Mac OS 9.0 to work with Sheepshaver too?

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Thralni
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Mac OS 9.0 to work with Sheepshaver too?

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I assume the answer is yes, as it says so on the homepage (...up to 9.0.4). However, before i do anything stupid, i wnat to know this for sure.

And this quetsion has probably been asked many times, but why doesn't Mac OS 9.2.2 work?

Thanks in advance.
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Ronald P. Regensburg
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Post by Ronald P. Regensburg »

SheepShaver works with 8.5, 8.6, 9.0 and 9.0.4. It does not work with 9.1 and later because of different memory management in those system versions. MacOS 9.1 and later cannot run without a special kind of virtual memory and SheepShaver does not provide virtual memory to the system. (For the same reason some applications will not run on SheepShaver because they need virtual memory to be available, like MS Office 2001 applications.)
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Post by Thralni »

Will this be integrated in Shaapshaver one day, or can I forget about that?

In any way, thanks.
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