Old Game not coming up in OS9

Hi Guys,
I wondered if you can help me with this one. I recently bought a coyp of the old X-wing game from the mid-90's. I know that it only plays in OS9 and I am currently running OS 10.4.9.
I know that I need to be in the Classic environment, so I loaded OS9 onto my LaCie external harddrive. When I click on the little Xwing logo that I copied to my external drive, the system does the typical "fade-to-black" like the game is going to start up. However, the game never starts. It just kind of sits there with a goof "ghost-like" image of my OSX desktop that just changes colors, but never gets to the game. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for the help!
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9) LaCie 160GB External Hard Drive, iLife '06

H, Nhojnik. X-Wing may require that your computer be set for a certain color depth and/or display resolution, and it may try to make the necessary hardware adjustments itself when you start it up. In OS 9, it can do that. In Classic mode within OS X, the game does not have access to any hardware adjustments: OS X retains absolute control of all hardware, and any Classic application that tries to access hardware controls will find the way barred against it.
If you can make the necessary adjustments yourself in OS X before opening X-Wing, perhaps the game will run. Give that a try, if you have some idea what the required settings might be. (For starters, you might try 256 colors and a resolution of 640 x 480, 800 x 600, or 1024 x 768.) If X-Wing won't run without being able to make the necessary hardware adjustments by itself, it's incompatible with Classic mode, and you won't be able to run it on your Mini.

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