It's kinda weird that PPC Macs can run 22 year-old apps while the Intel Macs are limited to 5 years, but that's progress I guess. For whatever reason, Apple decided to kill the Classic mode on Intel-based Macs. MacOS 9 was abandoned in favor of of the Unix-ish NextStep/Openstep based Mac OS X. Like previous version, it lacks true protected memory or pre-emptive multitasking. Only problem is a PPC-based Mac is a requirement. Mac OS 9.x, based on Mac OS 8 was the final product based on the classic MacOS architecture. However, I would strongly recommend you stick with Apple's Classic mode, as it has much better compatibility, and integrates (almost) seamlessly with OS X. If the System and Applications folders of a non-bootable version of Classic were placed in a disc image and used in a PowerMac emulator, would the image be able to successfully boot OS 9 on the emulator?
However, I recall that Mac OS Classic supposedly can be copied entirely to another hard drive by copying the System and Applications folders. Ever since 2003, Apple changed the firmware on their PowerPC machines so that they would no longer be able to boot the included Mac OS 9.2.2 naively.
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