We're looking into it. Hopefully there's a fix. I do suggest that you all upgrade to OSX, though.

Do you know that registration of LimeWire Pro includes the possibility to download PRO versions of installers for other systems? This means that you can get the OSX version when registering the Mac OS9 version.

The private download page you receive after the payment gives access to all versions of installers. So you can download LimeWire Pro for both OSX and OS9, or even for Windows or Linux if you also have a PC.

Sometime in a near future, we'll probably have also a Win64 version for IA64 PCs (but first Java must be certified on that new platform... which will be only stable with Java 1.5 final release). For now, only Java for Win32 is supported on Windows. I don't know if that version works correctly on 64-bit versions of Windows (through the WOW32 support layer), as there are critical compatibility issues with multithreading, native I/O or display, or with new possible return values in WOW32 (which may not support the whole Win32 API that may be needed to support Java). For us it is a bit too soon to support it, and most users of Win64 probably use it for mission-critical servers, on which Gnutella is not desirable.

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I know that Philippe, but in the scenario I suggested, there would be a big warning in the pro subscription page if you intend to use LW on an OS9 system. What I mean is that some users would feel screwed and I'd be on their side. LW will have to suspend os 9 updates on day or the other, when they feel the extra work supporting the aging 1.1.8 java will not be worthing it.

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Thank you sberlin for looking into the matter.
In the meantime I will download the free version & see if that works.

FYI: OS X is NOT an update or upgrade. It is a completely new & different OS system. Nothing like the old OS systems.

OK Apple has stopped since long to support for Java on Mac OS 9. Mac OS X is fully mature now, and most Mac OS 9 users that have the first PowerPC blue boxes should have no problem to upgrade, given the huge performance benefit and the decreased price of memory upgrades.
I just wonder if Apple has made a "light" version of Mac OS X which can be installed without the lots of supplementary stuffs.
What I don't understand is why Apple has not placed its port of Java on Mac OS 9 as an open-source project.
I know that porting the Java 2 platform, notably the exception handling and multithreading support is quite tricky on Mac OS 9 with its partial support for virtual memory, and its single flat memory map. However the open-sourcers could have ported a better multithreading engine on Mac OS 9, patched the 100% pure Java core classes to run in a degraded Java environment.
The main problem in Mac OS 9 is the slow virtual memory management (and absence of security caused by the flat memory model which looks more like Windows 3).
Aren't there replacement for Java 1.1.8 on Mac OS 9, for example in Apache or Mozilla hosted projects ? Is it completely impossible to support at least the Java 1.3.1 VM on Mac OS 9?

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Try using LimeWire 4.0.3, just released. Mac Classic connections should be fixed.

Sberlin, I downloaded & installed the free 4.0.2 version of LW & ran into the exact same probroblem. I opened up the err.txt file & got this message:

A nonfatal internal JIT (3.10.106(MRJ)) error 'chgTarg: Conditional' has occurred in :
'org/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpClient.executeMethod (Lorg/apache/commons/httpclient/HostConfiguration;Lorg/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpMethod;Lorg/apache/commons/httpclient/HttpStateI': Interpreting method.
Please e-mail this message along with reproducible sample to jit-bugs-ppc@itools.symantec.com

Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.showDialogs ForFirstVisibility(GUIMediator.java:342)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.access$000( GUIMediator.java:49)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator$1.run(GUIMe diator.java:325)
at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities.processRunna bleEvent(Compiled Code)
at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$RunnableTarg et.processEvent(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java)
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/limegroup/gnutella/settings/StartupSettings
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.TipOfTheDayMediator.con structDialog(TipOfTheDayMediator.java:392)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.TipOfTheDayMediator.<in it>(TipOfTheDayMediator.java:167)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.TipOfTheDayMediator.ins tance(TipOfTheDayMediator.java:177)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.closeStartu pDialogs(GUIMediator.java:355)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.showInterna lError(GUIMediator.java:1748)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Finalizer.shutdown(Comp iled Code)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.shutdown(GU IMediator.java:1017)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.close(GUIMe diator.java:1010)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.MainFrame$1.windowClosi ng(MainFrame.java:196)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.windowClosing(AWTEven tMulticaster.java)
at java.awt.Window.processWindowEvent(Window.java)
at javax.swing.JFrame.processWindowEvent(JFrame.java: 182)
at java.awt.Window.processEvent(Window.java)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Compiled Code)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java)


Appears to be some sort of java error which is over my head as I am not a comp geek. I was going to run DiskWarrior. Now it looks like I'll just have to sit back & wait for you guys to figure out a fix for us OS 9.x users if there is one.

Purchasing one of the OS CATs (Panther or Tiger is not an option for me at this time. That is why I appreciate all the developers who still work of products for us users still using the older OS systems.

Hi Bootylicious -- Try using 4.0.3. The error may still appear in the err.txt file, but it should connect fine. I cannot promise that Mac Classic support is going to continue far into the future -- it is increasingly hard to develop for the current operating systems and remain compatible with Mac Classic. Many other vendors, such as Adobe (and even Apple themselves) have dropped Classic support entirely.

ok but where do u dl 4.0.3? all i get is 4.0.2 ;__;

Go to limewire.com and download the software. Download.com may have the wrong version number, but what you download _will_ be LimeWire 4.0.3.