SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

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Post by janandonly » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 10:32 AM UTC

SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator
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Re: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

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Post by ranger_danger » Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 11:32 PM UTC

If you need support for later versions of OS9, qemu at least works on 9.2 in my testing.

And unlike SheepShaver, Netscape/IE seems to work fine in qemu for me.

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Post by flashman » Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 11:36 PM UTC

macintosh.js is an alternative that runs as an Electron app https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

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Post by duskwuff » Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC

flashman wrote: post #3

macintosh.js is an alternative that runs as an Electron app https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

It's an Emscripten-compiled version of Basilisk II [1], which is closely related to SheepShaver. (The two emulators target different generations of Apple hardware - Basilisk does 68k CPUs, SheepShaver does PowerPC.)

[1]: https://basilisk.cebix.net/

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Post by NegativeLatency » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 12:06 AM UTC

ranger_danger wrote: post #2

If you need support for later versions of OS9, qemu at least works on 9.2 in my testing. And unlike SheepShaver, Netscape/IE seems to work fine in qemu for me.

Might also be able to use the "classic environment" from older mac os versions (in an emulator)

Re: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

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Post by noisebuffer » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 12:19 AM UTC

Time to fire up Tomb of the Taskmaker

Re: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

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Post by watersb » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 12:24 AM UTC

I first saw SheepShaver at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, a commercial product that enabled a Classic Mac environment on PowerPC-based BeOS hardware, the original BeBox.

These days, if you are just curious or want to relive to glory days of Apple's rise and near-death of 1990s, it might be easier to run a hosted environment such as Infinite Mac.

https://infinitemac.org/

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Post by TuringNYC » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 12:26 AM UTC

Here I thought it was a shearer emulator for aspiring farmers!

Re: SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

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Post by dlevine » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:30 AM UTC

The name SheepShaver is a play on ShapeShifter, which was a Mac II emulator for Amiga. I remember running an Amiga Emulator (UAE) AND Shapeshifter on top of that since it was the best Macintosh Emulation at one point in the late 90s.

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Post by cactusplant7374 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:41 AM UTC

noisebuffer wrote: post #6

Time to fire up Tomb of the Taskmaker

I loved that game!