Emulating Mac OS 9 with Old World Rom on SheepShaver

[anabate3]

Do you have any idea how you can emulate Mac OS 9 with the Old World ROM on SheepShaver?

Because sometimes when you run it with the old world rom, you could recieve a bomb error.

[linuxlove]

Buy a Mac. SheepShaver is really too buggy to use and as far as I know, abandoned.

[anabate3]

Buy a Mac. SheepShaver is really too buggy to use and as far as I know, abandoned.

But, of course, I could really set the RAM to 256 or 512 MB.

[finkmacunix]

Buy a Mac. SheepShaver is really too buggy to use and as far as I know, abandoned.

Umm… No… It's still being worked on and, it is the most capable PPC emulator… I have Mac OS 8.6, 7.5.5, and 8.0 installed… I can even run Betas like 8.2 on it…

[linuxlove]

Umm… No… It's still being worked on and, it is the most capable PPC emulator… I have Mac OS 8.6, 7.5.5, and 8.0 installed… I can even run Betas like 8.2 on it…

Interesting. Last time I used SheepShaver, it hadn't been updated in several years.

[finkmacunix]

http://www.emaculation.com/

Here is the site where you can get the latest builds, along with guides on how to set it up…

[Le Master]

Do you have any idea how you can emulate Mac OS 9 with the Old World ROM on SheepShaver?

Because sometimes when you run it with the old world rom, you could recieve a bomb error.

Sorry, but why are you using an Old World Rom instead of a New World one?

[Gligar13]

Do you have any idea how you can emulate Mac OS 9 with the Old World ROM on SheepShaver?

Because sometimes when you run it with the old world rom, you could recieve a bomb error.

Sorry, but why are you using an Old World Rom instead of a New World one?

Old World ROMs can run System 7.

[STeeLhawk]

Fairly sure that OS 9 and Old World ROMs are incompatible. I think the only way would be to change the ROM file through the GUI.

That said, I'm not sure how well SheepShaver works as two different instances in two different folders, or in tandem with Basilisk? But you could give that a try if you really don't want to keep switching ROMs.

There's also some software called OS9 Helper that allows you to install OS 9.2 on some older Macs, which mightn't be what you're looking for but maybe there would be some way around it with a bit of work. Good luck!

[yksoft1]

replace Open Transport extensions with the ones from 8.x.
never install quicktime 3.x or 5/6.
Remove the Apple Audio Extension.
Remove all Extensions for unemulated hardware.
Keep away from all 68k apps that plays sound.

[Le Master]

Do you have any idea how you can emulate Mac OS 9 with the Old World ROM on SheepShaver?

Because sometimes when you run it with the old world rom, you could recieve a bomb error.

Sorry, but why are you using an Old World Rom instead of a New World one?

Old World ROMs can run System 7.

But he's wanting to emulate OS 9. So he should use Basilisk II and an Old World Rom for System 7 and SheepShaver and a New World Rom for OS 9.

[Gligar13]

Fairly sure that OS 9 and Old World ROMs are incompatible. I think the only way would be to change the ROM file through the GUI.

That said, I'm not sure how well SheepShaver works as two different instances in two different folders, or in tandem with Basilisk? But you could give that a try if you really don't want to keep switching ROMs.

There's also some software called OS9 Helper that allows you to install OS 9.2 on some older Macs, which mightn't be what you're looking for but maybe there would be some way around it with a bit of work. Good luck!

Not really, I used to run OS9 on my oldworld based G3.

As for Sheepshaver, it won't run anything newer then 9.0.4, so that's useless.

[noway]

I´m aware of the fact, that this thread is dead in the water for years, but still:

SheepShaver does run OS 9.0.4 with the OldWorld ROM or the NewWorld ROM on GNU/Linux, Windows or OSX hosts. Boot images made with the OldWorld ROM will also boot with NewWorld ROM, but not vice versa.
The reason for using the 4MB OldWorld file in favor of the 1MB NewWorld may be:
Compatibility, the Old World ROM seems to be slightly more reliable.
Lazyness, one setup can run OS9 and OS7.6 and reboot into the desired OS
Nostalgia, after all Christian Bauer developed SheepShaver with a PPC 9500/9600, 604e as blueprint.

[startmenus]

No, but OS 9 cannot find a sound output port under Oldworld ROM.