OS9 emulator for Intel Macs?

Joe,

Google for Sheepshaver.

There's also OS8 and system 6 & 7 emulators, Basilisk II and vMac and mini-vMac. Google for these too if you need them.

Which apps would you like to keep running ?

I've been thru this several times and really can't wait to tell my users - you can use that OS9 (Classic Application) anymore...

Maybe it's just me ?

Hi Joe;

The Infocom Lost Treasures being games would most likely have the least chance of working with an emulator.

Allan

Allan,

I might disagree about the Infocom adventures. They were simple text adventures, written to Apple's HIG (Human interface Guidelines), and apart from a few that had some colour, they only used Apple's standard windowing routines, which any OS9 emulator would have to have spot on.

I really recommend the original poster looks at the new version of Word, or at least find a copy of AppleWorks 6 to do their word processing. I remember WP3.5.1, it was OK, but you'd have to be desperate to want to use it on a whizzy new Mac. Especially now there are so many shareware and freeware titles that could blow WP3.5.1 away.

Hi Simon;

Having been forced to use WordPerfect for one project I am not sure exactly what flavor it was but I have to concur. Just about anything is better.

Allan

Yes Word Perfect was very good as I remember.

As the other posters mentioned maybe check out the newer Word 2004 ?

And there are Shareware word processors that you may be able to use to "extract" some/all of your document...

Maybe it's time to bite the bullet and redo the document ?

Mitch

First off, you can run those old Infocom games directly in OS X! Check out a program called "Zoom": http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14763

Secondly, there are plenty of OS X word processors you can choose from other than Word. Mellel, OpenOffice, Nisus Writer Express, Pages, Papyrus...

That being said, if you really want to stick with OS 9 apps, there are people working on ways to run Classic on an Intel through emulation. Check out Sheepshaver at http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/

The WP Mac group at Yahoo is keeping track of emulators for Intel.

G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Well, one application yet to be satisfactorily replaced by a newer application is the fabulous Claris Emailer v. 2.0v3! Its listserve is full of people still running it happily under Classic in OS X, who don't want to give it up!

There is a beta out there of a program called Parallel. It supposed to be the "Virtual PC" for intel macs. The website also shows other OS's (Linux, Solaris, OS/2 Warp etc.) so it may not hurt to try the beta to see if it would run OS 9.


http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

Have you tried OpenOffice.org?
Requires X11 to run (which comes with the OS) and there is some fudging around to get fonts installed, but it will get you a NON Microsoft way to run "Office".

Joe-

After I made the switch to OS X I didn't want to spend the money for Office and wanted better import/export flexibility than Apple Works permitted.

I tried Open Office and found it too slow. I found AbiWord to my liking. I also liked Mariner Write.

Mariner Write can't open Wordperfect directly but only after saving WP as an RTF file. However, I can open WP 3.5 files with AbiWord and I've never experienced any font or formating incompatabilities.

AbiWord is open source. Mariner Write cost $49.95 or the Mariner Write/Calc Pak is $89.95.

I'm more satisfied using these two word processors than any other word processing app(s) since I began using a Mac in 1988.

Fred



PB G4 and eMac G4 and PB 5300 and PowerPC 6100 601 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Mac OS X 10.3.8, Mac OS 7.6.1, Mac OS 9.1

I think an honorable mention goes to FlySuite, but as far as I know, it doesn't work in Mac OS 9 because of a certain higher level of Java is required. They are basically a Java - Cross-Platform application that runs in the modern OS's, browsers, and is CPU independent. Both seems to blend right in using the OS's built in GUI as well.

Well— my 2 cents worth.

...Ron

Parallels is definately NOT like Virtual PC. Parallels is a virtualization approach that runs on top of the "real" hardware in an Intel mac. It is NOT emulation, which pretends to be hardware it is not. Parallels requires an intel processor with virtualization support and is not really a solution for an OS9 EMULATOR... something that pretends it is a "PowerPC" processor.