Sheep Shaver
...is an open source emulator for PPC Macintoshes. This has become of particular interest to be able to run several legacy Mac applications developed in the department. Notably FractalASM and SaddleDrop, developed under the aegis of John Hubbard.
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SheepShaver on the Mac
- FractalAsmAndSaddleDrop.zip:
Unzips to a folder named SheepShaver-2.3
containing a Universal Binary of Mac SheepShaver.
- Unzip to your home folder and run the SheepShaverGUI application to set it up.
- The SheepShaverGUI application produces a hidden configuration file,
.sheepshaver_prefs
in your home directory.
- See the sample below for a suggested configuration.
Sample Configuration File /Users/Guest/.sheepshaver_prefs
...to try it out with the
Guest
account under Leopard (which is deleted when you log out) or change
Guest
to your username.
disk /Users/Guest/SheepShaver-2.3/FractalAsmAndSaddleDrop
extfs /Users/Guest/
screen win/800/600
windowmodes 0
screenmodes 0
seriala <none>
serialb <none>
rom /Users/Guest/SheepShaver-2.3/Mac OS ROM Update 1.0/Mac OS ROM
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 268435456
frameskip 8
gfxaccel true
nocdrom false
nonet false
nosound true
nogui false
noclipconversion false
ignoresegv false
jit false
jit68k false
keyboardtype 5
ether slirp
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
ignoresegv false
idlewait true
Links
Comments
- Networking seems to be unstable, causing SheepShaver to either silently quit or lock up requiring a force quit. -- DickFurnas - 21 Jan 2008
- The zip file contains material copyright Apple Inc. -- DickFurnas - 21 Jan 2008
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DickFurnas - 18 Jan 2008