Great to see sheepshaver still in the news, but wake me up when it can boot the last revision of the classic OS. This application just sounds like a drag and drop way of doing something that people have done for eons. The windows users have a majority I’d say of falling somewhere inbetween. Those that are very competent and those that are totally incompetent (in computer literacy atleast). This program just sounds like a prepackaged ss + os 9 for mactards unable to configure their system from a unix background.Īpologies for the use of ‘mactard’ (I do own two macs myself) But mac users are usually in one of two groups (and I realise I probably fall into one of those) I have a ppc g4 cube so if I wanted os9 that badly I’d run it natively… instead it runs leopard server headless hehe I’ve only been running sheepshaver on non mac intel linux computers recently but its been running 9.0.4 for ages now… cant they update it to 9.2.2 ? I’d be happy to fiddle with it more after that…. Its nice to see the other platform coders finally catching up with the past…. Were do you think this Rosetta/JIT (Just In Time) architecture emulation coding idea became popular?, thats right, the Amiga/Emu coders such as the shape shifter,UAE,etc… At a meeting of Amiga freaks someone called him a “SheepShaver” and we liked this name.” What does the name “SheepShaver” mean? Marc Hellwig said “the second coder involved in SheepShaver, wrote a Mac Emulator for the Amiga called ShapeShifter (out of the C64 game archon). It looks like Mac OS may be coming to Intel, one way or another.Īre there plans to develop SheepShaver for other PowerPC OS’s? Marc Hellwig (one of SheepShaver’s coders) said “Perhaps LinuxPPC (not for sure … a matter of free time).” It also seems similar to Windows95 running on VirtualPC running on the Mac OS. SheepShaver just uses your old installation of MacOS on your Harddisk.” It runs with any version of Mac OS 7.5.2 and greater.Īre there plans to develop SheepShaver for Intel x86 and/or Windows that includes a Mac hardware emulator? The makers said “if we find a fast PPC Emulator for Intel, it should be possible to run all MacOS apps with BeOS Intel.” Their method of running the Mac OS seems very similar to Apple’s method of running the Mac OS (blue box) on Mach/OpenStep in Rhapsody. What you see at the screenshots is the real MacOS 8. But the creators of SheepShaver say it is not an emulator of the Mac OS! I found this out when I asked the makers of SheepShaver the question “Do the makers of SheepSaver have a license from Apple giving them the right to make SheepSaver look exactly like Mac OS 8?” The makers answered by saying that “SheepShaver forces MacOS to run as a thread of BeOS. However they say that SheepShaver is a Mac OS emulator. You people dont know your history very well, or like giving credit were its due….Ī few web sites have news about SheepShaver Mac OS Runtime Environment for BeOS which lets the BeOS run Mac applications.

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