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Orion27 · Feb 23, 2003, 11:59 AM

Mac Rumors reports MacBidouille hack to
boot new Power Macs in OS 9. I could use
this.Who is going to be the brave soul
and report back to us??

Leonard · Feb 23, 2003, 01:10 PM

Actually if you read the comments on the article, you'll notice that a user "iJon" tried it and it didn't work.

The thing is, these instructions are just a hack to install Mac OS 9 from a disk image on the restore CD. This is what you would have to do if you wanted to reinstall MacOS 9 if you have no Mac OS 9 CD, and you don't want to do a complete restore. That's it. It isn't a hack to boot the new Macs into OS9. To do that you'd have to hack the ROM or firmware.

Orion27 · Feb 23, 2003, 02:25 PM

As I suspected, but I thought just maybe.
I'd liked to have found a work around for
the security dongle which prevents me from
using my favorite design program on my new Mac.

Hi I'm Ben · Feb 23, 2003, 06:35 PM

i wanna hack mybrand new system to run a OS that has been out of production for 2 years. It probably still freezes once a day too.