Mac OS 8 8.0
Apple Mac OS 8 was another major overhaul of the OS from the earlier Mac OS 7. It added a new Platinum visual theme, a multi-threaded Finder, better virtual memory, and many customization options. 8.5 and later require a PPC CPU. It was followed up by Mac OS 9.
Installation instructions
Officially MacOS 8.0 and 8.1 required a minimum of a 68040 CPU. However it could be made to run on some 68030 based Macs.
Note: The foreign language versions that were here were corrupt and have been removed. If you have a foreign language version you would like to contribute, please see our contributions page.
Information
- Product type
- OS
- Vendor
- Apple
- Release date
- 1997
- Minimum CPU
- 68040 or PPC
- Minimum RAM
- 12MB
- Minimum free disk space
- 44MB
- User interface
- GUI
- Platform
- MacOS
- Download count
- 65 (30 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Apple Mac OS 8.0 (3.5 - 1.44mb) | 8.0 | English |   | 24.09MB | 9 |
 Apple Mac OS 8.0 (ISO) | 8.0 | English | | 160.89MB | 18 |
| Apple Mac OS 8.0 [British English] (ISO) | 8.0 | British English | | 156.88MB | 1 |
| Apple Mac OS 8.0 [French] (ISO) | 8.0 | French | | 170.61MB | 1 |
| Apple Mac OS 8.0 [German] (ISO) | 8.0 | German | | 156.73MB | 0 |
| Apple Mac OS 8.0 [Japanese] (ISO) | 8.0 | Japanese | | 180.9MB | 1 |