I chose Macintosh Garden as the main publisher, since all the people
who would be interested in this are here.
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After a lot of frustration trying to run Mac OS 9 natively on my
PowerBook, I decided that the most viable way to run my classic games
would be through the classic environment of Mac OS X 10.4. But for
everything to work satisfactorily, it would take a huge effort to
research and modify the system, and in my opinion, that would only be
worth my time, if it were to help the community of PPC lovers, so I
did it.
## To understand my choices a little better, I will list them and
explain why I made them.
> Mac OS X 10.4.11
>
> When it comes to classic environment, we all know that Tiger is not
> the best choice, he suffers from performance problems in classic,
> Apple seemed to be trying to kill classic once and for all, to force
> developers to migrate to OS X. So, why did I choose this version?
> Simple! My goal is to make the most recent PPC machines run
> satisfactorily on Mac OS 9, many machines from the year 2005 do not
> support another version of the older Mac OS X.
>
> So what good has all this effort been done to modify the system, if
> Tiger is not good with classic?
> \- Simple! Because I ported the Classic from Panther (10.3) to
> Tiger! With that, we have a performance of 30 to 60% better than in
> the original classic of the system!
>
> In addition, I optimized the entire system so that the center of
> attention is our beloved Mac OS 9. This means that I removed some
> things from OS X that were not important, so that the system runs
> better and faster, BUT ... you you will still have the best of both
> worlds! Things that were not possible in Mac OS 9, can now be
> useful! How about a Mac OS 9 with native support for your AirPort
> card, WPA? Or support for screen brightness, fan speed control,
> remote control, bluetooth, java, and even our beloved TenFourFox,
> already configured to have the best possible performance (believe
> me, it is incredibly fast in this build).
>
> You may be asking yourself now: But that sucks, an OS X Tiger with a
> classic, any Mac does it! - Not quite. I built this system, so that
> it was a secondary system in a bi-partitioned HD. It is the
> reincarnation of Mac OS 9, the several hours I spent on this system,
> it was improving the performance and compatibility with OS 9, in
> addition, 90% of the graphical interface is with the Platinum visual
> and also acts / responds like it, for you to feel at home, as if in
> OS 9. It is basically a Mac OS 9 running under the Mac OS X
> platform, which serves as a basis for mediating between legacy and
> unsupported "modern" hardware. Classic may not be exactly the same
> as OS 9, but on an unsupported G4 or G5, it's either it or nothing.
## What still needs to be done...
> \- I would like to customize the boot screen to insert the image at
> the beginning of the post, unfortunately the apps available to
> change the image of the boot screen do not resize the image, they
> just change. I plan on replacing the current boot screen with the
> Happy Mac image on the gray screen. Suggestions?
>
> \- I combed through all the OS X documentation and found nothing
> about it: As soon as the boot screen ends, the system starts the
> graphical interface (a blue background) then a window written
> Starting Mac OS X ... appears. I would like to change the BLUE COLOR
> in the background, but I haven't found anything about it.
>
> I placed a trash can on the work area provisionally. It is not the
> best choice, it does not work as well as I expected. I tried the tip
> to create a shortcut to ./Trash, but the problem is that it will
> only work for the drive where the trash is, and the icon does not
> change to empty trash / Trash full.
>
> \- Unfortunately Dock is necessary for the desktop to work. I'm
> still looking for a solution to hide it forever.
>
> \- My initial idea was to modify classic.app so that it would run in
> full screen. There is even a tip out there about changing something
> in the Mac OS 9 Finder, so that the OS 9 Finder can be seen, but
> still, somehow, classic does not allow you to see the desktop, and
> this was the great flaw that made me change my mind, so I decided to
> modify the entire OS X. I tried to run MacOS.app from Mac OS X DP2
> and 3, because it allows you to run classic in full screen, but
> unfortunately it doesn't work outside the original system. Searching
> the classic Panther code, I found entries for a button called Show
> Mac OS 9 desktop, but it seems to have been disabled during
> compilation.
>
> \- A strange bug happens when I try to run Doom 1 from 1996 on any
> version of classic: The game runs by skipping frames, but in a
> certain region of the screen, the game runs perfectly at a high
> frame rate (as it should be). I will only be able to play it if I
> change the screen resolution to as low as 800x600.
Despite all the hard work, the system is not yet ready, I will
continue the development after voluntary testers report tips,
opinions, problems, etc...
## Mirrors:
classix1.0.dmg
[Mega.Nz Mirror][2]
## How to use:
Dual boot:
First of all you need to partition your HD (if you want to keep your
current system + ClassiX), I will not go into details on how to do
this so as not to create a giant topic. Then use the disk drive to
write the dmg to the new partition. When the process is over, you can
select the system by system preferences / startup disk, or hold the
Option key on the keyboard when starting your Mac.
ClassiX only:
Copy classix.dmg to a pendrive, start your Mac with the Mac OS X 10.4
CD, select disk drive, open the dmg on the pendrive, and restore to
your hard drive.
Note: The first boot can take a little time. Within the system, a
defragmenter is included, it is recommended that you repair the
permissions, and defragment the system before you start using it.
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
To be tested...
[1]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/classix.png
[2]:
https://mega.nz/file/VWZBkQrB#aCGOdImdBhU0l0XNA0skB9imi4GjqtvZ0tk40hX6IfY
