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The Classic environment allowed Macintosh software from the pre Mac OS X era to run on Macs using Mac OS X. Classic is not available on Macs with Intel processors or running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
To run Classic you need an older PPC Mac (G5 or G4) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) with Mac OS 9 installed. Double clicking an old application will launch the Classic environment and run the software.
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∙ 10y agoYou have to own/buy a retail version of Mac-OS 9.2 and have a computer that came brand new with 10.5 or earlier. 10.6 has "Rosetta" that emulates 9.2 that took the place of the Classic environment. 10.7 does not support Rosetta so 9.2 will not work any more.
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Will a classic Mac OS game work on a Mac OS X computer?
Classic Mac OS games can be used in Mac OS X if the Mac is a PowerPC Mac, the game was written for PowerPC processors, and the version of Mac OS X is Tiger or older. They cannot be used on Intel Macs except via the use of a third-party emulator, such as SheepShaver.
Does Mac OS run on mac's?
Umm... Yes. But I'm talking about Mac OS X. If you want to run Mac OS Classic, well, sorry. You need another piece of software to emulate the environment, but if you have Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4, you can run Classic Mode on it, but you would need a Mac OS Classic Installation CD __Mac OS__ is basically like Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, etc, is to "Windows" today, it just refers to ANY Macintosh operating system in general. They have just made the phrase _MAC OS_ easier to distinguish between software that works on a Windows machine or a Mac and to show the software is made for the Mac only. Usually in the description it will give the actual parameters of how old the software will work, PowerPC or Intel Macs or OS 9, 10.2, 10.3, etc. OS-X refers to OS-10.1.x all the way to 10.6.6 as of today. OS-9 will only "boot" on older PowerPC machine's and "Classic" is an emulator in OS-X and will run "Most" of the OS-9 software on the "newer" Mac OS-X (10.1 to 10-4) "Classic" ended at OS-10.5.
Can Microsoft ActiveX controls run on Mac OS X?
No, Microsoft ActiveX controls cannot run on Mac OS X.
Is it possible to run Mac OS X on a server?
It is possible to run Mac OS X on a server but it is not legally as the current license tern of Mac OS X server is installing and running on Apple hardware.
Can you run your Shanghai Second Dynasty game on a mac OS x 10.5 leopard without classic?
No, you cannot. Apple is no longer supporting classic mode.
Can you have mac os x on Windows 7?
No , you cannot run OS X on a windows machine. Buy a mac
What is a Mac OS X PPC?
Mac OS X PPC is a version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system that runs on Power PC (PPC) architecture. This is opposed to Mac OS X for X86 which runs on Intel-based Macs. Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.5 can run on PowerPC based macs whereas Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will only run on Intel-based Macs.
How do you downgrade from Mac OS X to Mac OS 9?
You cannot without erasing your hard drive and installing Mac OS 9 from scratch. Even then Mac OS 9 may not run on modern Mac hardware because Mac OS 9 needs the ROM chip to boot. Modern Mac OS X hardware uses EFI to boot the system instead of a ROM chip to boot. Mac OS X v10.0 - Mac OS X v10.4 support Mac OS 9 applications and can run them, you just need to install the Mac OS 9 compatibility program which can be found on the Mac OS X Install CD.
How do I get Mac OS 9 software to work on OSX?
Mac OS 9 software requires Mac OS 9, which was discontinued in 2002, to work. Early versions of Mac OS X came with Mac OS 9 included (referred to as Classic mode) which could be activated from System Preferences. The latest versions of Mac OS X no longer support Classic mode. It will depend upon your specific Mac model whether a version of Mac OS 9 can be persuaded to work.
What is Mac OS X and types of Mac OS X operating system?
Mac OS X is an operating system released by Apple Inc. It is designed for Apple branded computers, which is why you will never see a Dell, or an HP computer run Mac OS X. There are only two important versions of Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and regular Mac OS X. Mac OS X server was designed for servers, while regular Mac OS X was designed for most computers. The current version of Mac OS X (10.6) is named Snow Leopard.
How do you see the Mac OS 9 Classic desktop in mac OS X 10.2.8?
Go to system preferences. Open the Classic system preference, and you should see the option to start up in classic mode.
How do you change from Vista OS to Mac OS?
You cannot run OS X on a windows machine.
