It seems to be a day for nostalgia. As Woz & the original Apple I team got together, the Internet Archive has put online a web-based emulator of the original Macintosh from 1984.
The emulator allows you to run a wide range of early Macintosh software, from the MacWrite and MacPaint apps supplied with the machine through games like Lemmings and Frogger to early Microsoft apps like Multiplan and Chart. It even runs Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.02!
Whether you’re old enough to enjoy a wander down memory lane, or want to see what life was like for the Mac pioneers, the emulator is a really fun experience in all its 9-inch black-and-white glory!
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For me, it was fascinating to re-use the machine I first used to write for the early computer magazines back in 1984. The original version of MacWrite could store up to eight pages, so longer pieces had to be written in sections. If you had only the single built-in floppy drive, you would have to constantly swap system disk, MacWrite and data disk. But WYSIWYG editing was miraculous in the days when other machines used codes for things like ^bbold^b and ^iitalics^i.
You can run the emulator by clicking on any of the software found here. Be patient, though, as it has to download the necessary files before loading, then everything runs at real-life speeds. Switching between normal size and full-screen is also a little flakey, so best to do that before you start using an app.
Developer(s) | Christian Bauer, Gwenole Beauchesne |
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Initial release | 1998; 21 years ago |
Stable release | 2.3 pre / May 14, 2006; 13 years ago |
Preview release | |
Repository | |
Operating system | BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
Type | Emulator |
License | GPL |
Website | sheepshaver.cebix.net |
SheepShaver is an open-sourcePowerPCApple Macintoshemulator originally designed for BeOS and Linux. The name is a play on ShapeShifter,[1] a Macintosh II emulator for AmigaOS (made obsolete by Basilisk II), which is in turn not to be confused with a third-party preference pane for Mac OS X with the same name. The ShapeShifter and SheepShaver projects were originally conceived and programmed by Christian Bauer. However, currently, the main developer behind SheepShaver is Gwenolé Beauchesne.
History[edit]
SheepShaver was originally commercial software when first released in 1998, but after the demise of Be Inc., the maker of BeOS, it became open source in 2002.[2] It can be run on both PowerPC and x86 systems; however, it runs more slowly on an x86 system than on a PowerPC system, because of the translation between the PowerPC and Intel x86 instruction sets.[3] SheepShaver has also been ported to Microsoft Windows.[citation needed]
As a free software, a few variants exist to simplify the installation process on Intel-based Macs:
- ‘Sheep Shaver Wrapper’[4] is built off of Sheep Shaver but it does some of the bundling work for the user.
- 'Chubby Bunny'[5] also simplifies the set up process of OS 9 visualization on Intel Macs running OS X.
Features[edit]
SheepShaver is capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4[6] (though it needs the image of an Old World ROM to run Mac OS 8.1 or below[7]), and can be run inside a window so that the user can run classic Mac OS and either BeOS, Intel-based Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows applications at the same time.
Although SheepShaver does have Ethernet support and CD-quality sound output,[8] it does not emulate the memory management unit.[9] While adding MMU emulation has been discussed, the feature has not been added because of the effort required in implementing it, the impact on performance it will have and the lack of time on the part of the developers.
See also[edit]
History
References[edit]
- ^'The Official SheepShaver Homepage'. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ^'The Official SheepShaver Homepage'. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ^'SheepShaver (wayback machine)'. Archived from the original on March 1, 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
- ^'The SheepShaver Wrapper for OS X'. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^'The SheepShaver Wrapper for OS X'. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
- ^'The Official SheepShaver Homepage'. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ^'Setting up SheepShaver for Windows'. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ^'The Official SheepShaver Homepage'. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ^'SheepShaver (wayback machine)'. Archived from the original on March 1, 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
External links[edit]
![Best Mac Os 9 Emulator Best Mac Os 9 Emulator](/uploads/1/2/5/3/125309635/422152198.jpg)
- SheepShaver for x86(in Japanese)
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