If they drop support for 32bit, then the Sheep is cooked. :sad: Is SheepShaver still needed when it's possible to run most Mac OS Versions using QEmu? So far, yes. It isn't yet possible to run pre-10.2 in QEmu; and even when it is, the speed and functionality will be significantly different than wh...

I'm curious: what exactly are people requiring 9.2.2 for? 9.0.4 was the last real update to OS 9 -- the 9.1 and 9.2 updates were mostly for classic mode compatibility. That's not quite right; the last "real" update to OS 9 was 9.1, whose codename was "Fortissimo" — i.e. go out w...

Domestic sheep don't shed their wool the way wild sheep would The only sheep that have this problem are ones that have been bred to provide humans with wool -- the ones we shear :) Yep, wild sheep shed their wool every so often to avoid looking like Shrek up there. Domesticated varieties don't need...

No, shaving the wool isn't to make them light on their feet, it is to make the sheep herder some money, sonny!!! :mrgreen: Well... both, really. Domestic sheep don't shed their wool the way wild sheep would, so if you don't shear them, they end up looking like this: http://lh4.ggpht.com/-8J5AXbQ-oL...

One thought about Shoebill that makes me hope someone else might pursue it: There seems to be a real chance that Basilisk and SheepShaver will be unusable in future OS X versions. Shoebill may turn out to be the only practical way to run System 7-era applications and games under OS X. That's certai...

Wikipedia claims it was 1984, as does the copyright date in the About panel for the app itself.

I'd vote for putting Enchanted Scepters on that list.

The "format" for an uncompressed disk image is just the raw bits and bytes of the disk copied straight into a file. If you copy the bytes straight from /dev/rdiskN to a file, you've basically just made an uncompressed disk image. Actually, you can actually create a completely empty file co...

Ah, sorry about that. I forgot that hdiutil (which I use to attach the image so that I can run fsck on it) is fussy about filename extensions. I've updated the app, which should now disallow any filename extension that hdiutil doesn't recognize.

Reading from an uncompressed NDIF image would be pretty easy to do, given that I've already done most of the work for this project. The trouble is that some of them are compressed, and the compression algorithms used are proprietary. Reading those would require reverse-engineering the algorithms (an...

The reverse would certainly be possible, but since OS X still has read support for HFS images, it doesn't seem necessary to me, as you can just double-click the image and drag its contents out via the Finder. However, if there is enough demand for it, I may end up doing it. The code is all in Object...

This is a pretty old project that's been sitting on my back burner, 95% complete, for a long time. I finally decided to dust it off and complete it, and at the present time it seems to be working pretty well. http://www.charlessoft.com/HFS_Disk_Maker.zip This is an app which will let you easily crea...

Nice to know that someone may be working on this. For me, the biggest performance-related problem with SheepShaver has always been sound. Quite often, sound playback is extremely choppy in SheepShaver. However, it appears to be related only to certain code paths, since playing a sound file in the Fi...

Start up the emulator with the Command and Option keys down until it asks you whether you'd like to rebuild the Desktop. Do the rebuild for all your normal disks (but not for the Unix disk, since I don't think that will work).

I’d say your problem is that you used .tgz compression to archive the files. Tar archives don’t preserve Mac-specific information such as resource forks and type/creator codes.

It is rather the other way around. Someone contributed a patch to improve audio performance that now seems to have the opposite effect. We are only reversing the effect so the old state is restored. That’s because what that patch did was to increase the number of samples in SDL/audio_sdl.cpp to 163...

I have found that if you download the source and edit SDL/audio_sdl.cpp to reduce the number of samples to something low like 2048 (the default is 16384), the sound will be a lot smoother, but the overall speed of the emulation will be reduced. It seems to be due to a bug in the audio layer somewher...

I got it to compile on Ubuntu a while ago, but as soon as I try to run it it immediately crashed with a segfault. There's a lot of configuration settings to twiddle around with, though, so there might be a way to get it to work if one expends enough time and patience. Unfortunately, I'm a bit busy a...

Betatester's problem is not unique. I, too, have found that trying to launch Folio Views hangs SheepShaver when running under OS X, even if it is the latest CVS build. There's no bomb box, and nothing gets logged to the console - it just hangs. However - it is not the SheepShaver app itself that han...

Here's the equivalent changes for BasiliskII, if someone would like to test them to make sure they work on Tiger too: Index: configure.ac =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/cebix/BasiliskII/src/Unix/configure.ac,v retrieving revision 1.73 diff -r1...

Well, it's been over two weeks, and I still haven't heard from either Bauer or Beauchesne, nor have the changes been incorporated into CVS, so it might be a good idea to make this thread a sticky so people in the future will know how to compile SheepShaver on Leopard should they wish to do so. In ca...

It seems that it has been common opinion that it is not possible to build SheepShaver under Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard), because it starts bailing out partway in with an error about mysig_t being undeclared (along with a few other errors). It is actually quite simple to fix this. After running the ./c...