Neither of my tangerine Clamshells will run 8.6 and neither will run Mac OS X 1.x. I think the firmware for running both are interlinked, so if could be done, it would be of interest to me.
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iBook G3 Snow for Mac OS 9
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Time for a plot twist. So the clamshell seller hasn’t shipped since. And I impulse bought a iBook G3 plus iBook G4 lot...
The snow iBooks came. Both in good conditions. For the G3 I used the original 4 restore CDs which gave me 9.1. Not sure what to do with the system though.
First reply from the iBook G4. This forum using TFF is less smooth than I expected but it is doable.
Optimise TFF - and at the very least, click on the cogwheel when posting a message (so it turns red) to turn off the heavy JavaScript editor.
Also, reiterating your recent advice to me: optimise Mac OS X as well.
@sanfrancisofont1984 Which version of OS X are you running on the iBook G4?
Wait - didn't you specifically want a system to run OS 9? First thing I'd do is update to 9.2.2.
Also, reiterating your recent advice to me: optimise Mac OS X as well.
@sanfrancisofont1984 Which version of OS X are you running on the iBook G4?
Tiger. The machine came with Tiger but I clean installed it again. I'm curious about Panther though.
Did the upgrade to 9.2.2 after a few hours. I'm a newbie in the land of OS 9.
Then check out @z970mp's AquaTrimcelerator for tweaks and optimisations.
Between OS 9 and Tiger, you already have the best of both worlds imho.
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Is it expected that there’s a good amount of screen tearing in Mac OS 9? I know it’s inevitable if a program couldn’t draw fast enough. Still it is more common than I expected.
I noticed it recently when I played Wolfenstein 3D on my iBook G3 under OS 9 and in Classic. Other than that I don't really notice screen tearing in OS 9 that much. Then again, maybe I've just gotten used to it.
I haven't noticed screen tearing in OS 9 either but I certainly do in Classic! It's hopeless for gaming due those kinds of issues. Either I'll play the game natively in OS 9 or look for an OS X version - as I've done with many titles in my gaming thread.
The worst offender for me is probably Classilla? Have not played games much yet. I find myself wanting to use Internet Explorer. Not as a criticism for Classilla as it is hard to support old platforms with a much newer codebase.
Got the original disks for G3 snow and re-installed 9.1 + 10.0. Not great for web browsing but I could play Bugdom at least.