One of the things I'm unhappy with about my PB G4 12" is that it won't dual-boot OS 9 and X. Can you hack the firmware to allow it to? I know why Apple got rid of support, but I really wish they hadn't. And, thinking into the future, do you think they'll still have Classic support for the x86 version of Tiger? I would assume it will be gone in Leopard, but what about Tiger? It shouldn't be too much trouble, seeing as the Mactels will probably have a base level 2.66 or above processor.

Apple won't wase their time with porting OS 9 to a x86 CPU.

That wasn't what I was suggesting... I was thinking that they might have an emulator built-in to the Rosetta system. Since Rosetta is supposedly "no lag," putting OS 9 on top of it shouldn't really be much of a problem. You are correct, though: a port would be pointless.

Why in the world would you want to use OS9? No matter, you can use classic. I know its not the same. You could always sell you book and buy one that is dual boot.
-maestro

The last book to dual boot is the 1ghz titanium, I believe. A VERY nice book at that.

Get an older machine

Post edited by: shadowboxer47, at: 2005/10/09 13:15

I wouldn't give up this computer, and I have an old iMac that I suppose I could use, but I would need to put more RAM into it. I was just hoping there would be some way to do it on my primary machine, and I'm not giving up hope. I have a friend who just hacked his iBook G3 (solid white with opaque keyboard) to run while closed, so he could use an external screen effectively, so I think this could be done. It may be more work than it's worth, but oh well. As far as why, there are still apps that I use that haven't been ported to OS X, and running them in classic is, well, inefficient. And since the processor in this 'Book is only 1.33 GHz, I can't really keep it running in the background all the time, which would make it less inefficient, but still... OS 9 was a great OS, safer in many ways than OS X, and I really think Apple should keep that in mind.

I wouldn't give up this computer, and I have an old iMac that I suppose I could use, but I would need to put more RAM into it. I was just hoping there would be some way to do it on my primary machine, and I'm not giving up hope. I have a friend who just hacked his iBook G3 (solid white with opaque keyboard) to run while closed, so he could use an external screen effectively, so I think this could be done. It may be more work than it's worth, but oh well. As far as why, there are still apps that I use that haven't been ported to OS X, and running them in classic is, well, inefficient. And since the processor in this 'Book is only 1.33 GHz, I can't really keep it running in the background all the time, which would make it less inefficient, but still... OS 9 was a great OS, safer in many ways than OS X, and I really think Apple should keep that in mind.

I'm with you on that. I have many pro apps in classic that I use all the time. Since they do the job, I see no reason in spending $$$ on buying an OSX version.

There's always hope. If you get it to work, do a Mod Guide!

I know with PCs you can use like Lilo and GRUB from Linux to boot multiple OSes with out Linux being on the system. Can't you do that with Yabboot?