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Jan 6, 2011 11:23 AM in response to Casey Petersenby Allan Eckert,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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Jan 6, 2011 11:56 AM in response to Allan Eckertby Casey Petersen,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?!!
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Jan 6, 2011 12:06 PM in response to Casey Petersenby thomas_r.,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....
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Jan 8, 2011 6:59 PM in response to Casey Petersenby brrk,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. -
Jan 9, 2011 4:42 AM in response to brrkby thomas_r.,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.