Your last resort would be to try using SheepShaver (which, in my opinion, is really shitty on the Mac, it always froze on my MacBook, but that was a long time ago, it may be better now), a free emulator for OS 9. The eMac G4 did support classic, but only up to the eMac/800 model.
I haven't used Classic in a long time, but I believe there is a window which lets you use the old Finder. Macintosh OS 8.6 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 and Outlook Express 4.5: Macintosh OS 9.2 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook Express 5: Macintosh OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 and Apple Mail: Macintosh OS X 10. So my question is if i take a pre-installed os9 HD image can i install it to the emac with some sort of image recovery tool? and will it still boot? also im pretty unfamiliar with classic mode, i understand that it allows me to run classic software on osx, however id like to use the desktop and finder from classic (even in a seperate window) is there anyway to do that without a 3rd party emulator (sheepshaver)? Archlyric wrote:Ive been doing alot of research on installing macos 9 onto my emac (1,4ghz ppc 768mb ram), and ive came to a conclusion that it will not boot the install disc, and theres no 'install os9 drivers' option on my tiger cd.
