This isn’t like Classic, where OS 9 and OS X applications co-existed on the screen. Here’s the settings I’m using with SheepShaver:įor Ethernet, using slirp will let you share OS X’s network connection.ġ. That’s as far as SheepShaver supported, so I shutdown OS 9 and started customizing the settings. After that, I applied the Mac OS 9.0.4 update normally. I selected that and installed OS 9 onto it. Within SheepShaver’s window, the disk image showed up mounted like a normal hard drive. I built a one gig-sized disk image, set that as my boot volume, set my ROM’s location, then had SheepShaver boot off of my OS 9 CD by selecting “Boot From CD-ROM” on the Volumes tab in SheepShaverGUI and hitting the Start button.įrom that point, it was like a normal installation of Mac OS 9. I started off by launching the SheepShaverGUI program, which is a graphical program used to configure SheepShaver’s settings as well as make the disk images that SheepShaver uses to boot off of. I needed a Mac OS 9 CD (9.0, not 9.1 or 9.2.x.), a copy of a compatible Mac OS ROM (I used MacOS ROM 1.6 from MacOS ROM Update 1.0 use TomeViewer on a PPC Mac to extract the ROM from the installer,) sufficient space on my hard drive and a copy of SheepShaver (available from. In terms of speed and screen redraw, it’s not that swift but it should be fine for a person who just needs to run one or two Mac OS applications. I can’t see the AppleTalk zones of my workplace though, though, so all printing looks like it’ll need to be set up via LPR. I can get out to the internet via ethernet or my workplace’s wireless network, so it looks like TCP is working fine. ![]() I’ve gotten Mac OS 9.0.4 up and working on an Intel Mac, running off of SheepShaver.
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