What is Classic Mode?

Classic is what remains of OS 9.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_(Mac_OS_X)

http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+leopard+classic

 

Classic Mode deals with Apple's pre-OS X environment and would allow users to run applications designed to run OS 8, OS 9 which may not be compatible with OS X.

 

It's in relation to hardware and software.

Intel Macs can't run Classic Mode and a PowerPC one with Leopard can't as well.

 

No, Classic mode has never been on Intel only PowerPC Macs.

 

There are alternatives for getting Classic to run on intel such as sheepshaver

 

Intel Macs are incompatible with classic. You would need to get an old PPC based Mac to run the classic environment.

Edit : Damn it beaten by 3 people . I type too slowly.

 

I wasn't actually aware of Sheepshaver myself, I might have to give it a try when I get my new Mac.

 

hello, just got OS9 working under leopard. is anyone aware of how to read/write to the disk image that has been created??

apparently it is supposed to mount on the desktop, mine isnt doing that. is the disk image in a certain format? maybe i could add that and mount in disk utility and modify it there..


anyways,

thanks

 

"Classic Mode" allows programs written for MacOS 8 and MacOS 9 to run on a machine with MacOS X installed. To use "Classic Mode", you need a computer with a PowerPC processor, not an Intel processor, and an operating system up to MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger), not Leopard.

You could of course look on eBay for an old Macintosh that actually runs MacOS 9 directly; they should go rather cheap by now.

 

are you aware of system 7 being able to run over sheep saver???