The most commonly run emulators for older Macintosh systems are SheepShaver and Basilisk II, both of which I have used before to emulate System 7 just for fun. The first thing I did was to look around online for other people’s experiences with emulating Mac OS 9. (the last version of Photoshop I purchased). Not to mention I could then also run Photoshop 6 again. Plus, I figured I could really jack up the specs on the emulator which would allow me to play a few more games that my iMac won’t run (it only has 64 MB of RAM). I decided to try to emulate Mac OS 9 on my MacBook Pro so that I wouldn’t always have to start the iMac whenever I felt like playing Age of Empires, Civilization III, the original Tomb Raider or Railroad Tycoon II. Whenever I sit in frontend of that old CRT screen listening to it hum, I always feel a bit like I did back then when I was in school and using AppleWorks on one of these colorful machines to type up my homework - usually some essay first written by hand.īut I digress. ROM, see SheepShaver v2.Emulation cannot, of course, replace the experience of actually using the iMac though since it doesn’t give you the full immersion experience of using an authentically vintage computer. Document Viewers / Players (Postscript, PDF, JPEG, sound files, etc.). Replacement hard drive icons from MacOS 8 and 9 for the default System 7 I prefer the sheep icon from "The Farm" because it works in Nice alternate sheep icons are available in Julia Nikolaeva's "The Farm" and "Aries" icon sets: Printer's IP address should now appear in the "LPR PrinterĬlick the "Create." button to create the printer. If the printer has a specific queue enter it in the text boxĬlick the "Verify" button to verify that the printer and queue In the next dialog, entitled "Internet Printer," enter the IPĪddress of the printer in the text box labeled "Printer Address." Printer Description (PPD) File" box, keep the "Generic" In the next dialog, click the "Change." button in the boxĮntitled "LPR Printer Selection." In the "PostScript™ Select "LaserWriter 8" and "Printer (LPR)" for the printer type, Not appear, Select the "New" option from the "File" menu or pressĬmd-N to make the "New Desktop Printer" it appear. The "New Desktop Printer" window should appear. "Apple Extras:Apple LaserWriter Software" folder of the SheepShaver Launch the Desktop Printer Utility, which should be located in the Holding down Option-Command to rebuild the Desktop files, generally I prefer toĭelete the Desktop files using Trash Desktop 1.3.1 and then restarting.Įnable Printing to a LPR Printer (Optional) To delete the Desktopįiles, as mentioned in the preceding technical note, follow the instructions inĪnd icon recovery technical note. Not Find a Translation Extension" Message technical note. To fix this error,įollow the instructions in Apple's Mac OS: "Could (Optional) Sometimes, after installing MacOS, when clicking on particularįiles, an error message stating that MacOS "Could to find a translationĮxtension with appropriate translators" may appear. Order to play games such as Master of Orion II.ĭownload and install the MacOS 8.6 Update:ĭownload and install the Font Manager Update 1.0: The "Allow Emulated CPU to Idle" option in SheepShaver's preferences in Such as Star Trek 25th Anniversary or Star Trek Judgment Rights. It may be necessary to enable the "Ignore Illegal MemoryĪccesses" option in SheepShaver's preferences in order to play games It may be best to create a sparse bundle and copy SheepShaver's volume To make SheepShaver's volume more Time Machine friendly, Alternatively, oneĬan make a small HFS volume on which to copy such images. Images (.smi) will not mount on HFS volumes. Volume for SheepShaver's main hard drive because some self-mounting It is probably better to create a HFS volume
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