Hey everyone,

So, I wanted to emulate OS9 to play the Mac versions of Sim City and Wolfenstein (a beloved favorite of mine) but I'm having great difficulty with SheepShaver. I've followed the directions to the letter, even found a great tutorial on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqgw4z_r2sE I've downloaded the rom, renamed it "Mac OS ROM," got the OS9 image and still did everything correctly (so it seems) but when I quit SheepShaver, it gives me the blinking ? again.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Do not follow the tutorial in that YouTube movie if you use a system install disk image. That tutorial is largely based on my manual, but it confuses a system install disk image with a installed system disk image. Hence the advice to not follow my directions to lock the system disk. A system install disk must be locked, a installed system disk should not be locked.

Which build of SheepShaver do you use? What kind of OS9 image do you use?


When you quit SheepShaver? You mean that it works, but after quitting it does not work when you launch SheepShaver again? If you use a system install disk image, did you install the system? If you used a installed system disk image, did you possibly remove that volume from the list? A system install disk image should be removed after installing the system (as described in my manual), a installed system disk image should of course not be removed (unless the system is copied to another volume).

I used the 11 Feb 2012 build of SheepSaver and the OS9 image found on Redudantrobot.com. I'm either missing a step or something. Because the ROM I'm using is correct, SheepShaver recognizes something is there, it's the disk image that's the problem. I think.

The "OS9.img" image from Redundant Robot is an image with installed system folder (not a complete OS9 installation, just the System Folder). That image file needs to be added to the volumes list in SheepShaver preferences. When launched again, SheepShaver should startup from that image. (The image should not be opened and mounted in OSX!)

If SheepShaver does not start up from the OS9 volume, either the path to the image is not correctly entered in the volumes list in SheepShaver, or something is wrong with the OS9.img file.

The image is too small for additional software installation, so you will need to create another, much larger, volume (disk image) in SheepShaver preferences. You can use that second volume to install additional software, or you can copy the System Folder to that larger new volume and remove the original OS9 volume from the list to make the new volume the startup disk.

If you copy the System Folder, make sure the copied folder shows its specific icon. If it does not, open the folder to show to the Finder that it contains the System and Finder files. After closing the folder again it will show the System Folder icon. (That is called "blessing the System Folder".)