Good news. I Installed macOS Sierra public beta 6 on an early 2009 iMac (*) and it seems that SheepShaver runs fine without any issues yet in 32bit mode (64bit mode isn't working). So unless something unexpectedly changes in the final release of macOS Sierra we can still use SheepShaver on the lates...

Based on your current setup, I'm tempted to suggest putting this off until things actually break, Seems to me a very good advice for now. Things run in OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) and may still run in OSX 10.12. Apple will support 10.11 until 10.13 is released. That will give us at least two years respi...

adespoton wrote:. . . Your choices for running Classic Mac PPC software are currently:
SheepShaver running 9.0.4 (either inside VirtualBox or on the host)
Using a PowerPC Mac running 10.4.11 or earlier . . .

Thx for the explanation.

Wim

> what I'm really suggesting is running OS X 10.6 inside VirtualBox, and run SheepShaver/9.0.4 inside that. This way, the only thing that needs to keep support going is VirtualBox Am I right in thinking with VirtualBox it is also possible to use OSX 10.4 (Tiger) skip Sheepshaver and use the build i...

Installed OS X El Capitan (10.11) public beta 1 (plus the additional beta update to solve 32bit issues with some apps) on an external HD. Fortunately SheepShaver is working flawless for me :-) More info about the OSX El Capitan beta: http://forums.macrumors.com/forums/os-x-el-capitan-10-11.184/ Off ...

Hello Ronald and Cat_7,

Thanks for your support.

I solved the issues by rebuild LaunchServices.
After this SheepShaver.sheepvm runs fine with latest build 2.4 (01-02-2014) in 32 bit mode

Best,
Wim

I have a couple of issues with OSX Yosemite Beta. When I try to launch SheepShaver.sheepvm with SheepShaver 2.4 (2014-02-01) inside the bundle the app refuses to start up. I can however launch an older version, SheepShaver 2.3 (2009-10-25) outside the bundle and then all works fine (SheepShaver then...

Was "Rebuilding LaunchServices" among the default options? The issue could well have been with a corrupted LaunchServices database. Hello Ronald, Yes, both LaunchServices and dyld's shared cache where rebuild by OnyX, other files like logs, caches and temp files where deleted. I agree tha...

UPDATE:

Issue is solved.
I used the diagnostic tool OnyX (version 2.8.1 for Mavericks) and run all default options as set in the Automation section.
After the cleaning and rebuilding of stuff and a computer reboot all is now fine and SheepShaver runs as before without error messages

Wim

It sounds like some of the metadata in the SheepVM bundle itself has been corrupted; possibly it hadn't all been written back to the drive prior to ejecting. Your best bet is probably to build a new SheepVM and move the disk image over to the new one. Thanks for your suggestion, it was one of the t...

Hello Forum, I hope someone knows how to tackle an issue I have with SheepShaver.sheepvm. SheepShaver.sheepvm is installed on a USB flash drive, when after use I removed the USB disk I didn't pay attention that OSX was still busy with dismounting it from the desktop and I got the warning from OSX th...

A long time ago I give up printing in SheepShaver/OS9 due to many problems. Since I use the OS8/9 extension PrintToPdf (I am sure it is somewhere on the net) to print. In the prefs of PrintToPdf I have set that the output of PrintToPdf, a PDF document, must be created in the UNIX shared folder so wh...

Ronald, I just tried the USB disk on another OSX machine without SheepShaver on that machine and all worked fine instantly without the need of patching anything. I think this is because the path to the USB disk is OK regardless the computer it is hooked on because it start with /volumes/NameOfUsbDis...

edit, making a folder on the USB disk and setting it as a Shared-UNIX folder is working fine, the path of the UNIX folder is set as: /volumes/NameOfUsbDisk/NameOfSharedUnixFolder Hello Ronald, Thanks again for your help. Just a last question about the shared UNIX folder, is their any reason why it w...

Hello Ronald, Thanks a lot for your explanation, I have no doubts that it will work fine :-) I have just one question about the prefs file, will it also be OK if I copy the invisible prefs file in my home folder to the package and then just modify the path to the new location of the files inside the...

Hello, For many years I am using SheepShaver successfuly to run HyperCards stacks with SheepShaver. I now have to put all HyperCard stacks on a USB flash disk (formatted for OSX, journaled) and run them from there. The USB disk is mounted in OSX and I must be able to run HyperCard with SheepShaver f...

Hello Ronald, I can confirm that the 25-10-2009 build solved the startup issue on my MBP and the app I use most (HyperCard) is running fine :-) I am supprised that the startup problem is not solved for cdorje because we has the same machine and OSX ..... BTW, I am running OS9.0 in SheepShaver. Wim. ...

Hello mschmidtt, I disabled the experimental 68K dynamic compilation emulator but the app keeps quiting at start up. I also disabled all extemsions for loading (shift key trick) but that didn't help. if there is a SIGSEGV dump with an execution address around 0x48000000, then that is a sign that som...

Some additional info:

Each time after a unexpected quit a file "PPC.log" is created in the parent forlder of the app.
The log file is empty and when it is deleted it is build again after next quiting of the app.

Hello Ronald,

I can confirm that version 26-07-2009 start up fine, so no problems with this version on my MBP.
There are no memory related issues, ram disks or not standard RAM installed.

Hope this info helps to solve the problem.

Wim

Hello Ronald, As suggested I tried also with extensions disabled but this didn't help. I didn't install the 26-07-2009 version because (I can be wrong) this version was mainly build to make it possible to use the bundled versions. What I can do is to try a revised version later when it is available ...

Hello Ronald,

Thanks for helping.
The MacBookPro is a duo core Intel Mac so not a PPC machine...
Anyway, in case you want to check out the Log I saved the console output, here it is:
http://www.dmmdh.nl/screenshots/Console ... es.log.zip

Best,
Wim

Hello Howard, Thanks for your fast reply. I also tried a window size of 1024x768 and later also with disabled QuickDraw but all with the same result. I guess it is a system or hardware issue because on my iMac Intel with the same prefs, same MacOSHD.dmg diskimage but with OSX 10.6.1, the build is ru...

Hello Ronald, Thanks for the new 18102009 build. Unfortunately on my MacBookPro (first version) with OSX 10.5.8 the app quits when starting up (see the screenshot just before it quits). With the build of 19032009 all is fine. Here are some screenshots, perhaps they are of any help. http://www.dmmdh....

Hello Ronald,

Thanks for the explanation.
Because I only need to run SheepShaver for a single Classic app (HyperCard) I think there is no benefitt for me to run multiple VM's (at least for know).

Wim