I used the 64bit build found here, and it works fine on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.Of course, you’ll also need a copy of MacOS 9.0.4. You can build it yourself, or grab a binary binaries for Windows and Mac OS X are easy to get, but for Ubuntu, you’ll have to try a little harder. Obviously, you’ll need SheepShaver. Even though SheepShaver can run earlier versions, I’m focussing on MacOS 9.0.4.You’ll need a few things before you can get going. I grabbed one of these, and got going. As of late, development has been focussed on Windows and Mac OS X, but pre-built Debian packages have appeared for 64bit and 32bit Ubuntu installations too.Again, I’m lucky in that I have two of these, so I didn’t have to jump through a lot of hoops. Of course, there’s always the option of going the way of the pirate, but this is most likely illegal in your country of residence.The third thing you’ll need is a little trickier to come by: you’re going to need the ROM image of a new world Mac, like a PowerMac G4. Believe it or not, genuine and new copies of MacOS 9 can still be found in online stores today, but even if you can’t find one online, your local Apple retailer might still have a few copies lying around (at least, that’s how I got two free copies).
![]() ![]() 9 Emulator For Os X Mac OS X Are![]() I know from experience that this operating system requires very little hard drive space, so I went with 2GB. The steps to set up this environment will look remarkably familiar to anyone with experience in running virtual machines.First, we need to create an image file to act as a hard drive for MacOS 9. Now you can run SheepShaver without root privileges.After launching SheepShaver (I simply use a terminal to execute sudo SheepShaver), you’ll be confronted with the settings window which also happens to act as the launcher for your MacOS 9 environment. This directory will be mounted as a drive inside the virtual environment, and since SheepShaver runs as root, it will have full read/write access to this directory and all subdirectories. It is important to set the “UNIX root” field to a safe directory, like your home directory or a specially created share directory. Since you first need to install MacOS 9, insert your MacOS 9.0.4 disk, enable the CD-ROM driver, and set the “Boot from” drop-down to “CD-ROM”. Mac madden 2002 gamecube emulatorI allocated 256MB of RAM to the virtual machine, which is more than enough for MacOS 9. In the serial/network tabs, be sure to set the Ethernet interface drop-down to slirp (we’ll set up networking within MacOS 9 later), and I guess memory/misc is pretty much self-explanatory. I didn’t change anything in the keyboard/mouse tab, since it all seems to work just fine with the default settings. The installation routine is fairly straightforward. Once this is done, you’ll be running MacOS 9 as a live CD you can proceed to install from there. I didn’t touch the JIT compiler tab at all.Now you can press “Start” to launch the virtual machine, and if all goes correctly, you’ll be asked to initialise the hard drive image you made. ICab is a decent enough browser though, but it won’t blow your socks off or anything on MacOS 9.I’ve made a short video showing SheepShaver in action (4.7MB, Ogg Theora).Now you can play around with MacOS 9. I was really looking forward to trying out the new Classilla browser, but sadly, I get a very weird memory error when trying to launch it, so it was back to iCab for me. Note, however, that the browsers which ship with MacOS 9 (Internet Explorer, Netscape) will crash your virtual machine, so you’ll have to either use Classilla or iCab. You now have your own working MacOS 9 environment.To set up networking, you have to go to the TCP/IP preferences panel, and set the values exactly as pointed out below in the screenshot. Nothing distracting, nothing that wastes loads of space or damages usability purely to look cool. It seemed strange that a much hyped new OS on such fast hardware wouldn’t offer that kind of thing.Trying it now I really appreciate the consistency and aesthetics. I couldn’t understand why Mac fans thought it was so wonderful.That’s mainly because I’d been using RISC OS for years, and took niceties like anti-aliased text and live dragging/resizing of windows for granted. While MacOS 9 is absolutely terrible from a technical point of view, Platinum still kicks everybody else’s bum when it comes to consistency and nice usability touches.It’s interesting playing around with Mac OS 8 now.I found it highly underwhelming at the time. It won’t give you the full experience, but it’s a nice and fun way to get to know an older operating system that has been pretty much obsoleted. A pop-up tab switcher that often gives you transparent text over the top of web site text), and lots of weird and inconsistent behaviour. Slathered with utterly moronic transparency effects (e.g. In Windows I’ve generally stuck with the good old grey and blue Windows Classic theme, and chosen applications that fit in with that rather than using non-standard skins, but that’s harder and harder to accomplish.For example Opera (with its Windows Native theme) used to be nice and simple and consistent, but with 10.5 that’s now designed for the flashy, standards free world of Windows Vista/7. It may look boring at a glance, but it’s lovely to use.Of course there’s in option of skins in modern operating systems, but it’s harder to fix every application.
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