Mac OS 8 8.1/8.2
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.
Release notes
Last version to run on 68k CPUs. Introduced HFS+. Bundles Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac because Microsoft threatened to discontinue MS-Office for Mac if they didn't.
Installation instructions
Emulation notes: To run MacOS 8.1 we recommend Basilisk II, which emulates a Motorola 68K based Macintosh. To run PowerPC software, you can also use Sheep Shaver.
8.1 is the highest version that will run under Basilisk II.
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
- 1998
- Minimum CPU
- 68040 or PPC
- Minimum RAM
- 12MB
- Minimum free disk space
- 120MB
- User interface
- GUI
- Platform
- MacOS
- Download count
- 65 (13 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File Size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Apple Mac OS 8.1 (ISO) | 8.1 | English |   | 202.81MB | 12 |
| Apple Mac OS 8.1 [German] [iMac] (ISO) | 8.1 [iMac] | German | | 256.64MB | 0 |
| Apple Mac OS 8.1 [Japanese] (ISO) | 8.1 | Japanese | | 200.19MB | 1 |
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Mac OS 8.2 (''Snowman'' 8.2.D8) (ISO) | 8.2 (''Snowman'' 8.2.D8) Prerelease | English | | 46.9MB | 0 |