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Re:iBook Classic emulation question - 2007/10/08 10:22Thank you for welcoming me to the forum, and I appreciate your reply very much.
I am trying to run old Classic educational programs on an iBook. Some of these programs require a screen display in 256 colors.
Would you know if the iBook G3's that boot in Classic mode also have the option of changing the screen display to 256 colors?
Thank you again for being there to help all us idiots.
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Re:iBook Classic emulation question - 2007/10/08 10:45I have been checking the internet for refurbished/used iBooks.
Most dealers are selling iBooks with Mac OS 10 installed.
How does one get a disk to install OS 9 ? How hard is it to install OS 9 on a machine that already has OS 10 installed? Can you have both on the hard drive?
thank you again. I am an educator, and it would really be helpful to find an iBook that will run some of these Classic learning programs.
I hope the iBooks also have the option to change the screen display to 256 colors as some of these educational programs only run in 256 color mode.
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Re:iBook Classic emulation question - 2007/10/09 01:26I can't say for sure about the iBook's ability to run the screen in 256 colors but as far as I can remember every Mac I ever had would run in 256 colors, although I probably never tried on some of them. There should be no reason it won't run in 256 colors but I don't have an iBook to test that on.
Installing OS 9 on a hard drive with OS X is easy and all you need to do is boot from the OS 9 install CD and run the installer. It will tell you there is already an OS on the hard drive but just click OK to install and it won't remove the OS X system.
But if the drive was not set up with the OS 9 drivers when it was originally formatted for OS X it will not boot into OS 9 but will run "classic mode". Hopefully the owner clicked the "install OS 9 drivers" box when the install was done.
If the OS 9 driver was not installed prior to the OS X install you will have to reformat the drive and re-install both OS's (and check the OS 9 driver install box) to get the iBook to boot into OS 9xx. There may be another way to add the OS 9 driver but i don't have a clue how you would do it.
Maybe one of the other members can check the monitor settings on their iBook to see if it has the 256 color option. I would also try the Apple forums in their support section. They have an iBook specific forum and you should be able to get a definite answer.
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