Ah, excellent point! I checked my BII emulation and I've got it running with 512 mb, but most of it's not even being used!

Thanks for the steps, Mabam! And your Icon extraction is a brilliant idea! I just tend to look for custom icons to spruce up application icons like this.

@Adespoton: thanks for that! I hadn't thought of all the layers of emulation; the program is a cross-platform Mac program, so it's more the ...

You can allow Wine to create a shortcut on your Mac desktop.


Thanks for outlining all the steps for me and others, Mabam! :)

I was going to try what you said but wasn't sure how to go about it (I thought one needed to add a Wine program to the macOS Dock by using a Wine bottling app like ...

I'm hoping I won't get chewed-out for posting any Wine-related Qs here; it's actually a pretty simple question with a hopefully easy answer?

I found Wine for Mac that runs 32 bit Windows applications on 64 bit only Macs here:

Main GitHub: https://github.com/Gcenx/wine-on-mac
Wine Releases ...

You can also run it with VM enabled under Mac OS 9 if you set memory to 1022MB -- Virtual Memory gets disabled if you have 1024MB or more.


That's such a brilliant move! So this makes all applications need less RAM automatically, right? (and probably a few more benefits IIRC) I wonder if this is ...

As Adespoton pointed out, you may or may not need to keep the game's CD-ROM mounted on your Mac to play it, so I'd definitely try that first. Other than that, when all else fails and I get completely stuck like this, I'll sometimes create a new boot volume and reinstall the OS then the program that ...

Hey! Programmers had no clue just how far their software would be pushed decades later—thanks for offering solid perspective to the real problem "under-the-hood" Adespoton! :smile: my solutions were more operational observations—crashes and freezes which virtually simmered down to a minimum by ...

Thanks, Adespoton! And yes, all thanks to Emendelson and these truly exceptional 8.1 SheepShaver builds; you have no idea how long I waited for something like this! I detailed the issues with both audio programs to see if perhaps I goofed up something. Plus emendelson includes OtherMenu in all his ...

Office'98/2001 in SheepShaver for macOS both fail to open for me, but SheepShaver for Windows running Mac OS 9.0.4 become more stable w/Office '98 and 2001 by disabling their animated assistants . This works until you close one of the applications, Office 2001 tends to freeze SheepShaver then, and ...

Here are the two Office suites that work in SheepShaver as well as Basilisk II:

· Office 3, released in '92, includes Word 5.1a
· Office 4.2, released in '94, includes Word 6.0

I've installed Office 4.2 into both your Mac OS 8.1 Basilisk II and SheepShaver macOS builds, as well as your Windows Mac ...

For Mac OS 8, I'm blown away at these PowerPC Mac builds—they both fly! After installing the latest Mac/Win versions, I installed the latest PPC versions of Apple's QuickTime 5 and AppleWorks 6, and I'm super happy to report that both programs work flawlessly on the final builds — truly exceptional ...

Thanks for reposting it! :smile: Internet's working great using these three PPC web browsers on both your latest builds:

· Opera 5.0
· Netscape 4.8
· Internet Explorer 5.1.7—1st dl works fine on windows, but on the mac build, all IE versions—even 4.0.1—refuse to go online

This link lists ...

Phew, perfect timing! :smile: I just installed it (I had misplaced my laptop, so I only got to install your latest Windows version!) and it’s working like a charm so far! I’ll install the updated Mac version as well and give it a spin, too! :mrgreen: it feels like Christmas came early!

I just can't ...

Wow, I was heading to bed and just saw this! once I awaken for the day a little later, I'll definitely give it a spin and let you know how it runs! I can't wait now—thank you so much!

Thank you and no worries! :smile: outside of Windows installs, my Mac emulation journey began in earnest when I ran Mac OS 8.1 on my first hybrid Chromebook, the ASUS Flip C100PA with Play Store running a now-decommissioned Android port of Basilisk II roughly between 2016-2018, so just knowing you ...

Thank you for exploring this! Wow: so it almost sounds like the same ROM on macOS had no issue but it did on Windows? :shock: but, Cat_7’s explanation sounds like what I understood about early PPC Macs, whereas OS 9 needs New World ROMs (I think? from what I recall, SheepShaver includes a ROM with ...

Thank you so much for even looking into it and no worries; I totally get it! :mrgreen: I was just beside myself when I saw any (keyword “networkable” PowerPC OS 8.1 emulator, one that isn’t based on Basilisk II! I thought to myself “wow! someone finally nailed it!” OS 9 rules for so much only it can ...

Thank you so much for this, Ed! :mrgreen:

You know, that's such a shame but I'm just as guilty as the rest of us to benefit from some pretty darn awesome offerings like your ready-to-go emulators on both OSes, so I'll be more than happy to send you something now just for enjoying all the hard work ...

That's great news! I was looking for your SheepShaver versions but only found ones for Mac OS 8.1 running Basilisk II. Are your Mac and Windows Mac OS 8.1 links for SheepShaver elsewhere on the website? TIA!

Ah, no, I just had the main installer! I hope I can find where to install them within Fusion, but if they're installed separately, then I'm out of luck :sad: and Ai lied to me saying RustDesk doesn't need metal, which I did half doubt and began to think it must based on those same lines, but let me ...

Hi all!

I tried running RustDesk 1.4.0 and got several errors on my 2014 mini running Monterey and Fusion 13.5.2 on a Mojave VM:



If anyone is familiar with Terminal output or this scenario, I'd love to get it going like Google Remote Desktop on my VM. Might I need an older version for it to ...

Thanks for the background info on this! :) I did download the PPC QEMU version from here (I think?) trusting it would yield the best options and results all around. I tried to find or manually work-in some 16:9-friendly resolutions, and saw that adding -g only did exactly what you said it does, Cat ...

This is fantastic news indeed! :) I can't wait to install the updated Windows QEMU PPC build once it's ready; thanks to everyone working on this!!

I did have a little side question on resolutions:
I thought QEMU PPC supported multiple resolutions in 9.2.2? I tried -g width x height x depth, -full ...

Here's a quick sound tip I was helped with on the Android version of Basilisk II, but may also help out elsewhere:

For System 7.0-7.1 (at least) the trick to getting the audio to work was installing the Sound Manager, which is automatically installed with QuickTime, I installed QT 2.5 and the audio ...

I've never compiled anything before! I can at least get the word out and see if I can find someone with the tools and a little more know-how in packaging apps. I've coded websites and done some java scripting, but nothing like this. There's a reason I work with Macs :oops: :shock:

I'm excited that ...