I don’t personally have anything that requires me to use OS 9 anymore. However, I’ve got about 8 or 9 “edutainment” titles that my 6 and 4 year olds use and I think only one or two of them works in Classic. This is disappointing and a major pain because either my wife or I have to restart in 9 to let the kids use the computer. Is it just me, or is Classic just fickle overall? What’s your experience? Is there anything I can do to help the situation? I’m about ready to find a used iMac just for the kids.

One thing you might try is tweaking the version of 9 that you use for Classic. On my G4 I have a 9.2.2 install on one HD and a 9.1 install on the other. I use the 9.2.2 install for most uses of Classic, but for some games and such they will only launch if I use Classic with 9.1.

One unresolved issue with this setup is that I can’t get 9.1 to launch as Classic from my regular user account, I have to log into Root to use it.

Hope that helps.