Can't install Mac OS 9 onto my Macbook Pro

Hi, I got my MacBook Pro about 3 weeks ago.
I bought this game that would run either on Mac OS 9 or in OSX Classic Mode.
So I checked the forum and internet on how to use my mac in Classic environment. I tried lots of stuff, and I happened to find old OS 9 Installation disk that my father used. I tried installing it on mac, and it keeps saying 'program is not supported on this system'.
I also tried booting in CD, but it wouldn't work too.
My MacBook Pro has Mac OS X 10.4.7 (I believe it's Tiger).
Can anyone tell me how to run my MacBook on classic environment?
thanks!

Hi, Kathryne -
No, unfortunately partitioning the hard drive will not change anything. It is not a matter of hard drive formatting, or space. It is that the Intel processor is much different than the previous Motorola processors used, and that Apple has not included any software in OSX to interface between Classic and the Intel processor.
Previously, all G5, G4, and G3 processors could use Classic under OSX; most G4 and all G3 processors could use OS 9 as a boot OS, but no G5 processor could.
Apple announced the end of support for OS 9 several years ago, about midway in the development of the G4 models. Support for OS 9 as a bootable OS continued for a while - all G4 tower models can boot to some version of OS 9 except for those with a firewire 800 port. With the advent of the G5 models OS 9 was relegated to use as Classic only; no G5 can use OS 9 as a boot OS. The next major generational change in Macs, the switch to using Intel processors, eliminated OS 9 and Classic completely as far as Apple is concerned.
Whether or not there will continue to be 3rd party development of emulators such as SheepShaver is up to software designers other than Apple.

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