On Oct 22,  2:34pm, Richard Massey wrote:
[I wrote:]
>>Wish-I-Were did work for getting 8.5 onto the Jaz disk (I made it think
>>it was a 6100/60), but when trying to boot from it, it still says that
>>it cannot work with my hardware...
>I suspect that the difference between the two attempts is that 8.1 is the
>last system to contain 68K code (it will run on 040 machines) whereas 8.5
>is PPC code only. Consequently the machine cannot boot successfully as the
>OS has to be able to talk to the (68K in these machines) ROM.
>8.1 is probably the last MacOS to run on any machine with 68K hardware
>(even those with PPC cards).

It got as far as putting up the splash screen before it popped up the
message, so I'd argue that most of the functionality is there.  Disk,
graphics, other h/w pieces...

~Steve

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