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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.
Sheepshaver is great, but I've found Qemu's PPC emulation has progressed probably beyond what Sheepshaver can offer. For instance, it can run MacOS 9.2.2 and even early MacOSX PPC versions. Due to it's emulation limitations (lack of MMU), Sheepshaver has some weird incompatibilities, for instance MS Office, that you won't encounter running Qemu. On Mac, the UTM app is a great place to start!
Are there any ways to do some sort of upscaling for HiDPI displays? I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering.
> I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering. I'm not sure what that would even mean. Most of the UI was drawn from bitmaps - there isn't any higher resolution internal representation of e.g. a window border or a radio button.
I love playing with SheepShaver (and BasiliskII and MinivMac). I created disk images for the various 68K/PPC Mac emulators that have not just my early game sources but the compilers/tools to build them (if you're into that sort of thing). The commercial games are here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-CasadyGreene... But I have a repo with the shareware games and two more repos of games that were never…
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I think I found MYOB but not Best Books here: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2021-m-y-o-b-v5-0-1 Is the interface similar for Best Books? and also in color?
Hah, I actually haven't used it since I was last doing misc consulting stuff before living in Moscow in 2015-2018. I found my BestBooks folder easily enough, but had an ancient SheepShaver. Downloading an Apple Silicon-compatible build from January 2025 I replaced the app file, pointed it at a disk image, dragged the BestBooks folder in via the Unix shared folder ... and it launched right up! Here's browsing some ooo…
Are there any ways to do some sort of upscaling for HiDPI displays? I’ve always wondered what MacOS 8 or 9 would feel like with 2x retina style rendering.
It’s too bad there isn’t more momentum in the Mac emulation scene. It seems like it stalled out with SheepShaver and Basilisk II. The only new thing is “make it run in JS.” I would love to see an emulator that could run later OS versions like Tiger.
I use it to this day to run the "Best Books" accounting software (cut down MYOB) I bought in 1991 for the single-digit number of invoices I issue in a year. That's M68k software. Accounting doesn't change. The only thing I've had to do is change the GST rate from 12.5% to 15% in 2010. I use print to PostScript for invoices and reports then copy them to the host machine (which these days can be anything) and PDF or pr…
Even as a Millenial, it is extremely frustrating that modern versions of Excel/Office/&c are always trying to be so [un]helpful... auto-dates/-formatting is just such an absolute nuissance.
The day this machine dies will be one of great personal mourning / frustration.
Thanks for the emulation alternative, OP!