Luckily, this MacOnLinux Download Page has a link to a ROM Updater on Apple's site that includes a ROM file for a Mac from the 8.5 era, so I didn't have to use an extracting app to get the ROM from my old 7200. Sadly, I skipped 9.0.4, and ShapeShifter doesn't support 9.1 for which I have a system CD, nor does it support PCI-based Macs like my old G4. Aforementioned XLR8YourMac page contains a link to a MacOS 9.0.4 updater that contains the "Mac OS ROM" file, that you can extract by using TomeViewer on any Classic-capable Mac. Of course, like most emulators, it needs a ROM. It even comes with a little X11 GUI that lets you set up the config file easily. On XLR8YourMac's Classic on Intel Macs page, you can find a recent experimental snapshot of SheepShaver for Intel Macs. The neat part about this is that it's been ported to Intel and thus runs on all currently selling Macs. Sheep Shaver is a PowerPC Mac emulator that originally started out on BeOS, but later got ported to Linux and Darwin as well. you need to know about the Mac keyboardĭuring a search of the HyperCard Maling List archives, I just stumbled across Sheep Shaver. When I took a peek at Apple System Profiler, the hardware it reported itself running on was a Power Mac 9500 series, with a G4 processor, running at 100MHz.Less work through Xcode and shell scripts Looks pretty stable, though as noted before, it’s not the swiftest. This puzzled me for a bit, before I remembered that on Mac OS, every mounted drive had its own Desktop Folder and everything in those folders from all mounted drives showed up on the desktop.ĥ. If you have an OS 9 Desktop Folder on your Intel Mac’s drive, SheepShaver will pick up on it while mounting the Unix drive and show whatever is in there on your Mac OS 9 desktop as generic icons. Nothing I’ve done up to this point makes either folder (even renamed!) visible on the Unix drive.Ĥ. Specifically, it doesn’t show the Mac OS 9 “Applications (Mac OS 9)” or the “System Folder” folders, which is quite bizarre. There’s some weirdness with the Unix drive, where it won’t show some folders. You can copy things from the Unix drive into the Mac OS 9 environment and vice-versa.ģ. The OS X hard drive shows up on the Mac OS 9 desktop as a drive called “Unix”. This isn’t like Classic, where OS 9 and OS X applications co-existed on the screen. Here’s the settings I’m using with SheepShaver:įor Ethernet, using slirp will let you share OS X’s network connection.ġ. That’s as far as SheepShaver supported, so I shutdown OS 9 and started customizing the settings.
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After that, I applied the Mac OS 9.0.4 update normally. I selected that and installed OS 9 onto it. Within SheepShaver’s window, the disk image showed up mounted like a normal hard drive. I built a one gig-sized disk image, set that as my boot volume, set my ROM’s location, then had SheepShaver boot off of my OS 9 CD by selecting “Boot From CD-ROM” on the Volumes tab in SheepShaverGUI and hitting the Start button.įrom that point, it was like a normal installation of Mac OS 9. I started off by launching the SheepShaverGUI program, which is a graphical program used to configure SheepShaver’s settings as well as make the disk images that SheepShaver uses to boot off of. I needed a Mac OS 9 CD (9.0, not 9.1 or 9.2.x.), a copy of a compatible Mac OS ROM (I used MacOS ROM 1.6 from MacOS ROM Update 1.0 use TomeViewer on a PPC Mac to extract the ROM from the installer,) sufficient space on my hard drive and a copy of SheepShaver (available from. In terms of speed and screen redraw, it’s not that swift but it should be fine for a person who just needs to run one or two Mac OS applications. I can’t see the AppleTalk zones of my workplace though, though, so all printing looks like it’ll need to be set up via LPR. I can get out to the internet via ethernet or my workplace’s wireless network, so it looks like TCP is working fine. I’ve gotten Mac OS 9.0.4 up and working on an Intel Mac, running off of SheepShaver.
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