Installing OS X Jaguar on an iBook G3 but Everything Goes Wrong-ish...

[@cakey.0893]

you know the video is going to be good when the title says "but everything goes wrong" and its almost half an hour.

[@cam-f8k]

Wrong-ISH

[@celestinonatale]

​​@@cam-f8k Close enough.

[@borkrz]

this video is neither

[@itisliamhfjone22]

i agree

[@Syllacrostics]

Never clicked so fast… 😂

[@scorch527]

Ah the rarely seen Max OS Jagwire.

[@DanielTheBigD]

I was thinking the same thing 😂

[@gustiwidyanta5492]

I installed a *Jaaaaaaaaaggg* in my IBook

[@colinstu]

OMG I KNOW. Jag-u-ar.... can't stand the US "JAG-WIRE" ... and I'm american.

[@dataterminal]

I spent the first half the video thinking we'd be seeing some kind of mod for Jaguar installer

[@TheyCallMePeters]

@@gustiwidyanta5492 not sure if you are referencing PBG but if so, "I understood that reference" ;)

[@ActionRetro]

Man I miss this style of interface

[@MichaelMJD]

Hey! Congrats on 100k by the way

[@ActionRetro]

@@MichaelMJDhaha thanks man!

[@fox.9879]

makes me real sad that the only way to get it back is to but the old hardware or us a vm

[@awesomechad7716]

​​@@MichaelMJD I know it's been a while since you've made development videos, but if it's possible, could you make a few more on Windows 1.0, 3.0 to 3.1, NT 3.1 to 4.0, 2000 and 11? (srry I just love these types of videos)

[@smell4685]

​@MichaelMJD nice to see creators supporting creators 🙂

[@SugarTearz2003]

The “everything goes wrong” series has to be my absolute favorite lmao

[@itisliamhfjone22]

i agree

[@Yarumasi]

It just doesnt feel right if everything goes TOO well. Its like installing old XP discs and its missing a driver you needed real badly to progress

[@soybean_56]

Something about the “But everything goes wrong” videos just bring the absolute comfy vibe I look for : )

[@Lampe2020]

11:09 So Apple is just a very long-running april fools joke? XD

[@b.deonchris]

damn, Imagine Steve Wozniak being like "shall we start a company as a joke, Steve?"

[@fox.9879]

"we should also fuck around with this tv typewriter i got and sell it" @@b.deonchris

[@itsjoe8443]

That tangerine color is so precious, I need one for my collection but they’re rare to find at a reasonable price ☹️

[@OctavioGaitan]

Your best bets are thrift stores and swap meets. I've managed to snag some old Macs from places like them for next to nothing.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Nah they are gaudy as fuck!

[@christopherwilliams9418]

@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Rather be gaudy than boring. Silver is the new beige.

[@mustafahasan957]

One of the best moments when you open youtube and find a new MJD video 🎉

[@dinowars0078]

and that everything goes wrong is in the title

[@itisliamhfjone22]

@@dinowars0078 and it involves installing somthing

[@bryo4321]

I still find the aqua interface absolutely beautiful. I love the colors and shiny fruit gusher looking buttons. They’re like liquid filled marbles or something.

[@awethebird]

Finally, an MJD video where stuff goes right

[@hw_driver5988]

Kinda

[@bolindow176]

THAT was a walk down memory lane. I used 10.2 Jaguar for a few years on my iMac G3. Great os.

[@vitamins-and-iron]

great Os = cheerios?

[@sjgrall]

64 MB RAM with 6 GB HD was a minor revision to the first iBook in early 2000. Originals from late 1999 had 32 MB RAM, 3.2 GB HD.

[@robotomo4249]

There's something so special to me about the skeuomorphic era of Mac OS. Even though I've never used it, I get the feeling that it was very unique to use. It looked fantastic, had many modern and useful features and most importantly, it had that old "Appleness" to it that came from Steve Jobs and his team.

[@georgeh6856]

I loved the look of these iBooks. No other laptop looked similar before or since (except maybe rip-offs at the time). Sure, they looked sort of like toys, but what a great thing as an adult to walk around with a toy that was useful. The only time I ever saw these in person was in a computer lab at the company where I worked. I did not work on that company's project which was using iBooks, so I did not touch them so as not to disrupt their automated testing on them.

[@christopherwilliams9418]

I wish Apple had kept this design language around a little while longer before moving to the completely sterile look they ended up transitioning into. I do still enjoy the white iBooks and MacBooks and even some of the early metal chassis designs but once they transitioned their lineup to "everything aluminum all of the time" it just didn't feel special anymore. It's a shame they took the criticisms of the look so hard. I first met these iBooks in my elementary school's computer lab and immediately fell in love. Spent all my life wanting one of my own. Now I have several, my favorite being my Indigo one that I've maxed the RAM on, upgraded to an SSD and swapped the CD drive out for a much faster DVD drive than would have come even in the models that came with DVD drives... Sadly no drive cover since the way the CD drive and DVD drive covers connect to the drives themselves are different, but I did hang onto my old CD drive cover. Someday I'll find a solution for that. :P

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Viewers: "Say the thing, Michael." Michael MJD: *sigh* "'Everything goes wrong.'" Viewers: "YAY!"

[@DccToon]

i read viewers as "vsauce" and got very confused

[@vitamins-and-iron]

@@DccToonor did you?

[@DccToon]

@@vitamins-and-iron *vsauce music plays*

[@rafaelcaus3762]

For this channel "but everything goes wrong" is not a spoiler. It's a teaser! Must watch!

[@im_clippy]

Even though I was born in the 2000s and only have memories of Windows XP onwards, I find it very fun to see this kind of older technology and how it behaves nowadays, and I have even more fun watching everything go wrong hahahahahahahaha. Hello from Brazil

[@gravity9271]

That disc drive be dropping a sick beat at 17:25

[@KingNikolai]

i live for these "but everything goes wrong" videos

[@lukeoakes3293]

I don't know what it is, but there's just something so soothing about seeing a new MJD upload

[@l0ud5p34k4]

5:43 Could not agree more, I learned to solder after ripping the power switch socket off my iBook G4 in university.

[@appleinfl]

I had the exact same one in 2nd grade running 9.1. Clamshells and iMac G4s are probably some of my favorite Macs. So glad I grabbed one in every color when they were still affordable. My two key lime models are gonna pay for my retirement if they keep going up at their current rate.

[@bassboostedmoonchao]

AH yes. Michael devolves further into madness while trying to keep up a pleasant smile. Love your videos dude

[@drygnfyre]

Jaguar was the first truly usable release of macOS 10. Cheetah was effectively another beta, Puma was still mainly for early adopters. Jaguar marked the point where the code had matured and there was finally some good software to run. This also marked the point where Apple killed off the classic macOS (v9) for good, so I think they also felt the same about Jaguar.

[@isoceptic]

Ah yes, the famous Max OS X 10.1 Jagwire.

[@Eyetrauma]

"Guilty Spark ...he's there." Michael's comin' for you, HiddenXperia

[@BilisNegra]

So, this is modern mac OS already, not like 9 and earlier that are "Classic Mac OS", right? Well, that was 23 years ago (almost 22 for this Jaguar version), and we are now nearly twice as old... Life is short to be sure 😰

[@shawnstillman736]

Love iChat just showing the AIM guy.

[@Peacewalker26]

I really love the 2000s aesthetic and I love how basically everything you cover is like that in the sense it’s not super old but also not super modern the perfect crossroad.

[@MikeStavola]

I bought a copy of the OSX family pack, back in the day. Used it at a repair shop/pawn shop, and installed it into dozens of systems.

[@Dragonsrule89]

Installing operating systems on an old mac and it doesn't go to plan? Druaga1 would be proud

[@Xurikyo]

don't cry because it's over, smile because he toked :')

[@mal0gen]

@@Xurikyo progen

[@Javapuppy1]

I swear, I have never in my life I ever seen him install OS that quick, there’s usually something that has to go wrong whenever he’s doing something like this, like something he’s missing or it doesn’t wanna cooperate

[@Davu2005]

wake up babe mjd posted! 🕺

[@emmymalware]

yay a new mjd video

[@MichaelChin1994]

6:00 IIRC, it's best practice to hold down the power button after removing a battery so that the capacitors also discharge

[@SnackyPaper]

best video youve made in a while keep up the good work

[@mrgrumpy888]

5:43 I still stand by that statement😅

[@Cheesebuger15]

Idk how this guy makes videos about computers interesting to me.

[@ExpectinSomeADifferentAlias]

9:14 "i thought this was going to start turning into a 'but everything went wrong' video" *glances at title* hmm seems to be a little foreshadowing

[@monkeyman767]

God, this has just made me realise how old I am, I remember installing 10.2 when it was brand new. Hell I remember excitedly installing the Beta of OSX

[@GoodGirlPeruru]

That... 5 device maximum is genuinely hilarious, because for it to be effective, they have to hope someone with enough devices buys this pack, actually reads the terms and conditions in box, and gets scared enough into buying another copy- totally probably all of about 3 people *ever.* Wild.

[@GYTCommnts]

I know you may changed it because of viewing behaviors, but I really miss those small time lapses and progress bars going with the cool music on the background...

[@Apartment2P]

Hey Michael! Always enjoy your content man! Love the whole look of this computer, definitely up there w/ the Monorail as one of my faves you've showcased! I do some art and music stuff in my spare time and the sound of the disk drive at 18:09 is really cool. Would you mind if I used that in a project I'm working on?

[@MichaelMJD]

Sure, feel free to!

[@Apartment2P]

Sweet, thank ya!

[@handsoffmymacaroni102]

Those pfps are so cool! Wish apple would return to that style.

[@zafilerusse]

Nice! Thanks for the video

[@CobraKiss-lx5mw]

Gonna name my kid Max OS 10.1

[@TatsuZZmage]

I remember that drives from that era could just not like burnable cds and mess up trying to read em. Also i bet a g4 upgrade existed at one point. haha

[@mrthp]

i wish they would remake that clamshell ibook with apple sillicon a nice m1 m2 or m3 would be awesome in that

[@christopherwilliams9418]

A few years ago there was a guy putting intel MacBook guts in them. I wanted one bad but could never afford it, lol.

[@Freakishink292]

I wonder when you'll revisit the i-opener...

[@JeffTiberend]

I don't have a new Mac. I have an old Mac Pro Dual G5 Tower. I like the System Preferences done like this. It would the one thing I would hate with using a newer Mac and MacOS. I just don't get why they had to make the new System Preferences to look like an iOS app. Vent over.

[@Cameront9]

Gotta laugh at the “Family pack” since there is absolutely nothing preventing you from installing it on as many machines as you want.

[@levinotjeans]

On Action Retro he said if you get one and do any mod/upgrade (besides ram) you end up buying at least 4 because you are going to do break something the first time you take it apart. I know I sheared the trackpad cable off one . . .

[@stpworld]

I have an ibook converted into a touch screen by gemini its got speech software and some custom software on it to .

[@fred30w]

The reason Halo fails to launch at all here is because the original iBook clamshells only had an ATI Rage Mobility. Apple never included a driver, at least in Mac OS X, with OpenGL acceleration for the non 128 series of Rage cards. At minimum you need an iBook clamshell with Firewire as they include a Rage Mobility 128 to at least run Halo, albeit a lot of the geometry and textures fail to render properly.

[@arthurmartinsgoncalves6468]

17:24 No one: Michael: **casually fxxks the camera**

[@modables]

cringe

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

I have had not interest in anything Apple since I used the classic mac, BUT love watching these types of vids!

[@TheOriginalCollectorA1303]

Everything goes wrong? That’s just a normal experience, I’ve definitely spent way too much time on just trying different OS versions on my PowerBook G4. Haven’t used 10.2 yet though, that setup looks awesome!

[@SenileOtaku]

There's a couple of G3/G4 iBooks for sale dirt cheap at the completely opposite corner of the county (on Craigslist), but I never have occasion to head over that way anymore. But if I bought one (or two) of them, I'd probably run System 8 on them rather than MacOS 10.x. Mainly because that's the newest version we tested on when I worked at a multimedia software company.

[@fra4455]

Great video✌

[@theduckfu]

i remember installing 10.4 on a friend's clamshell probably like 15 years ago, I put 10.4 on everything I could back then even iMacs. I think I would just boot up with an external firewire drive and just clone drives using carbon copy cloner. Not even bother with installing. The drive. I remember maxing out the ram and I think I upgraded the drive to a 120gb hd. SSD stuff either wasn't around or not cheap back then. Not a fun mac to take apart but I got 10.4 running good. I rarely install mac os's from original discs I have used usb thumb drives in some installs but mostly just stick to cloning drives much easier.

[@pcpanikMusik]

Sometimes I wish those times from earlier OS X Versions and the great Apple design back. Leopard was my favourite. And of course the „Welcome“ video after installation. Really missing that. Made you feel „associated“, if you know what I mean.

[@SkinCareLuver]

I miss disc drives being on Macs. I also don't remember Mac OS costing that much back when The Wiz was open.

[@RandomUser-uv8jr]

"just to play it safe *_for once_* "

[@MotownBatman]

I thought SorbetLeopard was supposed to be the Ultimate Install?

[@sjgrall]

Doesn’t support something that new

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

My iBook G3 Snow has Mac OS X 10.2 and Mac OS 9.2.2 installed

[@Davide0033]

damn, halo combat evolved remembered me on how much fun i had playing it way too late i played it last year on a ps4 controller and it was better than i could think, took me three days but they were fun days

[@sjgrall]

I haven’t watched the entire video yet, but I’m wondering given the mishaps if you’re missing the 4.1.7 firmware upgrade, which was supposedly a prerequisite for Mac OS X IIRC. Btw, these have no clock battery; they relied on a special capacitor plus the system’s main battery, which I’m betting is dead at this point.

[@ristopoho824]

My workplace is moving and throwing out a lot of crap. Also some not crap things. So. I got my first apple product. Mac mini. A delightful little device. Haven't gotten around to installing anything on it yet. OS X seems like a fun thing to play around with. Will see. A whole different ecosystem to fiddle around with. Also. It looks good on my desk. It just looks good. I don't really get that feeling from other Apple products but this thing is just so attractive. Hm. A sticker with Retroarch logo over the Apple one and it'd make for a dang nice emubox. Just. As long as it's some excuse to keep it on my desk.

[@鿗]

cool video man

[@christopherwilliams9418]

I had no idea Apple expected you to use the upgrade discs on a limited number of machines. How did that even operate, was there some kind of DRM or did it just operate on the "trust me bro" model? I've re-installed using the same discs so many times... I can definitely see people pooling money together and throwing "upgrade parties" with how expensive it was... XD

[@samuel-wankenobi]

It was just a trust me bro thing

[@surfingpikachuYT]

when michael pulled out the copy of halo i immedately thought of the video from mattkc that he tried to run halo on a imac g3

[@AlyxxTheRat]

Slight correction to the video: The PC port of Halo was actually done by Gearbox Software and not Microsoft. Microsoft was actually purely a publisher on Halo, the main game was made by Bungie. I'm not sure who did the Mac port but I suspect Aspyr.

[@stevef6392]

Halo requires a 698 MHz CPU? Well that's oddly specific isn't it.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

but its nice.

[@kathrynradonich3982]

Panther was the first really usable version of OSX for me. Sure classic helped a lot with the earlier releases but we're always super slow and bloated in my experience especially 10.0 and 10.1. Jaguar wasn't terrible but I missed a few things that really helped the OSX experience like spotlight. Pretty sure my xserver G4 is running server 10.3.9 haven't powered it up in a while though.

[@WindowsSurfaceOffical]

We haven't seen many things in a while on this channel the one example is The common example is Compaq portable and many other machines

[@vatsaljain1435]

Pls try to install mac os on a powerbook duo! Love your videos!

[@stephensalex]

The eject issue is not anything to do with your laptop. I have reinstalled Mac OS X on so many different machines, and these old toilet seat iBooks always do that if you set the Startup Disk from Control Panels (which is all the installer does, just quietly behind the scenes). Holding C on boot also works. Last absolutely "kitchen sink" resort, you can boot to Open Firmware and type "boot cd:,\\:tbxi" and hit Return. It's an issue in software that's actually caused by a combination of some revisions of the older iBook firmware and certain versions of the Mac OS ROM "firmware in a file" in the OS 9 system folder. Basically, the right enabler and the right firmware and boom you have a bug. Source, I am a systems engineer and a vintage computer enthusiast with far too much free time on my hands.

[@DJWIK]

“I was looking at my software shelf the other day” 😂😂😂

[@chainefermee109]

wait u need a cd? u dont have to go on settings and update it like on iPhone?(call me new gen but it's a genuine question)

[@mortenborg]

One of my favorite Mac's ever, it's so cute! Wish Apple would be bolder again, so sick of all the boring aluminium.

[@RetroGamerOG_]

I remember buying a Mac with Mac OS X in it and it literally refused to start

[@MrCybalusion]

[°↑°] finder, so cool. Great video.

[@MexicaliBenchmark]

Clean the cd-rom drive laser with alcohol and a q-tip

[@andrewsadach3194]

You have to change your boot order. The HDD is at the top of the boot order.

[@joesaiditstrue]

2:16 isn't that the same logo for AIM?

[@GoldenMonkeGTVR]

I ASKED FOR ANOTHER "BUT EVERYTHING WENT WRONG" VIDEO ON THE PREVIOUS VIDEO AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW? NOW THERE IS ANOTHER "BUT EVERYTHING WENT WRONG" VIDEO!!!

[@wctcasc]

Have you stopped sponsoring Linode?

[@atarixle]

My Clamshell boots via Fire Wire perfectly into 10.4.11 Tiger, which actually is installed on a DualUSB iBook G3 (translucent, white colored from the inside). BUT I do not get it installed on the internal HDD in the Clamshell. Althru the HDD in the Clamshell is not write protected, it seems to be from the outside via Fire Wire. I also installed Tiger using the iBook G3 on an iMac, which itself officially supports 10.3 only (I guess).

[@GreenMan893x]

I love Free Geek Twin Cities! I wish there was one in Rochester!

[@LatiLag]

It's very weird that Apple don't integrate different colors for elements of the early Aqua interface, over classic blue and graphite. In the presentation of Mac Os X Sp3, in 2000, there were some renders of Aqua in different color schemes..

[@RageMastaX]

Why does the video say it's from 8 months ago even though it's 2024 of October 31st?

[@iamdigitalman2]

On my iBook firewire clamshell there is only 1. So the originals had 2.Interesting. Mactracker says 1 for this model. I will have to contact the developer Ian.

[@Sodium-e1x]

I love your channel

[@gamestechvideos]

Was it as hard to replace the hard drive as it is on modern Apple devices?

[@THE-ONE-NL]

nice ibook. looked in my ram draw. stil have two of them 512 modules for the ibook ^^

[@4verageYTuser]

I bought a snow g3 and im planning on doing that. Oh boy im screwed

[@Nolanynew]

Hmm I think there is a problem *disc drive turns into a tractor cutely*

[@brianbuddy2ACP]

Wait. I think Michael is wrong on the latest version of OSX supported on this model. I was told that it can run Tiger, AKA V. 10.4. But, who's wrong, me, or Michael?

[@OctavioGaitan]

Install media for 10.0-10.2 can be quite finicky. The lowest version of the MacOS X I currently own on retail is 10.3 Panther and it never ejects when I boot into the first disc. After installing Panther then that's when I install macOS 10.4 Tiger which is my favorite version of the macOS X, which is the best version to run on a G3 Macs.

[@joshj88]

I tried using an Iomega Zip 250 IDE as a boot device connected to an ide to FireWire adapter and it kept ejecting after it loaded the rom file on my Mac mini. So weird. I can read and write files just fine otherwise. Wonders if I need an older Iomega tools to write a proper boot driver. I just used Mac OS 10.4 to format using APM and install OS 9 drivers. I haven’t tried drive setup 1.9 yet tho.