Classic

[tavman]

The classic environment, begins to load, I get the windows with the mac smiling in it, and then just closes?

what am i doing wrong?

i have mac os 9 installed on a second partition.

[marin]

Man, classic is pretty stable. It should work. I am almost sure it's the extensions. Try holding shift while the classic is booting...

[sype]

My Classic environment doesn't startup either. If i double-click a MacOS 9 app or start Classic manually, the same thing happens: MacOS 9 boots inside Classic, but as soon as it's completely booted, Classic suddenly disappears, leaving absolutely no trace what so ever!

What's unusual is that the Classic environment loading window doesn't refresh properly. When Classic is starting up, I see the smiling Mac, then the MacOS 9 welcome screen, but the window refreshing stops there... I don't see the extensions loading or the Finder appearing... I have to click the small triangle to hide and show the small Classic screen to update the display. If I hit the triangle repeatedly, I can see the extensions loading and even my MacOS 9 desktop appear... But as soon as the desktop is completely visible, the Classic app quits without any sign of trouble...

Bottom line : I can't use the Classic environment on my PowerBook G3 FireWire 400, 192MB RAM, planty of hard disk space, no extra stuff added except the AirPort card.

[ah_pook]

I think the problem could be related to the specific
extensions of your OS 9 ....

I have the same problem, and thought that it was
related only to the small amount of RAM (64 megs)
but if the same problem manifest with 192 megs ....

I'd try to reduce the extensions to a minimum,
or leaving away third party ones at the beginning.

Apple should post a list of problematic extensions ....

[blake]

I too am having problems with Classic under Mac OS X.
It begines to load, shows a dialog box, and then just disappears. It is on a seperat partition however...

any takers?

-Adam

[reuteler]

yea, i have to say i think there's something to this.

i have macos9 installed on another partition (first one
as suggested). i had a fresh install upgraded to 9.04
(as well as normal one) and i get as far as the progress
meter 1/16 across the screen. sometimes. often
i get nowhere. then it just dies. i have noticed that
extensions requiring input (bootx for linuxppc) screw
it up. i can, of course, boot into it just fine.

well, hell. i'm in it for BSD so i don't really care
about Classic. but i do suspect i'm in the minority.

dave

[garretwp]

Guys you have to read the post. Turn your extensions to a min. and you will have classic loaing in no time. I to had the same problem but i turned them to a min. and it works great. Try to turn them off.

[blake]

I changed my extention set to Mac OS 9.0.4 base and it still hangs and disappears while trying to load Classic in X. I am wondering if it is because it is on a seperate
partition...

-Adam