June 23rd, 2008 mac os 9 on mac os x
So I had nostalgia for some old games like Lemmings and SimTower, but unfortunately, the Mac version of these games were only available for Mac OS 9. Being on an intel Mac with Leopard, it wasn’t possible to run these programs immediately. So I spent a good deal of yesterday and today trying to get an emulation of Mac OS 9 to work on my Macbook.
Sheepshaver is an open-source solution that emulates a PowerPC to run Mac OS 9 on an intel Mac, but like many open-source apps, they don’t make it easy. I had to track down various Macintosh ROM files of old PowerPCs, and also fiddle with a preference file in Terminal. o_O yikes! Nevertheless, I was successful, and I feel smarter for having done it. Here are some screenshots:
The legendary Mac OS 9 booting inside Leopard!
Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X side-by-side.
I even got Internet to work inside this thing.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Hi. i’m italian boy. i have necessity to know how do it. To do mac os9 inside on mac intel leopard. i found the SheepSaver programm, but i don’t know how to use. Please con you help me?
April 17th, 2010 at 11:36 am
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December 24th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
SheepShaver’s Classic-on-Intel really neeeds a Mac OS ROM file to run (the file named “”Mac OS ROM” that colud be in the Mac OS 8/9 System Folder, not a ROM image of an actual Power Macintosh because ROM capture utilities won’t work well with that), but it’s Classic-on-PPCLeopard does not because that feature virtualizes your PowerPC hardware. You couldn’t have run SheepShaver’s Classic-on-Intel feature without taking the Mac OS ROM from your Mac OS 8/9 System Folder and using it for SheepShaver.