It hung after a few settings, so I had to force-quit it. A restart later, I went through the installation assistant. The Mac started up, realized the disk image had no OS, and booted from my CD, where I ran through the installer just like on a real Mac. Then I inserted my 8.5 System CD ROM for a Classic Mac and clicked 'Start' to boot. Once I had my ROM file, I selected it in the SheepShaverGUI setup utility, created a disk on the first page, upped the hard disk size (1024MBs) and RAM on a later one (512MBs), and increased the refresh rate (otherwise it'll run just fine, but seem slow due to, effectively, 'dropped frames'). Luckily, this MacOnLinux Download Page has a link to a ROM Updater on Apple's site that includes a ROM file for a Mac from the 8.5 era, so I didn't have to use an extracting app to get the ROM from my old 7200. Sadly, I skipped 9.0.4, and ShapeShifter doesn't support 9.1 for which I have a system CD, nor does it support PCI-based Macs like my old G4. Aforementioned XLR8YourMac page contains a link to a MacOS 9.0.4 updater that contains the 'Mac OS ROM' file, that you can extract by using TomeViewer on any Classic-capable Mac. Of course, like most emulators, it needs a ROM. It even comes with a little X11 GUI that lets you set up the config file easily. On XLR8YourMac's Classic on Intel Macs page, you can find a recent experimental snapshot of SheepShaver for Intel Macs.

The neat part about this is that it's been ported to Intel and thus runs on all currently selling Macs. Sheep Shaver is a PowerPC Mac emulator that originally started out on BeOS, but later got ported to Linux and Darwin as well. you need to know about the Mac keyboardĭuring a search of the HyperCard Maling List archives, I just stumbled across Sheep Shaver. Less work through Xcode and shell scripts

Sheepshaver sound