Hi Gang!

I am thinking about trying sheepsvaer to run a Mac 9.0 application thats talks to a scanner through a GPIB interface (IEEE-488). The program also has to chat with a dongle on the old ADB bus. I'm runing this on a 'nwere' (lol) PowerMac G3? (Digital Audio) with PCI slots which contain both the GPIB board, and an Imate ADB to USB adaptor, as this machine doesn't have ADB.

Anyone know if I can access these devices through a sheepshaver interface, running OS 9.0? I think that OSX has some 'features' that allow, for example, the classic window to "Take control" of the imate adaptor, but would this functionality be available for sheepshaver?

I'm not sure if there would be any advantage in runing sheepshaver versus just trying to get the program to run in classic mode (OSX 10.4), any thoughts?

Also, if I can find the necessary windows device drivers for these two devices, any chance of the same running in the windows environment using the windows version of sheepshaver? I'd probably run the thing under windows 7 64 bit. There are Windows GPIB drivers out there - not sure about the imate though....

John

Hi, welcome to the forum.

I'm sorry to inform you that SheepShaver most probably can't help you in the scenario you describe. Support for real hardware is very limited. No USB support, and only very limited suppor for the old serial ports to the lpt and serial ports in Windows. And hardware connected to other (internal) busses is not supported at all. The ADB is emulated, but only to support your host mouse/keyboard. Mac OS in SheepShaver doesn't see other devices on that bus.

Best,
Cat_7

OK great - you saved me some time! I'll try running this thing in a Classic window under OS 10.4.