Each time I try to run iTunes for Mac OS 8, it crashes. This is the one to use if your Mac is running OS 8, right? There’s always a CD player ( so ’90s!) handy.Īfter the patch does its thing, you now have another version of iTunes sitting in the iTunes folder, with a “for Mac OS 8” title. If this means I live without iTunes’s CD ripping abilities, I’ll live. For one, it’s probably the longest non-gibberish warning dialog I’ve ever seen.

I had enough trouble finding a USB patch for Mac OS 8, so I opted not to include the CD authoring support. Pick your copy of iTunes, select everything you want to install (above), and away it goes.Įxcept that if you pick the “CD Authoring” options, you get this weird warning about incompatibility and USB devices. The patch and the two iTunes files now sitting side by side in the spatial Finder, running the patch is a no-frills affair. Instead of today’s well-known double eighth note, the iTunes icon used to sport three eighth notes, all different colors. There it sits on your hard drive, useless and almost foreign with that classic icon. If you try simply installing iTunes on the Mac’s hard drive, it will proceed as normal. In my case (and from what I could gather), the best place was the Documents folder. Developed by Loizos Pavlides and last updated in 2001, the patch requires that the iTunes.smi file, the patch installer, and the iTunes installer all reside on the same slab of hard drive space. Load the patch, install iTunes 1.0 or 1.1, and enjoy the wonderfulness of Apple’s first version of its now-dominant music app.Įxcept when it comes to legacy software, patches, and theoretically-incompatible operating systems, failure is always an option.įirst, the patch. Apparently, the original version 1.0 and 1.1 are both able to run on Mac OS 8.6, with help from a certain patch. I grabbed the final copy of Audion, but wondered if OS 8 could handle an early copy of iTunes. These are apps like SoundJam, iTunes predecessor, and Audion from Panic. Apps like a good, sturdy browser, an image editor, and a music player are all important.įor music, I have a few options – all apps that, as the classic Mac OS period ended, paved the way for iTunes’s dominance. As I get ready for Seven Days of System 7 (or, more accurately, OS 8), my focus is on loading my PowerMac G3 with software that I might need over the week.

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