New to the world of MAC emulators. Have SheepShaver, the 01/03/2015 build running with MAC OS 9.0.4. My platform is 64 bit Windows 8.1 on a fast Intel CPU/MB with 8GB RAM. First of all, what an awesome achievement !!!
Some initial questions:
Booting OS 9 with the Old World ROM works, and the OS seems zippier. Other than running PPC apps, are there benefits to the New World Rom?
Antivirus. A couple of games I found were infected with nvir, which Disinfectant 3.7.1 cleaned. Do folks use a realtime AV program like Norton on the images they run?
Extensions. My OS 9.0 build is a full install. Are there extensions / Control Panels that can or should be disabled using the Extensions Manager? Looking for improved stability mostly.
Thanks again
Beginner questions
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Re: Beginner questions
The old/new has to do with how the PPC Macs were configured (static ROM vs OpenFirmware ROM). Everything we're talking about in SheepShaver is PPC, 68k Macs run under Basilisk II.Dave_O wrote:New to the world of MAC emulators. Have SheepShaver, the 01/03/2015 build running with MAC OS 9.0.4. My platform is 64 bit Windows 8.1 on a fast Intel CPU/MB with 8GB RAM. First of all, what an awesome achievement !!!
Some initial questions:
Booting OS 9 with the Old World ROM works, and the OS seems zippier. Other than running PPC apps, are there benefits to the New World Rom?
So the only benefit to using a new world ROM is that it's freely available (you can get a number of Apple updates that contain the ROM file), whereas an Old World ROM needs to be dumped from a functioning Mac.
As long as you're running Disinfectant Init, you should be fine. If you're paranoid, run Gatekeeper as well -- it's a heuristcs-based extension pair for Mac OS. Don't bother with NAV.Dave_O wrote:Antivirus. A couple of games I found were infected with nvir, which Disinfectant 3.7.1 cleaned. Do folks use a realtime AV program like Norton on the images they run?
You *can* scan from your host using an A/V package that 1) scans inside HFS disk images and 2) detects legacy Mac malware. Pretty much any scanner on OS X will do that; I don't know of any free scanners for Windows 8 that do it.
For the last one, you'll probably want to scour the discussion threads here. Some things that come to mind are: get the right version of Quicktime and disable your sound/monitors extensions. A/ROSE etc. shouldn't be on OS 9 in the first place, so won't be an issue.Dave_O wrote:Extensions. My OS 9.0 build is a full install. Are there extensions / Control Panels that can or should be disabled using the Extensions Manager? Looking for improved stability mostly.
Thanks again
Re: Beginner questions
Thanks