SheepShaver MacOS Sonoma

[macman]

I just upgraded my 2022 MacStudio with Apple M1 Max silicon to Sonoma 14.0 and the latest build of SheepShaver 2.5 (build from 2023_08_10) is working fine. Not sure about printing since I never print except to a PS file. But so far so good.

[jonandali]

Just done same thing on new mac book air 15" with Sheepshaver 2.5 on sonoma. I _can_ get my set ups to boot up (System 8.5) but they hang when I start up in full screen once I get to desktop of applescripts start running. I can start up windowed then toggle to full screen and all is well but was hoping ultimately to get it working in fullscreen right off the bat. Also I cannot access settings -just greyed out in the sheepshaver dropdown. Admitedly I've just jumped from an intel mac running Mojave so even getting used to the fact the prefs tool no longer works, but any pointers gratefully received as to why any of these things I am mentioning are happening. Thanks

[Ronald P. Regensburg]

Just done same thing on new mac book air 15" with Sheepshaver 2.5 on sonoma.

Note that SheepShaver versions are identified by the build date, not by the version number. All 30+ builds since 2018 have version number 2.5.

Also I cannot access settings -just greyed out in the sheepshaver dropdown.

Which SheepShaver build do you use? This issue was first seen in macOS 13 (Ventura) when Apple decided to rename the "Preferences" menu item to "Settings". It was solved in the December 2022 SheepShaver build. Best use the latest build, now the 10 August 2023 build.

[Ronald P. Regensburg]

I _can_ get my set ups to boot up (System 8.5) but they hang when I start up in full screen once I get to desktop of applescripts start running.

I am not sure I understand. SheepShaver should run fine when launched in full-screen mode. Do you have AppleScripts being launched at startup?

[jonandali]

Thanks for your replies, much appreciated. I will look at what I have done so far more closely later this week: I have only been configuring my new macbook for a day. Anyway, re: sheepshaver, the build I downloaded is, 'SheepShaver_universal_20230810.zip' so am guessing it's the latest build. I took the new app and replaced the old one with it but left everything else as was. What happens when I open this new version, is sheepshaver starts booting System 8.5 with a screen size of 640x480 and when it reaches its desktop an applescript automatically opens a Macromedia Director projector. If I toggle out of fullscreen mode while system 8.5 is booting then everything starts up ok albeit slower than previously. However if I leave it in fullscreen mode it gets as far as trying to open the Director projector and then hangs until a spinning beach ball appears signaling that sheepshaver is no longer responding. I have waited a minute or so at this point but have always ended by forcing sheepshaver to quit. Also, the settings are greyed out in sheepshaver so cannot access them in drop down menu. My first thoughts (I am no expert here) is that maybe there's a permissions issue (not sure why works when not starting up fullscreen though) and also perhaps I need to edit the prefs manually to be more friendly to new macos (Sonora) running the emulator. However I need to go look at what values do what when editing the prefs manually, which I will try and work out later. However if anything else occurs to you please do suggest away, and thanks again.

[Ronald P. Regensburg]

I suppose you have this applescript (or an alias of the script) in the Startup Items folder in the 8.5 System Folder to have it launch at startup. If you remove it there, can you then run the script after startup in full-screen mode is completed?

The Settings item in SheepShaver menu being greyed out with my latest SheepShaver build is strange. Are you sure it is the only build on your machine and an older build is not launched accidentally? I cannot test it myself in Sanoma because I always wait till after at least the first update before I install a new macOS version. Do others see a greyed "Settings" item in SheepShaver menu in Sanoma?

If you have doubts about the settings in your prefs file, you can post its content here so we can judge your settings. Open the file in a text editor and copy and paste all content here in your reply.

[jonandali]

Firstly thanks for your reply again, and thank you for building Sheepshaver to run in these current OS's: it's very greatly appreciated. I went through what you said and can report I had mistakenly been using the 2018 build and everything is working fine with the most recent one. Apologies for taking up time here but thank you for going through this with me: everything is working, which is AMAZING!!