![]() SheepShaver throws a CD error: “The CD-ROM driver file ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\cdenable.sys’ is missing”. You can name it whatever you want, such as “Mac OS 9.hfv”, and add the extension HFV. This creates a disk file of that size in the SheepShaver directory. Set the Size to 500 minimum or 1000 (1GB) for more storage.This allows you to access your Windows PC files from within the emulated OS. Once you set everything up, you can run SheepShaver.exe directly. If you try to run SheepShaverGUI.exe without the GTK Runtime files, it will error with “The program can’t start because is missing…” So install these files by running gtk2-runtime-2.24.10-ash.exe.The Mac checks to see if the ISO is read only and errors if it is not. Make the Apple MacOS 9.0.4.ISO file read only: Right mouse click > Properties > Read Only.Copy the Apple MacOS 9.0.4.ISO file to the SheepShaver directory.It creates a Apple Mac OS 9.0.4.ISO file. Use 7zip to unzip the Apple Mac OS 9.0.4.7z file.Rename the newworld86.rom to “Mac OS ROM” with no extension.Copy the newworld86.rom to the SheepShaver directory.SheepShaver comes with MAC OS 9 ROMs that don’t work.Download “ gtk2-runtime-2.24.10-ash.exe” – you will need these.Download “ Apple Mac OS 9.0.4 (ISO)” version 9.0 (and not 9.1 or 9.2).Download and unzip “ New World PPC ROM“.Download and install SheepShaver in a directory called “SheepShaver”.But patience and persistence are required.Alex walks you through this on YouTube. It will run most old Mac OS software just as well as you'd expect, therefore occasional crashes will occur. Be sure to run Disk First Aid fairly frequently in order to maintain your emulation boot drive. I personally recommend running Mac OS 8.6, my favorite version.įrom my testing, it works as well as the previous version 2.4. NOTE: SheepShaver is limited to running Mac OS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. More about SheepShaver can be found here: "For more information see the revised setup manual. "For a new setup, also download the SheepShaver folder. "If you have an existing SheepShaver setup, you can simply replace the application with the new application. "For Intel Mac, MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) through macOS 10.14 (Mojave) Notes about version 2.5 are available here: You are heartily invited to join the effort! Please note that I am pretty careless of the Windows version since I am not a Windows developer. The following platforms are currently supported: Linux (i386, ppc, x86_64), MacOS X (i386, ppc), Darwin, NetBSD 2.0, FreeBSD 5.3 and Windows for x86. Performance with the current CPU emulator using basic just-in-time (JIT) translation techniques is roughly 1/8-th of native speeds. On other systems, SheepShaver provides the first PowerPC G4 emulator, though without MMU, to enable the execution of Mac OS Classic. ![]() If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speeds (i.e., without any emulation involved). Networking: SheepShaver supports Internet and LAN networking via Ethernet and PPP with all Open Transport compatible MacOS applications.Native QuickDraw 2D acceleration for BitBlt and FillRect operations.Run-time depth switching from 1 bpp to current host depth settings.Color video display with support for run-time resolution switching. ![]()
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