search engine. In this case, the file name is:
Mac_OS_9.2.2_Update.smi.bin
Searching you'll find that this link has that download.
Mac Os 9 2
As it happens, the website:
has the download links for all the Mac OS 9 updates and others.
Mac Os 9 Torrent
You can use a similar method for many other downloads of older software.
As I also found out, .bin files even Mac OS X 10.9 understands. .smi files Disk utility won't open in Mac OS X 10.9, but it will convert to .dmg files.
If you copy the contents to a USB Flash drive of the same name as the dmg file (without the suffix), it can hold the installer in question and connect older Mac OS 9 machines to run the installer from. Just make sure the USB drive is formatted HFS+ no journaling, or FAT16 and under 4GB in size.
The other thing to note, is that no Mac running Mac OS X 10.3 or higher supports the old style floppy disks of under 1.4 MB. The beige PowerMacs were the last that supported the 800k floppies with the single notch on the the corner. If you have floppies with two notches on either corner of the label, then they are 1.4 MB.
1.4 MB floppy looks like:
400k and 800k floppy look like:
Note how the 800k only has one notch for the write protect tab, and no other opening on the other corner.
The thread I learned about this method isLinks for Mac OS 9 Downloads are faulty!
Other older knowledgebase links can be found by this tip's methods:
Some of the articles linked to for these updates may refer to the old knowledgebase format which may yield links you can convert with archive.org,
as described below:
Note: the ii.net mirror that used to be linked to no longer exists.