SS quits on startup (sorry!)
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:40 pm
I'm sorry to have to post this, because I see the internet seems to be filled with many examples of this question and I'm sure I'm not adding to the corpus. But it seems I have followed the instructions and the app still quits on startup. I'm on a trashcan Mac Pro running 11.3.
Following the "builds and downloads" post pinned to the top of this forum, I downloaded the latest 2.5 April SS build and the SheepShaver folder. I placed the SS folder in my home directory and copied the SS app into the SS folder.
Following the "Setting up SheepShaver for OSX/macOS" I went to Macintosh Garden and downloaded MacOS904CD_Intl.ZIP. Extracting that results in a file called Mac OS 9-2.toast, which I copied into the SS folder "beside" SS app. I have also tried it within the Shared folder as one YT video suggested.
I tried to follow the guide's suggestion to go to "redundant robot sheepshaver" and grabbed both new and old-world ROMs I took the new-world, renamed it "Mac OS ROM" and placed that in the SS folder as well. It is 1.9 MB and called newworld86.rom, is that correct?
So far, have I successfully followed the guide?
I then opened the SS app. It gave me the warning about being from the 'net, I said OK, and then it immediately exits.
Reading the guide, it appears this implies it is having problems finding the ROM or it is the wrong version. I tried the old-world ROM (mac_oldworld_rom4mb, ~4 MB?) and that did not work either.
Please tell me I missed a step somewhere? If not, is there any way to debug this?
Following the "builds and downloads" post pinned to the top of this forum, I downloaded the latest 2.5 April SS build and the SheepShaver folder. I placed the SS folder in my home directory and copied the SS app into the SS folder.
Following the "Setting up SheepShaver for OSX/macOS" I went to Macintosh Garden and downloaded MacOS904CD_Intl.ZIP. Extracting that results in a file called Mac OS 9-2.toast, which I copied into the SS folder "beside" SS app. I have also tried it within the Shared folder as one YT video suggested.
I tried to follow the guide's suggestion to go to "redundant robot sheepshaver" and grabbed both new and old-world ROMs I took the new-world, renamed it "Mac OS ROM" and placed that in the SS folder as well. It is 1.9 MB and called newworld86.rom, is that correct?
So far, have I successfully followed the guide?
I then opened the SS app. It gave me the warning about being from the 'net, I said OK, and then it immediately exits.
Reading the guide, it appears this implies it is having problems finding the ROM or it is the wrong version. I tried the old-world ROM (mac_oldworld_rom4mb, ~4 MB?) and that did not work either.
Please tell me I missed a step somewhere? If not, is there any way to debug this?