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USB 1.4.2 in MacOS ROM file-Addressed sound issue upon waking from sleep mode-New audio extension Sound Manager and CD/DVD driver-Y2K Patch with new Date & Time Control Panel-Lates version of MacOS 9 able to run on SheepShaver due to SheepShaver's lack of MMU. Download Mac OS 9.0.4 US for Mac.

Mac OS 9 Booting On: Mac Mini G4 (Detailed Posts)

This is Mac OS 9.0, the most latest and final Classic Mac OS release before Mac OS X. This page contains downloads for Mac OS 9.0.x series (not Mac OS 9.1 or later).

See also: Mac OS 9.x Integrated Page, Mac OS 9.1 + extras, Mac OS 9.2.1 Universal, Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal

1. Machine-Specific Installers

Mac OS 9.0

MacOS90CD.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0 Retail CD-ROM image.MD5 Checksum: 59CF3A63C0148E087A180D240323AA7F

International Mac OS 9.0

More International Releases are found in Mac OS Anthology '99 Disc 7-8.See Also Mac OS 9.0 (Italian)

Japanese CD Scan

MacOS90CD_JP.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0 Retail CD-ROM image (Japanese).MD5 Checksum: A212B959A1771C208B948621CCCFF6B0

MacOS90CD_ES.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0 Retail CD-ROM image (Spanish).MD5 Checksum: 1016297690602E515F8F4F0A2FF2FAB2

Mac OS 9.0.4

Here is the Mac OS 9.0.4, mostly some system fixes and enhancements.

See Also: Mac OS 9.0.4 US

Mac_OS_9.0.4_US.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0.4 Retail CD-ROM image (US English).

MacOS904CD_Intl.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0.4 Retail CD-ROM image (International English).MD5 Checksum: A1B0494F1629AA7E18426449C0EE7732

MacOS904CD_DE.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0.4 Retail CD-ROM image (German).MD5 Checksum: 8DD7D8CDB5E62B04CF1DCC0CC5883890

MacOS904CD_ES.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0.4 Retail CD-ROM image (Spanish) [Note: Disk is not bootable].MD5 Checksum: B7AA8F51C9021719AE699216B6E258FE

MacOS904Updt_WW.ZIP: Built CD image containing worldwide Mac OS 9.0.4 Update disk images. Missing updates: Danish, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese-Brazilian. Not available separately, you have to download them all insteadMD5 Checksum: E20E96948A2028B0B874E39333C4BFB8

Mac OS 9.0.4 Internal Edition CD-ROM

This is the Mac OS 9.0.4 CD-ROM special edition provided by Apple IS&T for internal use only. It includes the base Mac OS 9.0.4 installer with the guided way to install (such as unlocking disks, check drive using Norton Disk Doctor, etc.) as well some extra goodies that were exclusively available internally for Apple employers such as Apple software like AppleWorks 6.0.4 and QuickTime 4.1.2, several site licensed software such as Acrobat Reader 4.05a, Microsoft Office 98, FileMaker Pro 5.0v3, and Norton Utilities 5.0.3, and other nice software.

MacOS904_Internal.ZIP: Mac OS 9.0.4 Internal Edition CD-ROM image.MD5 Checksum: 9513BCFD73AB3C8510125F383FB9DDFE

Machine-Specific Installers

iMac DV 400MHz

Here are the install/restore discs for iMac G3 DV Slot Loading 400MHz. The install CD includes the base Mac OS, other programs, and also a special installer for iMac G3 DV Slot Loading 400MHz, with some extras on the CD. And the restore CD includes the original hard disk settings disk image with Mac OS 9.0 and some bundled software such as AppleWorks 5.0.4, Bugdom 1.0.1, iMovie 1.0.1 and Quicken Deluxe 2000 v9.0.

Install CD Scan

Restore CD Scan

iMacDV90CD_Inst.ZIP: iMac DV 400MHz installation CD-ROM image.MD5 Checksum: 895128D2D7E80852A8004E380DB1A4C8

iMacDV90CD_Rest.ZIP: iMac DV 400MHz restoration CD-ROM image.MD5 Checksum: B3942599D23CEE467F4EF38F208564B8 Kannada masti.

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iMacDVJP90CD_Rest.ZIP: iMac DV 400MHz restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0 Japanese).MD5 Checksum: DB5E304618CD230583EFD5ACA7BA1531

iMac Summer 2000 350MHz

This is the restore CD of iMac Summer 2000 350MHz, came with Mac OS 9.0 International English and other programs such as AppleWorks, FAXstf, Bugdom, and more, all in one hard disk image.

I was wondering why the iMac Summer 2000 can boot Mac OS 9.0 since the minimum system is 9.0.4?

iMacS200090ZCD_Rest.ZIP: iMac Summer 2000 350MHz restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0 International).MD5 Checksum: 508170C5133AEB9DE1E177693BDD2882

iMacCH90CD_Inst.ZIP: iMac installation CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0 Chinese-Simplified).MD5 Checksum: 3DE99E1816802B2B1DFC26098B8F92D4

iBook G3 Clamshell without FireWire

Here are the install/restore discs for iBook G3 Clamshell without FireWire. The install CD includes the base Mac OS, other programs, and also a special installer for iBook G3 without FireWire, with some extras on the CD. And the restore CD includes the original hard disk settings disk image with Mac OS 9.0 and some bundled software such as AppleWorks and Bugdom.

iBookNoFW90CD_Inst.ZIP: iBook G3 Clamshell without FireWire installation CD-ROM image.MD5 Checksum: 6AFC4E2C2226BEF0ED2DB636BB33F207

iBookNoFW90CD_Rest.ZIP: iBook G3 Clamshell without FireWire restoration CD-ROM image.MD5 Checksum: 41E5EF0F827E303882C0B849DF643E64

iBook G3 Clamshell with FireWire

See Also: Mac OS 9.0.4 (iBook 'Clamshell' FireWire)

PowerBook G3 FireWire

Mac Os X Download

Here are the install/restore discs of PowerBook G3 FireWire. The install CD includes the base Mac OS 9.0.4, other programs, and also a special installer for PowerBook G3 FireWire, with some extras on the CD. And the restore CD includes the original hard disk settings disk image with Mac OS 9.0.4 and basic applications.

Install and Restore CD scans

PBFW904CD_Inst.ZIP: PowerBook G3 FireWire installation CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4).

PBFW904CD_Rest.ZIP: PowerBook G3 FireWire restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4).MD5 Checksum: 59680ABE890DE5CC34DC6D612F03A810

PowerBook G3 Pismo M7572

See Also: Mac OS 9.0.2 & 9.0.4 (PowerBook G3 Pismo M7572)

iMac Summer 2000 DV

This is the restore CD of iMac Summer 2000 DV 400/450MHz, came with Mac OS 9.0.4 and other programs such as AppleWorks 6.0.4, iMovie 2.0.1, Bugdom, and more, all in one hard disk image.

iMacS2000904CD_Rest.ZIP: iMac Summer 2000 DV 400/450MHz restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4).MD5 Checksum: AEB0ED02EFF30B0BDD641EE557F2BAEF

Macintosh Server G4

See Also: Mac OS 9.0.4 (Macintosh Server G4)

Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics

Here are the install/restore discs for G4 AGP Graphics ('Sawtooth'). The install CD includes the base Mac OS, other programs, and also a special installer for G4 AGP Graphics, with some extras on the CD. And the restore CD includes the original hard disk settings disk image with Mac OS 9.0 and basic applications.

9.0.2 Restore CD Scan

NOTE: The 9.0.4 CDs has the special build of Mac OS specifically designed for the G4 AGP Graphics and will not boot in other G4 models.

PMG4AGP90ZCD_Inst.ZIP: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics installation CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0 International).MD5 Checksum: ED3C006426F421A1B45FB5DCD97792EC

PMG4AGP90ZCD_Rest.ZIP: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0 International).MD5 Checksum: 5B715F5161D5541F860C0F81FC166ECF

PowerMac G4 AGP Restore 9.0.2.zip: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0).

PMG4AGP904CD_Inst.ZIP: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics installation CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4).MD5 Checksum: 45561EBE0A91EC9A7F1FDAF7A168C92F

PMG4AGP904CD_Rest.ZIP: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4).MD5 Checksum: F340E04CE089831E8723017961FCF327

PMG4AGP904ZCD_Inst.ZIP: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics installation CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4 International).MD5 Checksum: 8E1A0E9E39868CDC8521A07B25D8CA5D

PMG4AGP904ZCD_Rest.ZIP: Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4 International).MD5 Checksum: 2F4310543D099BA2798C9C111945794B

Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet

Here are the install/restore discs of Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet. The install CD includes the base International English 9.0.4, other programs, and also a special installer for G4 Gigabit Ethernet, with some extras on the CD. The restore CD includes the original hard disk settings disk image with International English 9.0.4 and some bundled software like Acrobat Reader 4.0, iMovie 2.0.1, and everything else.

PMG4GE904ZCD_Inst.ZIP: Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet installation CD-ROM v2.2 image (Mac OS 9.0.4 International).MD5 Checksum: D1D19A44C663F417FA8EA51B124A4B8C

PMG4GE904ZCD_Rest.ZIP: Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet restoration CD-ROM v2.2 image (Mac OS 9.0.4 International).MD5 Checksum: 37EDBF000DEF179426B3EBDD6B0FEE65

Power Mac G4 Cube

Here are the install/restore discs of Power Mac G4 Cube. The install CD includes the base Mac OS 9.0.4, other programs, and also a special installer for G4 Cube, with some extras on the CD. The restore CD includes the original hard disk settings disk image with Mac OS 9.0.4 and some bundled software like Acrobat Reader 4.0, iMovie 2.0.1, and everything else.

G4Cube904CD_Inst.ZIP: Power Mac G4 Cube installation CD-ROM v2.0 image (Mac OS 9.0.4).MD5 Checksum: 4E432605BE1B44DF8A1CDFA3B1318FDB

G4Cube904CD_Rest.ZIP: Power Mac G4 Cube restoration CD-ROM v2.0 image (Mac OS 9.0.4).MD5 Checksum: 3394EEA18863567620907C795A97D3EA

G4CubeTA904CD_Inst.ZIP: Power Mac G4 Cube installation CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4 Chinese-Traditional).MD5 Checksum: F8F21CABD3C5697F72A80CE1187E130B

G4CubeD904CD_Rest.sit: Power Mac G4 Cube restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.0.4 German).

G4Cube91CD_Rest.zip: Power Mac G4 Cube restoration CD-ROM image (Mac OS 9.1).

Mac OS 9.0.4 is the last version to boot successfully in SheepShaver. For G4 AGP install, it has the special build of Mac OS specifically designed for the G4 AGP Graphics and will not boot in other G4 models.

To run on Mac OS 9.0.4 on QEMU, you need Mac OS ROM v5.2.1 (which can be found from PM G4 Cube CD-ROM).

For several years now, I have had an old iMac G3 from about 2000 sitting around in one corner of my home office. It works perfectly fine, but I rarely start it up because I really don’t have much of a use for it most days. Occasionally, I play old games or run old software that I still have from 20 years ago, but those occasions are few and far between.

But today boredom and curiosity got the better of me.

I fired up the old iMac and, as usual, it reliably started right up. Compared to my modern MacBook Pro, however, it is obviously noisy, slow and the resolution is terrible. Those are always the first things that strike me whenever I decide to use the iMac, so the thought I had today was: why not try to emulate Mac OS 9 on my MacBook Pro running macOS 10.15 Catalina instead of always having to boot my iMac?

Emulation cannot, of course, replace the experience of actually using the iMac though since it doesn’t give you the full immersion experience of using an authentically vintage computer. Whenever I sit in frontend of that old CRT screen listening to it hum, I always feel a bit like I did back then when I was in school and using AppleWorks on one of these colorful machines to type up my homework — usually some essay first written by hand.

But I digress. I decided to try to emulate Mac OS 9 on my MacBook Pro so that I wouldn’t always have to start the iMac whenever I felt like playing Age of Empires, Civilization III, the original Tomb Raider or Railroad Tycoon II. Plus, I figured I could really jack up the specs on the emulator which would allow me to play a few more games that my iMac won’t run (it only has 64 MB of RAM). Not to mention I could then also run Photoshop 6 again. (the last version of Photoshop I purchased).

Researching Emulators

The first thing I did was to look around online for other people’s experiences with emulating Mac OS 9. The most commonly run emulators for older Macintosh systems are SheepShaver and Basilisk II, both of which I have used before to emulate System 7 just for fun. SheepShaver seemed to be what people were using to emulate Mac OS 9, however, so that is what I went with.

I followed the instructions on their website for setting it up which worked well and I was, with a bit more research on other websites, able to use my iMac in order to extract a valid ROM which is required to run an older Macintosh operating system. With the ROM I was able to get SheepShaver running, Next, I needed to install the operating system itself.

Installing the Operating System

The next piece that was missing though was a Mac OS 9 install disk. My iMac came with one, but it doesn’t work with SheepShaver because it came with Mac OS 9.1. SheepShaver only works up to Mac OS 9.0.4 because it does not emulate the MMU (Memory Management Unit) which was a requirement for Mac OS 9.1 and above.

Instead, I ended up downloading an image of an install CD from Macintosh Garden which is an excellent website to download vintage Mac software. I was able to get it to work with the Mac OS 9.0.4 Universal Install image.

Installing Software

I now have a bootable, usable Mac OS 9 instance on my modern MacBook Pro. It runs with 512 MB of RAM and has 4 GB of hard drive space. I was able to install most of my old games and software on it, although I did run into an issue with getting macOS 10.15 to mount some of the old Apple HFS-formatted CDs so that I could install them. As a work around, I had to use the Disk Copy utility on my old iMac to create .IMG files out of them which I could then transfer to my MacBook via a USB drive (ironcially FAT32-formatted) and then mount into SheepShaver. That was a bit of a hassle, but it worked.

I also browsed Macintosh Garden for a while and found a few new games and other bits of software that looked interesting that I am looking forward to trying out.

An Easier Solution

I spent most of a day doing what I described above just to stumble upon an easier solution later on that would have saved me a lot of hassle. I will share this solution with you now, but not without saying that I still enjoyed the whole process described above.

The solution is a pre-made instance of SheepShaver running Mac OS 9.0.4 that includes a number of utilities and other pieces of software. The ROM is also included and the whole bundle is packaged into a simple, runnable application for macOS 10.10 and above. That means, all you have to do is download it, unzip it, move it to your Application folder and run it. Mac OS 9 boots right up and you don’t have to do a thing otherwise.

You can find and download this brilliant solution for free on http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html.

Conclusion

They say no article is complete without a conclusion. Well, mine is this: Mac OS 9 is still fun to use and the fact that I now have a lightning-fast version of it running in an emulator on my modern MacBook is a real treat and convenience factor when I get the itch to play old games.

So now, unless I want the full 20-year-old immersion experience, I no longer have to fire up the old iMac in order to run my old software. Instead, I can conveniently sit with my laptop on the couch and play like it’s 1999.

This article originally appeared on Alex’s Notebook.