Installers for Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.2.2

[Totusek]

As a long-time Mac user (going back to the Mac PLUS and Macintosh Operating System 3 in the 1980s) who is a member of MUGs, I get requests for help from PCI Power Macintosh users running Mac OS 8.x - Mac OS 9.x.x for the G-Force and WhiteCap Installers for Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.2.2.

When users need to re-install (when re-installing after reformatting, or after upgrading their SCSI machines with newer, larger SCSI hard disks, etc.), they are quite dismayed to find the download links at Sound Spectrum for both G-Force and WhiteCap for non-OS X Macintosh have been removed.

Many of these users own a number of Macs - 68k CPU machines on up through PPC 604e, G3, G4 and G5 CPU machines - and have no wish to trash much of their perfectly functioning hardwares and/or softwares (that often cannot run under OS X, or on Intel CPU machines), that they have also spent their hard earned money on.

Therefore, in order to respond to these requests, and since Sound Spectrum will not do this itself, I wish G-Force and WhiteCap user help in assembling a user-created archive of the older G-Force and WhiteCap Installers for Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.2.2, and (since the online G-Force and WhiteCap FAQs often lacks the information) creating a document or page that lists what Mac OS builds which versions worked with, etc.

The fact that long-time traditional or "Classic"-booting Macintosh users are often now treated worse by some OS X only users (who strangely almost seem to hate the entire history and legacy of the Apple Macintosh Platform), than they are by Windows users, shows a fragmenting of the Macintosh Platform into those who use:

1) traditional or "Classic"-booting Macintosh (68k and/or PowerPC), and OS X PPC machines, and/or OS X under Apple Intel CPU machines, and have a respect for all;

2) traditional or "Classic" Mac OS booting (68k and/or PowerPC) Macintosh machines only;

3) OS X PPC machines only - with or without the "Classic" Emulation Environment installed;

4) OS X under Apple Intel CPU machines only;

5) OS X under generic (non-Apple) Intel CPU machines running Windows also.

- Totusek