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Casey Petersen

Q: Classic mode or PPC emulation

I've been searching the internet and have not found a clear answer to my question.

I have a Mac Pro using OSX Snow Leopard. I have been using Mac's since the old Mac SE and progressed through the years of System 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, X.

I have a lot of old software that I used to be able to run in Classic under OSX Panther. I want to run those programs again, but alas there is no Classic for OSX Snow Leopard.

Is there some kind of emulation software that I can download that will let me run these old 68k & PPC apps on my Mac Pro?

Thanks!
Casey

Mac Pro 2 x 3Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 6, 2011 10:42 AM

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  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Jan 6, 2011 11:14 AM in response to Casey Petersen
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    Jan 6, 2011 11:14 AM in response to Casey Petersen
  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Jan 6, 2011 11:23 AM in response to Casey Petersen
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    Jan 6, 2011 11:23 AM in response to Casey Petersen
    Baltwo is correct about sheepshaver. But it supports only a very limited of apps and it also requires you to get the eprom code from an old Mac. On top of that, the installation is a bit of a bear.

    So many of the diehard OS 9 users I know have elected to maintain an older Mac that is able support Classic directly.


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  • by Casey Petersen,

    Casey Petersen Casey Petersen Jan 6, 2011 11:56 AM in response to Allan Eckert
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    Jan 6, 2011 11:56 AM in response to Allan Eckert
    Whoa...the seems a lot more complicated than I thought.

    How about this...is it possible to install a second OS on my Mac Pro of OSX Panther that I can install Classic with?

    Maybe it'd be easier to get an old Mac to work....I have Aldus PageMaker files from 1990 that I want to open...good luck, huh?!!

    Thanks!
    Casey
  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Jan 6, 2011 12:06 PM in response to Casey Petersen
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    Jan 6, 2011 12:06 PM in response to Casey Petersen
    How about this...is it possible to install a second OS on my Mac Pro of OSX Panther that I can install Classic with?


    No. For one, you can't install an older system than what shipped on your Mac:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186

    For two, the only machines Apple has sold the last few years have Intel processors and thus cannot run Classic in any form regardless of the version of the OS that is installed.

    Maybe it'd be easier to get an old Mac to work....


    Yup, that's what you're going to want to do.
  • by brrk,

    brrk brrk Jan 8, 2011 6:59 PM in response to Casey Petersen
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    Jan 8, 2011 6:59 PM in response to Casey Petersen
    There is a very recent setup guide for SheepShaver:

    http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshavermac_os_xsetup

    The link in an earlier post makes SheepShaver look more complicated than it is. It's not too difficult to set up the emulator and install an OS.
  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Jan 9, 2011 4:42 AM in response to brrk
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    Jan 9, 2011 4:42 AM in response to brrk
    The link in an earlier post makes SheepShaver look more complicated than it is. It's not too difficult to set up the emulator and install an OS.


    Whether that is the case or not, there's no escaping the fact that you must first own an older machine from which to take a ROM snapshot... and if you already own such a machine, you'll undoubtedly have better, more uniform results running old software under an old system on that old machine than in SheepShaver.