SheepShaver on MacOS X

I used following steps to install MacOS 8.6 on SheepShaver on MacOS 10.6 (Intel).

Notes:

  1. You will need a MacOS 8.5 CD from which to extract the Mac OS ROM. [1]

Steps:

  1. Download the latest Universal Binary Build of SheepShaver: [2]

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~ronaldpr/sheepshaverforum/SheepShaver_UB_20091025.zip

  2. Mount a MacOS 8.5 CD and copy the MacOS ROM located in the System Folder of the MacOS 8.5 CD to the SheepShaver Folder. The path for the Mac OS ROM file should be:

    /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ 8.5/System\ Folder/Mac\ OS\ ROM

  3. Launch SheepShaver and follow Ronald P. Regensburg's setup instructions. [3]

  4. Download and install the MacOS 8.5.1 Update: [4]

    http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.5.1_Update/

  5. Download and install the MacOS 8.6 Update:

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60283

  6. Download and install Carbon Lib 1.6:

    http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Other_System/CarbonLib_1.6.smi.bin

  7. Download and install the Font Manager Update 1.0:

    http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Other_System/Font_Manager_Update_1.0.smi.bin

  8. Download and install QuickTime 4.1.2: [5]

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120082

Additional Software

  1. Nice alternate sheep icons are available in Julia Nikolaeva's "The Farm" and "Aries" icon sets. I prefer the sheep icon from "The Farm" because it works in Mac OS 8.6 as well as Mac OS X.

    The Farm: http://www.flameia.com/ipack/farm.sit
    Aries: http://www.flameia.com/ipack/aries.sit

  2. Joilet File System Extension: [6] http://www.tempel.org/joliet/

  3. Mozilla 1.3.1: http://wamcom.org/latest-131/

  4. Stuffit Lite 6.5: http://www.info-mac.org/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=1233

  5. Disk Copy 6.3: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/

Footnotes

[1] For other ways to extra a Mac OS ROM, see SheepShaver v2.2 Installation and User's Guide (Linux), Rom File Extraction How-To.

[2] Ronald P. Regensbrug, SheepShaver UB build for Mac OS X 25-10-2009 available, E-Maculation Forums (Oct. 19, 2009); see also Matt Newburg, SheepShaver Brings Classic Mac OS to Snow Leopard, TidBITS (Oct. 23, 2009).

[3] Ronald P. Regensburg, SheepShaver Setup Manual for Mac OS X (Tiger or Leopard), E-Maculation (Nov. 4, 2009). It is probably better to create a HFS volume instead of a HFS+ volume because some self-mounting images (.smi) will not mount on HFS+ volumes. Alternatively, one can make a small HFS volume on which to copy such images. Also, to play Star Trek 25th Anniversary or Star Trek Judgment Rights, it may be necessary to enable the "Ignore Illegal Memory Accesses" option in SheepShaver's preferences. See Space Cadet, Star Trek Judgment Rights CD, E-Maculation Forum (Oct. 15, 2007).

[4] Although the MacOS 8.6 Update should install over MacOS 8.5, installing the MacOS 8.5.1 Update first seems to work better.

[5] QuickTime 4.1.2 is the most recent version of QuickTime that works under SheepShaver. See Peter Holbrook, QuickTime, E-Maculation Forums (May 17, 2008).

[6] See Space Cadet, Multi Disc Games, DVDs, Initialize Disc Fix: TUTORIAL, E-Maculation Forums (Oct. 6, 2007).

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