Mac OS 8 8.5/8.6/8.7

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

Mac OS 8.5 and later require a PowerPC based Macintosh. This version drops support for all m68k CPU based Macintosh computers.

Emulation notes: To run MacOS 8.5 on newer hardware, we recommend the SheepShaver emulator, which emulates a PowerPC Macintosh.

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.

Product type
OS
Vendor
Apple
Release date
1998
Minimum CPU
PPC
Minimum RAM
16MB
Minimum free disk space
150MB
User interface
GUI
Platform
MacOS
Download count
65 (13 for release)

Downloads

Download nameVersionLanguageArchitectureFile sizeDownloads
 Apple Mac OS 8.5 (ISO)8.5English287.35MB11
 Apple Mac OS 8.5 [German] (alt) (ISO)8.5 (alt)German321.18MB0
 Apple Mac OS 8.5 [Spanish] (ISO)8.5Spanish313.08MB0
 Apple Mac OS 8.5.1 [German] [PowerMac G3] (ISO)8.5.1 [PowerMac G3]German364.38MB0
 Apple Mac OS 8.5.1 [PowerMac G3 (BW)] (ISO)8.5.1 [PowerMac G3 (BW)]English54.54MB2
 Apple Mac OS 8.5.1 [Simpl. Chinese] [PowerMac G3] (ISO)8.5.1 [PowerMac G3]Simpl. Chinese398.78MB0
 Apple Mac OS 8.6 (''Horatio'' 8.6.A3C4 Update A)8.6 (''Horatio'' 8.6.A3C4 Update A) PrereleaseEnglish33.27MB3
 Apple Mac OS 8.6 (ISO)8.6English121.6MB6

 Apple Mac OS 8.7 (''Sarah'' 8.7.A6C2 A) (HD Image Mac BIN)8.7 (''Sarah'' 8.7.A6C2 A) PrereleaseEnglish153MB0