I must be missing something here, but how can I get SheepShaver to see my 7.0.1 smi disk image?

Are we stuck with 9.04 or can we go up to 9.1 and 9.2?

Why doesn’t Apple themselves make this available for the Intel Macs. I am putting off getting an Intel mac until I can get one of my “classic” apps ported over to OS X.

for the 9.1 disc I receive an error “The startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. Use the latest Installer to update this disk for this model.” how did you manage to get 9.1 installed? :-)

So how are people getting Sheepshaver to recognize the 7.0.1 install image?

Intel Mac - yes

Note that some legacy CDs of MacOS may be machine specific. This could cause problems trying to install. You’ll need a generic version.

By coincidence, Low End Mac are lamenting the loss of access to legacy apps with Intel Macs. This will be a great breakthrough for schools who are still getting good mileage out of some of the old programs.

I downloaded the Mac OS 9.0.4 Update.smi but I’m not sure if that’s all I need, and if it is, how to get the emulator to boot off it it. I added it as a volume, but the emulator still blinks “floppy icon” at me.

yes, I’d like to know how to get the 7.0.1 image to work too

Great possibilities,

Big Question: the OS 8 installer screen does not find a valid existing volume and prompts me to do a clean install. SHOUL !? Is there any danger to my existing OSX?

Thanks again. Waiting for a sign.

How are the graphics performance?

Neal Saferstein

I’m using a os 9.0 retail disc, but all I get it is the floppy disc with a flashing “?” inside it. Any thoughts? I’m using an intel iMac 20″, with SheepShaver set to a 350 MB volume, and 256 MB RAM. Must…….play……..Barrack!

For those getting the flashing question mark, try holding the “C” key down when you start. This makes the Mac look at the CD for install rather than from floppies.

I own a Mac OS 8 Retail disk. But for this disc I receive an error “The startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. Use the latest Installer to update this disk for this model.� Any ideas?

http://homepage.mac.com/last_modified/sheepshaver/7.5.3.gif

Thanks so much for your continued support. This is really an important piece of work unfolding here.

All versions of Mac OS before 8.1 require an HFS volume (aka “Mac OS Standard”), NOT HFS+ (aka “Mac OS Extended”).

So users trying to intall 7.0.x, 7.5.x, 7.6.x or 8.0 need to create an HFS volume first.

Versions 8.1 to 9.2.2 work on both HFS and HFS+ (HFS+ preferred).

HFS volumes of more than 2 GB would probably be bad ideas if they even happen to work.

Also keep in mind that before OSX a system folder could simply be copied like any other folder, which is simpler and faster than using the installer if you already have a pre-OSX Mac at hand to handle the copy (because Mac OS X’s Finder wouldn’t set the volume’s “blessed” folder after copying it, requiring some unneccessarily hairy workaround). To be safe you’d need a reasonably fresh and universal system folder to copy.

Got it running. Now just to find some cool old software to run! Any pointers or suggestions?

Question about LAN remains… would be great to know!

To run the older OS’s like system 7, you need an OldWorld ROM. I don’t know which ROM (or NewWorld ROMfile) was linked to in this article, but I’m willing to bet it’s a NewWorld ROM, which is not compatible with any OS earlier than 8.1, iirc.

To get an OldWorld rom image, you need to image a REAL Mac, like a Quadra, and use that file for the ROM. These are not freely downloadable as the ROM above is, and may require a little legwork to locate.

But that’s the most likely reason you can’t get system 7 running correctly.

This page describes it in greater detail: http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/2006/LEM-Classic-on-Intel.html

Seriously guys, get with the times. OS 9 is old, worthless and outdated. OSX has been out over half a DECADE. If you are still using applications that run in OS 9 you have serious attachment issues. If you find one thing you like and expect to never move from it you should just stop using computers now.

I’m trying this on a Macbook with 2 gigs of RAM.

Once I press the start button I get an error message that says “this startup disk will not work on this Maintosh model. Use the latest Installer to update this disk for this model.” btw, I’m using OS 9.2.1 CD as my startup disk.

What now? Has anyone gotten this to work? I’d much rather run OS 9 than Windows on my Macbook.

I downloaded the Mac_OS_ROM file and put in my SheepShaver folder. I opened the sheepshaverGUI ap but can’t work out what to do to create the the volume.

I click on “add” and get the path to my sheepshaver folder in the window. The I select “create” and I get the same navigation window. What do I do now. So I put a name “Sheepshaver_Volume” into the box, then click “ok” a file is created with this name in the sheepshaver folder.

click Start and it says “sheepshaver error can’t open ROM file”.

What is going on?

As a general rule when writing instructions please be specific, (ie do you give the new volume a name and if so what are the naming rules etc) and don’t leave out bits that seem obvious but really aren’t to everyone (or at least to moron’s like me)

Newbie here - have a MacPRO coming in that I would dearly love to run VisualFoxPro 3.0 on in Classic mode (Parallels not supporting at this time). Any/all guidance on getting SheepShaver in place & working would be appreciated! MacPro is 3GHz model with 8GB RAM and PLENTY of hard disk space available.

I’ve been running OS 9.0.4 on my Intel iMac for several months now and once set up properly, it works great. Stable enough for my needs.

* Networking fine. Both IE 5 & Current iCab browse perfectly in OS 9.0.4.
* Sound, games work - Arkanoid, Firefall arcade work just fine. Several of my kids edutainment CD’s work fine as well.

Two hardest parts of setting up:
1. Finding the correct ROM. Tip use the ROM file from here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60408

Problem - you need to run TOME viewer in classic / OS 8-9 to extract the ROM from here.

2. Getting a proper boot disk. Sheepshaver runs 8.5, 8.6, 9.0 upto 9.0.4 fine.

Best instructions for set up & config (by Ronald) are here:
http://www.emaculation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3193

Roger,

I had this same problem. It will only create the virtual disk image at the root level of your HD. Don’t try to put it in another directory. Click Create, give the file a name (in the window that opens) and click OK.

Well, I’ve had SheepShaver and 9.1 installed for about two months on a MacBook Pro 15″, and have been pretty happy with it. However, the biggest problem that I have is that you can’t stay connected to a server. Browsing works fine (iCab, IE) but using Chooser to connect to an AppleTalk share on an OS X Server 10.4 system is iffy. I can pull a directory from the share (albeit V-E-R-Y slowly), but if I try to download a file or open one, or even Get Info on one, the connection is severed.

So, not only can’t I grab files, I also can’t print to a networked printer, and I can’t run server-based apps like FileMaker Pro or TimeSlips. TS is the killer for me; my boss won’t let go of it, but I’m getting my iMac G4 replaced next week with an iMac Core Duo 17″, so I really need to get this ironed out.

Anyone else have these issues?

Oh, and “shared folders” with the OS X side are terribly implemented; losing resource forks, and folders show as files…

this is fantastic. finally i can use old programs such as EQS (statistical modeling software) that are not available on os X and never will be it seems.

i have a macbook pro with 2gig ram and i followed the instructions above and got some extra help here:

http://www.emaculation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3179

My wireless internet works flawlessly in 9.0.4 (available via p2p) and i can easily transfer files by using the chooser and appletalk to connect to my macbook pro just by throwing its ip address into the chooser. boom!

thanks!

Some Guy: When some writes an OSX audio editor as good Alchemy, an outliner as good as In Control, a combo bitmap/object-oriented draw program like SuperPaint, and makes a sheet scanner with a 2×9 inch footprint like PaperPort, I will be happy to abandon Classic. Until then, you don’t know wtf you are talking about.

To those having difficulties, here are some tips/basic principles I’ve manged to figure out (this thing is like solving RIven, fer cryin out loud. Is it too much to ask to supply decent minimal, step-by-step documentation?):

I have 8.6 booting. I used a general distribution CD and the ROM file from it.

- For the “volumes” thing, you need to do a “create” from within SS GUI. This will create some kind of file of the size you specify, but it’s not a disk image. I tried making a DMG and was able to install 8.6 on it, but could never get SS to boot from it. Anyway, after you’ve “created” the disk file (I gave mine a “.dsk” extension because that’s what the author did, I don’t know if it’s important) then you launch SS or press “Start” from SS GUI (the installer CD must be in the drive and mounted beforehand). Mac OS should boot, and it will say the disk is unreadable. The size indicated in the dialog should correspond to the size you specified in SS GUI, which should reassure you somewhat that it’s not going to erase your main drive. Give it a name (I used the same name I specified in SS GUI, again, I don’t know if it’s important). Go ahead and do the initialization. When Mac OS is done booting the created disk should appear on the Mac OS desktop. Run the installer (on the CD), using the disk image as the target. I turned off most installer options, including “update hard disk drivers”. Quit SS (Mac OS will ask if you want to shut down, say OK). Eject the CD, run SS, and Mac OS should boot from the disk image.

- The “UNIX Root” thing. This field in SS GUI translates to the “extfs” parameter in the prefs file (be nice if this was mentioned somewhere, huh). The author specifies a file in his recommended prefs (I think), which seems weird to me; I’d think it should be a directory. I’m obviously not a Linux geek. Anyhow, whatever directory this ends up pointing to becomes the root directory of the “Unix” volume that ends up mounted on the Mac OS desktop. People have warned not to just leave this field set at the default drive root, I’m not sure why. I’m also not sure what the point of this whole Unix drive is, because I can’t get anything from the two worlds to work together (see below).

MY PROBLEM - How do I get Classic Apps into the Mac OS environment such that they will work? The apps that came over from the installer disk launch fine. MY classic apps, copied from OS X into either the virtual disk or left in the Unix volume, appear as “documents” and will not launch. Conversely, if I copy one of the apps from the installer disk into the Unix volume (just for fun), OSX sees it as document and not a Classic app. WTF? Any help will be much appreciated, thanks.

Yeah Julia D…

amen…isn’t PaperPort the coolest…still have two of them in operation and can’t imagine not being able to use them, SuperPaint still in use, as well as Hypercard on a daily basis
I just don’t get why Apple doesn’t have a simple utility like SS to keep years of past work relevant and accesible
re: your problem
I am running SS on a G5 quad to test it under osX for eventual move to an intel machine…perhaps a laptop…so I don’t know that my install will create the the same scenario as yours, but the UNIX volume shows up on my 8.6 desktop and file transfer between the two works fine…in fact, since I haven’t been able to get networking to work, when I want to move a file from another drive to the os 8.6 desktop I first put it into My osX drive and then move it from the UNIX folder to my os 8.6 drive and everything docs and apps have worked fine

Slow as hell and incredibly buggy, crashes for nothing. Far away from usable. Very poor integration with the host OS. Tip: if you want to exchange files to SheepShaver, first compress them using DropStuff (.sit) then move to SheepShaver then uncompress. Otherwise your Mac files will loose their resource forks and they will be unusable. I wonder if someone could make the actual Classic environment run under Rosetta…

GL…
configured as you say but cannot access network

i’m on an intel mac. i got to the part where you create a ‘virtual volume’ (i assume you can name it whatever you want and put it in the Sheep Shaver application folder?).

then i click on ’start’ and it tells me that I have an ‘unsupported ROM type’ (i downloaded the one that is linked in the instructions, not the one directly from Apple, but the other one).

what have i done wrong??? thanks for your help!

Having issues with the volume creation…

I go under “volumes,” click “create,” set volume size for 300MB, go down the file path to where my SheepShaver folder is located, and then press “OK.” After that, the volume creation window goes away, and there is nothing listed in the volumes list on the main window. I clicked “go” anyway just for the heck of it, and there was not volume available for use when I booted 9.0.4 successfuly. All I got was a window asking me if I wanted to reformat the disk that 9 couldn’t recognise, which was my laptop’s HD, which I didn’t want to change.

What am I doing wrong in the volume creation stage? Any ideas?

Using a MacBook Pro running 10.4.7.

Thanks,

Doc.

Hi confused,

Are you using the OS 9 disk? Because I think the OS ROM only supports OS 9. I got 8.5 installed using the OS ROM downloaded from here, but Sheep Shaver keeps crashing halfway through reboot so I’m guessing it’s because I didn’t install the right OS to go with the ROM. Just a thought anyway.

Julia,
Try burning your applications to a CD within OS X (and you might as well toss all of the other stuff on to the CD as well) and then having the CD in the drive before you launch sheepsaver. I would recommend using ResEdit to change the file type of your applications to APPL if they appear as docs (I too have this issue) . I have been transfering my files into the ‘unix’ share as selfextracting archives created using stuffit within osx (be sure to create .sit not sitx sea’s) but I still need to change the file type from within OS9 (9.0.4) to APPL as the LPPA file type won’t work. I also can’t get my network working completely (although I can see my server in the network browser) I can’t mount the server or see my laserjet.
I’m using:
system 9.0 updated to 9.0.4
the ROM from Mac OS ROM update 1.0
512MB RAM allocate to OS9 within the SSgui
a 2GB boot drive image

running on an iMac Core Duo
If I can’t get my printer to work I’ll try and use Adobe Acrobat to print pdf’s
I’ll keep pounding…

When i push start after i have done the settings in GUI, the system (i run 9.0) starts up, background with lots of “cd� pictures, and then the system ask me to
“inizilize the disc, because it cant be red by the computer�.
Can i safely push the botton to initalize? If i dont, i cannot install.

Picture of the screen:
http://static.flickr.com/88/223035818_48d6073187.jpg?v=0

I got my printing working (IP printing as I didn’t realize that appletalk isn’t functional under SS) In answer to the question from Mazz above — When you created a drive image within the SSgui it is a bare drive as far as OS9 is concerned; therefore it needs to be initialized by OS9 (use HFS Extended format), then you can instal OS9 on the “disk” you just initialized. RockDad probably needs to move his install stuff over to a CD from within OS X and then mount the CD within the SS OS9.

Progress! Putting my Mac OS applications on a CD worked! After copying them from the CD into the SS virtual disk they still launch, cool. Bad news is that audio playback from Alchemy is so stuttery that it’s useless, I guess I’ll be stuck with editing audio in OSX. Can’t open documents from the Unix volume, so I guess I’ll have to try the self-extracting or .sit archive trick. Does anyone know a free or inexpensive alternative to StuffIt Deluxe for creating .sea or .sit archives?

Julia,
I have another solution for you —> Create a blank drive image with DIsk Utility (this will be a .dmg) Make sure it is read/write and NOT SPARSE. Next, put the path to this image into the SheepShaver_prefs via the SSgui (as a volume)
BEFORE you boot SS, you can mount the image in OSX and put on any files/programs you want; then UNMOUNT the image from OSX. NOW boot SS. All of your stuff should appear WITHOUT any issues. DON’T have the image mounted by both OS9 and OSX at the same time… very baaaaaaaad so to speak.

I just got an Intel 17-inch imac and really need some of my system 9 applications. I downloaded sheepshaver and the rom, no problem. My problem is the startup disk.

I downloaded something calling itself “startup Disk 9.2.1smi”. Is that what I needed. If so, what do I do with the file to get the GUI to recognize and use it (no flashing ?)? Just burn that file on a disk or what? I need simple instructions in simple English.

Am I right in understanding that once installed by the gui component, all I need to do is use the regular sheepshaver for them on? And, frankly, then what? Do I load the applications I want to use in the folder, the virtual volume which I assume is created, or what? To then use, do I just go to volume and click on my application or do I need to launch sheepshaver each time?

Some help for this geezer would be appreciated. Answers can also be sent to my email: ripleykv@earthlink.net.

Thanks.

how do i get to display my sheep shaver classic window to display at full screen size? can’t change the size at all (neither through grabing and pulling the window nor through resizing it through os9 control panel - monitor)?

I successfully installed 8.5! However, I can’t get Classic versions of Civilization or Colonization to work. I remembered that there was a system extension called “FixCivInit”, which I installed in the extensions folder. But even after rebooting, it says the application needed to open the file can’t be found — even though it *is*, itself, an application.

Anyone else having these troubles, or have suggestions?

Thanks,

Patrick

Got it! I read back through the postings. Copying things to a CD-ROM and then bringing them in through SS worked beautifully. My favorite dusty old games, on my sparkling new MacBook Pro!

Thanks, everyone!

Patrick

Glad you got it working, Patrick. If you follow the last bit of back-and-forth between myself and jroryb you’ll see that it’s not necessary to burn stuff to a CD.

I was never able to get SS to boot off of a .dmg drive created with Disk Utility either.
Did you install the OS onto the drive created by the SSgui? (I am assuming you must have)
… Curious; which ROM are you using?
And you are using an OS 9.0 install disc?
Is the SSgui set to boot from any disk (vs CD)?
How much RAM did you allocate to OS9?
Did you change anything else?
Did you remove the .dmg boot drive from the .sheepshaver_prefs file?

I can’t be sure this will work, only that it works for my setup — Try using the ROM from Mac OS ROM update 1.0 . You can download it free from Apple. Then use tomeviewer to extract the ROM . All must be done on an OS9 machine (MAY be able to be done in Classic) . I also never have spaces in ANY of my path names; meaning use underscores or dashes.

Example .sheepshaver_prefs file:

disk /Users/Shared/SheepShaverMac/SS680Boot.dsk
disk /Users/Shared/SheepShaverMac/SS680Xfer.dmg
extfs /Users/Shared/SheepShaverShare
screen win/1024/768
windowmodes 0
screenmodes 0
seriala
serialb /dev/null
rom /Applications/SheepShaver-2.3/Mac-OS-ROM
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 536870912
frameskip 8
gfxaccel true
nocdrom false
nonet false
nosound false
nogui false
noclipconversion false
ignoresegv true
jit true
jit68k false
keyboardtype 5
ether slirp
keycodes true
keycodefile /Users/Shared/SheepSaverMac/Basilisk_II_keycodes
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
ignoresegv true
idlewait true

Hope this helps.

I have the same problem reported here.
I created a virtual disk directly from SheepShaver2.3
Starting SheepShaver form a MacOS 9.0 CD I initialize the just created HD (extendend). After this, I start the OS installer but after that the installer start to install the system (after all the OKs and Agree) ShhepShaver simply quits.
This happens on an iMac Intel.
Any hints?

I finally created a virtiual disk from Sheepshaver2.3 and initialized in extended format but when I try to install the system from a MacOS 9.0.4 CD I got the following message: “This program cannot run on your computer” (MacBook Pro 17″).
What can I do now?

Jean

I used the ROM from Mac OS ROM update 1.0 and a system 8.6 install CD. It installed with no problems. My problem is when I try to boot without the CD, I only get the flashing ? I never saw the initialize disk message.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Has anyone successfully use PageMaker 6.5 with SheepShaver? This is important.

Don’t tell me to use InDesign, I have over 100 1meg files with PICT files in them, InDesign does not recognize PICT files. I resue these files every year and do not have time to redo all 100 files.

I wish it worked. I downloaded the ROM as Helen suggested. I tried OS 8.0, 8.6, 9.04, 9.02 (all German versions). None of them worked. Well, OS 8.6 sort of worked once, but every try after that led to a crash. I wish SheepShaver worked cause I would like to use my Russian programs which never made the transition to OSX. With the current version of SheepShaver, however, I am afraid I won´t be able to.

> OS 9 is the past, OS X is the future.

That’s fine from a political standpoint. But the reality is that people have invested thousands of dollars in their OS9 software and don’t want to just throw it away. This is not to mention the time spent learning these programs, workflow, efficiency, etc. Apple’s philosophy is that all of their installed consumer base should buy new hardware and software every couple of years. This just isn’t realistic. Maybe Steve or Woz can do that without hesitation, since they have untold billions of our dollars in their wallets.

Response to question:

If you have issues with apps showing up as documents in OS9 - try rebuilding the desktop. Startup the environment with the option and open-apple (command) keys down. When you get to the desktop, it will ask if you want to rebuild. Just click ok and wait.

just to clarify something Richard, I was quoting the original post - not suggesting that people follow what I said. :) I’m just as confused as anyone else!

I am trying to download the rom so that I can run OS 9 on my new intel computer. After I have gone through all of the steps and click start on the sheepshaver GUI box, I get an error that says that the ROM size is invalid and blah, blah, blah. How do I fix this? What am I doing wrong? PLease help. I have been working on this a while.

thanks in advance

vickie

Downloaded the rom from the link.Installed that and the sheep shaver .got to the screen hit the start button and the error message came up “rom file invalid sheep shaver needs 4MB PCI power Mac Rom. How do I fix?

On my Intel MacBook Pro, I have gotten as far as installing OS 9.0 from my original CD. The installer launches in the SheepShaver window, but in the ’select destination’ window the Destination Disk selection is grayed out, and has the following message: “A valid destination volume can’t be found. To continue the installation process, mount a valid volume for software installation.”
Any suggestions?

Easily enough I was able to install os 9 per your instructions. I’ve installed a few of teh applications on the os 9 cd… but when i transfer files over from my main os x partition, they don’t take. i haven’t successfully unpackaged on sit file on this machine. How are you folks getting your programs installed?

@Abby Razer:
you should create a Disk-Image. Use the GUI, set up to 1500MB. You will be promted to initialize if you boot.

Hardest Thing for me to find out: I canot start SS from the GUI “Start”-Button. Once the Settings are done, you have to oben the application direktliy.

@Sean:
When running SS under OS X, you must configure “SLIRP” as Network in the GUI an in OS 9 set in Network Pref: “DHCP” automaticly. Conecting to Server or other Clients in the chooser use “Server-IP-Adresse”

@al:
Hardware: MacBookPro 17″ 2GB RAM
I am running OS 9.0.4 from an G4-Installation CD. When trying to install, I was promted “dosn’t work with your System”. So I copied the Systemfolder to the mounted System Disk. But: NOT THE VISIBLE FOLDER ffrom the CD!!! You can open the “Power Mac.img” in the “Konfiguration”-Folder on the CD and then do the copy…

My Problem:
I can’t configure my AppleTalk-Network. In the Settings there is no Apple Talk Zone available. I need to work with Filemaker 4 and I must print from it very often.

Please Help!

Toni

Thank you for the above suggestion. Now when I boot from the cd it asks to initialize….trys and says the disk is locked. Any ideas?

Hi,

Just installed SheepShaver on a Probook w/INtel Chip. I used the ROM extracted from an Apple update, and installed OS 8.5 from a generic CD. Problem was that it would boot from the CD and install fine - but when trying to boot from the disk image(2GB, created with the disk utility that came with the Probook) it would crash instantly.

So I began to suspect that I needed to find a different way to create a disk image. I used a Powerbook G3 to create a 2GB disk image with the old OS9 disk utility, and transferred it to the Probook via a local network. That did the trick.

In theory, I suspect I could have placed the system folder from my old Mac into the disk image but haven’t tried yet. I can report that extracting a ROM file from the old Wallstreet G3 Powerbook did NOT work.

Steve

No need to reply. I’ve found a bad solution and a better one. The bad one is using FileTyper or a similar program on Mac OS 9. That will rebuild the data fork anyway you like. The good solution is stuffing folders on Mac OS X, then copying the stuffed archive on to the Sheepshaver virtual disk, and then having Mac OS 9 unstuff the archive. This way the data fork isn’t damaged. Perhaps an upcoming version of Sheepshaver will automatically solve such things for us, together with less jerky sound.

Hi,

I Run 9.0.4 on ProMB. Works great. IP filesharing is stabile and fast.

Anyone got AppleTalk to work?

My problem: Cant find any servers automatically when choosing AppleShare, only via IP.
Same for AppleTalk printers. Cant find any.

Is there a way to make this work?

Can someone do me a HUGE favour and the link to http://rapidshare.de/files/30169965/Mac_OS_ROM.html won’t work for me as i’m on a Router and does not like it. So could someone upload it to somewhere else or send it to my addy: jh.saunders@btopenworld.com

I managed to load OS 8.6 but haven’t been successful in running any of my Classic applications on it. I drag an application program across from the UNIX disk to my virtual Classic disk and when I click the program it reads “The document “(name of application)” could not be opened, because the application program that created it could not be found.” Any suggestions on how to open programs dragged and dropped into this environment?

I find it very sad, that here are only messages with problems and neraly NONE with solutions!

Are there no other Forums out there, whre someone can get HELP ???

Hi Everyone.

I’m not having much luck with this. I keep getting the following error:
Sheep Shaver Error:
Cannot map first Kernal Data Area: Permission denied.

I’ve tried moving the Sheep Shaver folder from my Applications folder to my Desktop and back again. I’ve tried MacOS 9.2.1, 9.0 and 9.04 install CDs. I’ve downloaded the pre prepared MacOS ROM. I’ve also tried creating one of my own using a clamshell iBook and Tome Viewer.

I’m running 10.4.7 on a 1.83GHz MacBook with 2GB of RAM.

And I get the above error message every single time. Does anyone have any suggestions on what Im doing wrong?

Andrew

@Tim
you must stuff the programms, copy to the xchange folder and then unstuff them on your new “old” System

Toni

I still get “This program will not run on your computer” when I use SheepShaver for the first time.

Golly gee willickers - I hate to ask this, but…

I need to migrate my Atari ST files. Is there a good Atari ST emulator for the Mac?

Some guy
2 months, 2 weeks ago

“Seriously guys, get with the times. OS 9 is old, worthless and outdated. OSX has been out over half a DECADE. If you are still using applications that run in OS 9 you have serious attachment issues. If you find one thing you like and expect to never move from it you should just stop using computers now.”

—Yeah….and the only problem with that way of thinking is that lotsa clients don’t use OSX yet. They hand you a file done in QuarkXPress 4 and something in FreeHand 7 or something even older. What Apple doesn’t seem to realize is that over half of its paying customers probably still use Classic. EVEN the service bureaus. That’s been my experience. They paid a lotta money for their apps and they don’t wanna throw ‘em away yet. So even if ya got they latest and greatest, quite often, yer clients don’t, dude. Yew gotta give whatever the customers want. And often times, they aint uptadate. So ya need that Classic environment. I still have a G5. In fact, I haven’t bought into the Intel environment yet, because it isn’t mainstream yet. It’s really still the fringe, and ya have to wait till the 90% catches up ta the ‘In’ Crowd (the 1-2%of MacUsers out there with Intel machines).