Removing SheepShaver's nvram file located atĭownload the latest Universal Binary Build of SheepShaver: SheepShaver while holding down Shift to disable MacOS extensions and/or The Font Manager Update 1.0, or QuickTime 4.1.2 (see below), try starting If you have any problems installing the MacOS 8.6 Update, Carbon Lib 1.6, You will need a MacOS 8.5 CD from which to extract the Mac OS ROM. I have used following steps to install MacOS 8.6 on SheepShaver on MacOSġ0.6, 10.7, and 10.9 (Intel). Tags APFS Apple AppleScript Apple silicon backup Big Sur Blake bug Catalina Consolation Console diagnosis Disk Utility Doré El Capitan extended attributes Finder firmware Gatekeeper Gérôme HFS+ High Sierra history of painting iCloud Impressionism iOS landscape LockRattler log logs M1 Mac Mac history macOS macOS 10.12 macOS 10.13 macOS 10.14 macOS 10.SheepShaver on MacOS X SheepShaver on MacOS X However, I have found it rewarding to teach myself all this and now I have all my favorite Mac games and apps from the mid 80s to late 90s (including CD-ROM games) working in fully self contained macOS apps. There is a learning curve to all this, so it is for the enthusiast rather than people who want a quick dabble with an old Mac game or two. Lastly, I would like to point out that Mini vMac is even more stable and configurable than SheepShaver (for anything up to Macintosh II emulation) and it can likewise be configured to run in self-contained app bundles. I use it extensively and can copy and run my classic Mac apps between four different Macs running Mojave and Catalina. It has almost everything I need apart from a way to adjust the overall speed of the emulation.įurther, you can create SheepShaver app bundles (functioning in a similar way to the Boxer DOS emulator) and a forum contributor has even developed an entirely self contained SheepShaver app which can be duplicated and configured on a per-game/app basis. Collaborative patching work on SheepShaver in recent years has resulted in a very stable and mature platform for running most System 7-9 software. M.A.C.E looks promising, but it is clearly in the very early stages of development and lacks many features, such as full color and sound support. Thank you, Felix and friends: I have at last found an Electron app which is outstanding. Macintosh.js is properly signed and notarized for modern releases of macOS, and runs a treat in Catalina. I’m off now to find some suitably Stuffited copies of some of my old apps. Trying this with uncompressed apps wasn’t successful, though, because macintosh.js didn’t recognise their modernised and flattened format. If you’ve got compatible Classic apps available in Stuffit archives, you can transfer those across using a shared folder too. There are also several tryout versions of Adobe apps like Photoshop 3, Illustrator 5.5, and Streamline 3.1. It comes pre-loaded with a bunch of game demos, including Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D and Civilization II, but sadly not Crystal Quest. If you have the slightest interest in the history of the Mac, or in human interface design, it’s completely compelling. Although its author describes it as a “toy”, he does himself a disservice. It’s quite a hefty app at nearly 900 MB, but once started up runs a lot quicker than most Macs of the day. This allows you to run it in Windows and Linux too, if you really must. The purist might be ever so slightly offended to know that not only is this implemented almost entirely in JavaScript, but it runs in Electron. Do you fondly remember System 8, and the days of Mac Quadras with their Motorola 68K processors? Would you like one for free now? Felix Rieseberg, with the assistance of many others, has released his free macintosh.js, which is a virtualised Macintosh Quadra running System 8.
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