"When Steve Jobs announced Apples transition to Intel's x86 processor line, a huge stir occurred among some Mac OS X users who depend on 'Classic' the OS9 environment in Mac OS X for their day to day Mac usage, as Mac OS X on Intel means no more 'Classic' and they were right. Rosetta allows PowerPC applications to run on x86 through JIT (Just In Time) architecture emulation, but its translation is not on a low enough level within OS X to allow 'Classic' to work on x86 and as such those among us who use OS9 applications have been left out in the cold. Until now that is: a project called 'Sheep Shaver' was created to allow BeOS on PowerPC emulate the PowerPC architecture to run another PowerPC operating system on top of BeOS. This application was ported to Mac OS X with the demise of Be Inc. and has since been ported to Mac OS X on Intel processors."
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Member since:2008-01-04
I have only had an Intel based iMac for 2 maybe 3 months now, before that I had an old G4 iBook and a G4 Mac mini that served me well, and since getting an Intel iMac, I found SheepShaver, and attempted to set it up myself but more often than not it just locked up on me.
I have an old G3 Prismo Powerbook and like I said in the article I bought a set of OS 9 install CD's for my iBook, so as far as reasonably concerned I'm running SheepShaver with a ROM from my Prismo and my own OS9 disc's as the OS9 install that comes with COI is tripe.
It was more than anything pointing out that there is a pre-configured environment for use if people wish to use it, I chose to take the package and install my own OS9 system on top of it.
As regardless of what most people do, 50%+ seem unable to get SheepShaver to work at all.
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2006-01-05
So someone takes SheepShaver (an old build rather than the better stuff in CVS, or available as unofficial builds on community sites like Emaculation). Packages it up with a ROM file and OS 9.0.4 and calls it "COI - Classic-On-Intel", gives it a version number, and puts it on the torrent sites...
And this is somehow news? Geez.