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! What's new in SheepShaver 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).
That is, it enables you to run PowerPC Classic Mac OS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. And thats a commercial product.SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC Mac OS run-time environment. Years have passed since the introduction of VPC and it is still performing slow on current machines.
There is no much harm done, real hardware > emulation. Not everyone is downloading PPC emulation software of source forge, and how they acquired the OSX CDs then is also questionable)
Maybe some PC users get a (small) taste of Mac OSX and get curious how it will perform on the real machine. Maybe we shouldn't see this developement in such a negative light.
I mean, OSX is all about style, useability or if you get one of the pro machines, its all about high performance applications, which require high processing power. Personally I am left in the dark of its usefullness. But it is still a big step forward, months ago PPC emulators were considered as impossible. Currently, I am creating a HD image of my system, but I from several reports I gathered the performance is as worse as trying to run OSX on a 68K system (currently no harm is done to our favourite enterprise with the fruit shaped logo). Well, I still have to smile after I've "seen" people asking for advanced features like implementing altivec 2 support. I believe this kind of emulation is (really) far from perfect.