I personally recommend running Mac OS 8.6, my favorite version.įrom my testing, it works as well as the previous version 2.4. NOTE: SheepShaver is limited to running Mac OS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. More about SheepShaver can be found here: 'For more information see the revised setup manual. 'For a new setup, also download the SheepShaver folder. 'If you have an existing SheepShaver setup, you can simply replace the application with the new application. 'For Intel Mac, MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) through macOS 10.14 (Mojave) Notes about version 2.5 are available here: You are heartily invited to join the effort! Please note that I am pretty careless of the Windows version since I am not a Windows developer.

The following platforms are currently supported: Linux (i386, ppc, x86_64), MacOS X (i386, ppc), Darwin, NetBSD 2.0, FreeBSD 5.3 and Windows for x86.

Performance with the current CPU emulator using basic just-in-time (JIT) translation techniques is roughly 1/8-th of native speeds. On other systems, SheepShaver provides the first PowerPC G4 emulator, though without MMU, to enable the execution of Mac OS Classic. If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speeds (i.e., without any emulation involved). Networking: SheepShaver supports Internet and LAN networking via Ethernet and PPP with all Open Transport compatible MacOS applications.Native QuickDraw 2D acceleration for BitBlt and FillRect operations.Run-time depth switching from 1 bpp to current host depth settings.Color video display with support for run-time resolution switching.File exchange with the host OS via a Unix icon on the Mac desktop.Copy and paste of text between Mac OS and the host OS.Basic but portable JIT engine (x86, x86_64, mips).PowerPC G4 emulation on non-PowerPC platforms, direct execution otherwise.SheepShaver runs macOS 10.7 through macOS 10.14.

SheepShaver is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). However, you still need a copy of Mac OS and a PowerMac ROM image to use this program. That is, it enables you to run PowerPC Classic Mac OS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC Mac OS run-time environment.

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