![]() ![]() It didn’t work for me – all I got was a black screen when I tried to start up SheepShaver. But you may want to emulate a PowerPC Mac because you don’t have access to an actual running computer of that era.Īlternatively, the firmware updater file included in the Mac OS 8.5 or 8.6 CD (in the System Folder) is supposed to be usable as a ROM image. If you have access to a PowerPC Mac from that late 1990s era, you could, presumably, make an image using the ROM Grabber utility. You need the ROM image in order to allow your emulated Mac to start the boot process – where standard Windows-style PCs have fairly simple ROM BIOSes, PowerPC Macs need access to a hunk of Apple-written (and Apple copyright) code before they start to load the operating system. In order to make it work, you need to download a copy appropriate for your hardware and operating system, have handy a copy of the Mac operating system (versions 7.5.2 through 9.0.4 – and not a copy that’s tied to a specific piece of hardware), and access to a Mac ROM image. SheepShaver is an open source project designed to emulate Power Mac hardware with versions for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, and more. So I thought it might be time to give SheepShaver another look. I recently bought a secondhand 12″ G4 PowerBook (more on that another time) it came with Mac OS X 10.4 installed, but I upgraded it to 10.5, thus nuking its Classic Mode capabilities. But now, if you’ve upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, your PowerPC Mac will also be Classic-less. At that time, if you had a PowerPC Mac, you could still run older software in Classic Mode if needed. While many of us no longer rely on old Classic mode software, Apple gives Classic mode even less support than at the time I wrote that article. ![]() While SheepShaver, promising emulation of Macs from the late 1990s, would seem a better solution than Basilisk – emulating Macs from the 1980s through early 1990s – I noted in that article: “I’ve been trying to make (SheepShaver) work. In it, I noted that the then-new Intel-powered Macs were unable to run older Mac software in called Classic Mode, but that there were at least a couple of ways to get around that, including Basilisk II, which emulates old 680×0 Macs, and SheepShaver, which emulates newer pre-OS X PowerPC Macs. Members Introduction.Early in 2006, I wrote an article for Low End Mac entitled VNC, Basilisk II, and SheepShaver: 3 Ways to Run Classic on an Intel Mac. If you just need to build something simple, it's WAY easier to use REALBasic though. Apparently, Apple started using C quite a bit more in later years of Classic Mac. Pascal was pretty dominant at first but most of the later documentation I've seen is all in C. It's still the most supported language to use for a low level application- especially one that uses the Mac OS Toolbox. But of course, Codewarrior doesn't even have a shell, although you can use the MPW shell from within CW.Īlso, although the language is the same, the way Apple used the C-language in its interfaces back in those days is quite weird lol. I have spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find out if you can with no luck lol (if anyone knows a trick for this please save me). You have to write really complicated Apple Events from scratch when you could in theory just pass a one line command to ToolServer. My only caveat with it is that it has this great shell that you can't use in any of your applications. However, if you want to run a command, you select the command's text and use Fn-Return (to use the 'Enter' key) to execute it. The only 5 minute stumble I came across was executing commands in the shell when I first looked at it. If you already know C++ and/or PASCAL it is basically self-explanatory. It's a really simple IDE, basically not much more than a code editor and compiler. There's not really much to "learn" in MPW lol. ![]()
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