In the meantime, I'm going to go put my aluminum foil hat to make sure that Matt stops reading my mind. I’ve found the issue, I need an older ROM file, specifically Mac OS 9.0.4 or earlier. I am not familiar with SheepShaver, but check if it has any settings which define which Macintosh its trying to emulate. If you're up to the challenge and fun of setting up SheepShaver on a Snow Leopard Mac, be sure to take a look at both Matt's post and the E-Maculation website. Originally posted by Omega: The MAC your are trying to emulate is not supported by the version of MAC OS you are trying to run. While my client loved the solution I was able to provide to her, running Classic under Snow Leopard might be a better (and more fun!) solution for other Mac users. Matt pointed out a website, E-Maculation, that is dedicated to Mac emulators and how to get them up and running. SheepShaver crashes when booting Mac OS 8.1 You need the Old World Mac ROM listed separately (see the downloads). Builds of SheepShaver are available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. ![]() Using SheepShaver (along with the appropriate ROM image) it is possible to emulate a PowerPC Macintosh computer capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4. Neuburg does a good job of explaining the process of getting a ROM image, then using a Mac OS 9 installer CD to get SheepShaver up and running. SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator. However, you still need a copy of Mac OS and a PowerMac ROM image to use this program. That is, it enables you to run PowerPC Classic Mac OS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. This oddly-named application is a PowerPC Mac emulator, one of several that are available for both Mac and Windows. SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC Mac OS run-time environment. Yesterday I was looking at posts over on the venerable Mac website TidBITS, and blogger/author Matt Neuburg had written a post about SheepShaver. ![]() Being the forward-looking guy I am, I suggested that we just move the data from her old HyperCard stack over to Bento (simple), and then see if we could find a replacement for the other application into which her employees could re-enter the old data. I'm beginning to think that some other writers on the Mac beat are reading my mind.Ībout two weeks ago, one of my consulting clients was asking if there was any way that she'd be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard and still be able to run two legacy applications in Classic, one of which was HyperCard.
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