Cannot run sheepshaver in leopard

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Basti Fantasty wrote:
Hi guys, just wondering if anyone has any experience with Sheepshaver?

I've just recently this year converted to the mac, and feel I've missed out of 20 years of Macintosh pre OS X operating systems. I'm trying to install OS9 with sheepshaver, however under leopard i find sheepshaver to be unresponsive, and just crashes when I open the application.

Does anyone know of sheepshaver having issues with Leopard?

Merry Christmas everyone,

Seb

I don't know about Sheepshaver but OS 9 will not run with Leopard...
If Sheepshaver needs OS 9, then I think you are out of luck unless there is a new version for OS X

To borrow your thread title, you "cannot run sheepsaver in Leopard"

From the website:

" However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a PowerMacintosh ROM image to use this program."

So if you are running on an Intel based Mac, you have no PPC ROM image. Is there a a particular piece of software you need to run? It may have been updated to run in Leopard.

I think the choice of ROM can make a big difference.

I still have a G3 tray loader (although the CRT is toast so it doesn't get used anymore), and the ROM from that one works better with 8.5 in Leopard than the ones commonly linked for download re: SheepShaver. With the downloaded ones, crashes were not uncommon, and the effects seem to bleed out into OS X, causing instability. With the iMac ROM, OS 8.5 is remarkably stable on my system - and fast. When the old Mac would crash, rebooting would take a couple of minutes, but on the rare occasions when SheepShaver does crash, a "reboot" takes seconds.

I would have preferred that Apple maintained Classic support for Leopard (and I honestly wouldn't have expected them to beyond that), but SheepShaver will probably be good enough to let me continue to access some of my old files. It is a remakable piece of software.

Anyway, try the iMac's ROM if you still have the disks.

I never had a retail 8.5 disk, but I inherited a beige G3 with 8.5.0 and the ROM from that (v1.1.2, 1.8 MB) did not work according to my notes (segv error, whatever that is). But my iMac came with 8.5.1 and that ROM was different (v.1.2.1, 3.3 MB). That might be the same as this one.

Anyway, on your CD, try looking inside the CD's "System Folder", or else on the installed 8.5 on your SheepShaver image, see if one was installed in there.

I suppose it's possible that different combinations work differently on different systems, so you might still have to test out various combinations.

Also, if you're looking at a "how to" guide, I have a step by step at my web site:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env006.htm

I haven't tried it in Leopard yet, but perhaps this might be useful to people who want to try it.

Enjoy,

Ken