Mac Paint and Macdraw (original and downloads) don't work on OS9

[laserspot1]

Got both Mac-Paint and Draw on original floppies and both don't seem to work. It says needs to be formated on both os 9 mac and win xp.

I tried to copy a macpaint 1.5 rom off the net onto a cd to run the os 9 and it didn't appear even though it read pictures and pdfs on the same kind of cd.

What should i do?

 

[David Schmidt]

You should get a machine that is capable of running that software. Only a very old Mac (i.e. a Mac Classic running MacOS 6.0.x or so) will do that for you.

 

[WardC]

Yes, a System 7 machine even cannot run MacPaint and MacDraw. They will run on System 6, and run well, but not on System 7 or later. I believe it has to do with the 32-bit addressing, but I may be mistaken.