SheepShaver
Damien found SheepShaver last February, and at the time this PowerPC emulation environment (great for running Classic on Intel Macs) had 'experimental' attached to its explanation. While I don't know if it can be referred to as a solid powerhouse environment even still, it seems to have come quite a ways since February; up to version 2.3, to be exact. The latest version has support for up to 1 GB of memory, many bug and crash fixes, clipboard updates, performance enhancements and more.While it still might not be pretty, SheepShaver is one of the few, if only, methods I've heard of for running Classic on an Intel Mac.
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Damien found SheepShaver last February, and at the time this PowerPC emulation environment (great for running Classic on Intel Macs) had...
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Yeah, Sheepshaver goes waaaaaaay back to the days when BeOS would run on Macs. It was a virtual machine in those days though. I remember getting BeOS running on my old 7500 and wondering why I'd bothered. :)
June 06 2006 at 11:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf it runs HyperCard on my new MacBook then I'm a happy camper!
June 06 2006 at 8:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf I remember correctly, SheepShaver itself is nothing new. I think it was an old BeOS app for running Mac OS programs, or maybe the other way around.
June 06 2006 at 6:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt's far from pretty. It was version 2.3 then (a developmental version of 2.3, but still 2.3), so it's not like it has made several version numbers' worth of strides. It still crashes a lot, and it can still do nasty things to your disk if you use the default setting of "extfs /", which shares your root partition into OS 8/9 - bad things happen then, like the disk being made invisible. Sound is also broken in the current build, at least on my system. Sad, as I just want to run 3 in Three.
Still, it does *mostly* work (if has the basics of PowerPC emulation down - I consider that the hardest part), and given some time and attention (and someone to design a decent GUI!) it could shape up nicely.
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