Mac OS 9 Discussion > Emulation

has anyone explored "sheepshaver"?

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adespoton:
Bumping an old thread to provide some more (and newer) details.

SheepShaver achieves its speed by doing a lot of work outside the emulated environment.  This means it's fast for the vast majority of software that is only doing standard things (no GPU, no external hardware of any sort like MIDI, etc), but won't do anything else.

There are new versions of SheepShaver out now that use SDL2, and are more stable/capable, but they still have the same limitations on hardware support.  It also still only supports up to Mac OS 9.0.4.  This is not likely to change.  Useful for playing old games, transferring software to HFS disk images for old PPC computers, networking with old PPC computers.

The place to be exploring for a more realistic environment to run Mac OS 9 is QEMU-PPC.  This properly supports external hardware interfaces including USB; GPU is still a work in progress (virtual ATi Rage 128 support is ongoing, support of existing host machine Rage hardware works).

The caveat here is that you need a fast machine to get MIDI clock sync to not drift too much over time.  Real hardware is still better.

smilesdavis:
can someone twear qemu to adress digidesign mix core and mix farm cards ? :D

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