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emendelson

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Re: Sheepshaver enhanced = MacOS9 App
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2025, 05:04:47 AM »

I've made some minor corrections and improvements in the original Mac OS 9 app (link in first post), but nothing major. And I now possibly have a fully-working version that stores the disk images in the user's Library folder instead of in the app itself, making it possible to update the app without disturbing the disk images. Same download link:

https://mendelson.org/Mac OS 9 New.zip

This removes one feature from the original version - you can't drag a disk image into the app and use it to replace the built-in image as the boot disk. You can still, however, boot once from a different disk image and use it to copy or install anything you need on the built-in image.

One minor disadvantage of the "new" version (the one that stores the disk image in the User Library) is that isn't fully portable - if you make changes to the disk image, you can't simply copy the app to another machine, but will need to export the disk image on the current machine and import it on the other machine. But this seems a minor inconvenience.
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Jubadub

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Re: Sheepshaver enhanced = MacOS9 App
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2025, 03:37:45 AM »

If we ported the SDL 1.2 version of SheepShaver to run UNDER Mac OS 9.2.2, I'd be all over this. Definitely something to try eventually, although I expect it to be a rather involved process.

Reason being I could access some 9.0.4 apps without leaving my main 9.2.2 host environment. (Especially when we can't boot into Mac OS 9.0.4, such as in the case of the Mac mini G4.)
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emendelson

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Re: Sheepshaver enhanced = MacOS9 App
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2025, 07:01:35 AM »

Unless anyone finds problems, I've finished the work I plan to do on an alternate version of the Mac OS 9 app for macOS - a new version that keeps the disk images in the user's Library folder so that you can update the app without exporting and importing your disk images. Same download link as in the post two posts above this one.

I've added an option that copies the disk images back into the app so that you can then take the app to aother system. If you've created an additional disk or a user-specific disk, you'll have to back them up and then copy them separately to the new system. I've started building a framework for copying them into the app, but it's probably not worth the effort to complete it.

If this version interests you, please let me know of any problems with it. I'm not sure I want to replace the original self-contained version with this one, and it might make sense to make both available.
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