unable to install Klash in Konquereror cannot view flash

[Eric Dunbar]

Hi Bill, this is my assessment of Flash under YDL on an 8600:

1. The open source flash simply won't run 90% of the Flash code out
there. It supports too little flash code, is too buggy and will, in
all likelihood, not work! Basically the project has died because Adobe
released a Flash binary for x86 Linux.

2. Running Bochs is NOT a viable option to give you Windows 95. Even
if you had the last and fastest G5 PPC tower (probably 100s of times
faster than an 8600), Bochs wouldn't be viable since it's too
unstable!

3. Running a Mac OS under MOL is your only option to run Flash, and,
if you're going to do _that_, why don't you just run the Mac OS
directly?

On 28/10/06, Bill Perrotta <billperrotta at yahoo.com> wrote:
> is os9 really shockwave flash compatible? if someone assures me of thos i
> can probably get an oem version on ebay.

I won't GUARANTEE you this (in case you sue me ;-), but here's what I found:

Macromedia Flash for Mac OS 9:
<http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=MacPPC>
<http://tinyurl.com/njpmk>

System Requirements for Mac OS 9:
<http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/flashplayer7/>

You should be able to get OS 9 for next to nothing (S/H) from LEM
swap. Go to http://www.lowendmac.com and join the swap list at
http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/swap.html. Post your request for an OS
9 CD.

Alternately, check out http://www.craigslist.org for your area and
post a request for Mac OS 9.

For browsers for Mac OS 9, I suggest you check out:
http://www.icab.de

iCab is the only browser that's in active development. It can handle
some web sites that the others cannot but it can't handle secure
sites.

You'd also want to have Internet Explorer 5.1 and Netscape Navigator
4.7.x. Opera 6.0.2 is also not a bad one to have around. You can
experiment with these browsers and see which one is your favourite.

Once you have created a fully-functioning Mac OS 9 machine, I would
advise you to burn the whole HD to CD. This will make restoring the
computer easy! To restore the computer, all you'll need to do is boot
the computer. Move everything to the trash and then copy the whole
CD's content's to the HD. Restart and empty trash. The whole system
has been replaced (yes, OS 9 was extremely simple to replace).

CAVEAT: Mac OS 9 is not exactly the most stable beast in the world,
especially if you're accessing internet over dial-up.

PS Other stuff you'd want to do to OS 9...
- Update OS 9 to 9.2.2. Do that before you set things up. Ask me if
you've got questions about that when the time comes.
- Update QuickTime to the last version for OS 9.
- Install the last version of iTunes for OS 9 (if available).
- Install the latest version of GraphicConverter
(http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm)
- Install the last version of Stuffit Expander for OS 9
(http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/21044)
- Install BBEdit Lite
(http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/604)... text editor
- Install Eudora or Outlook Express for OS 9 for e-mail

Any questions, just ask.

Eric.