Information AboutSheepshaver |
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| powerpc emulators | |
| macintosh platform emulators | |
| mac os x emulation software | |
SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC Apple Macintosh Emulator originally designed for BeOS and Linux . The name is a play on ShapeShifter, a Macintosh II emulator (made obsolete by Basilisk II ), which is in turn not to be confused with A Third-party Preference Pane For Mac OS X With The Same Name . The SheepShaver (and ShapeShifter ) project was originally conceived and programmed by Christian Bauer . However, the main developer behind SheepShaver, as of late, has been Gwenolé Beauchesne . SheepShaver was originally commercial software when first released in 1998, but after the demise of Be Inc. , the maker of BeOS , it became open source in 2002. It can be run on both PowerPC and X86 systems; however, it runs more slowly on an x86 system than on a PowerPC system. It has also been ported to Microsoft Windows . Ports to the Mac OS X PowerPC and Intel versions have also been released. A complete install for Intel Macs can be found here . It is capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4 (though it needs the Image of an Old World ROM to run Mac OS 8.1 or below), and can be run inside a window so that the user can run classic Mac OS applications and BeOS or Linux or Windows applications at the same time. Although SheepShaver does have Ethernet support and CD-quality sound output, SheepShaver does not emulate a Memory Management Unit , as is the case with Basilisk II , and thus cannot run later versions of Mac OS 9 or any version of Mac OS X , which is best emulated by PearPC . At the present, SheepShaver's developers do not have plans to add MMU emulation, since it would hinder the performance of the emulator. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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