Except for that, I cant remember the last time I used Classic to actually accomplish anything.

B2 emulates an old 68K Macintosh, while SS emulates a PowerPC Mac.

E-Maculation has a downloadable OS 7.5.3 starter disk already prepared ( 4.3MB download ).

Os X Classic Emulator Mac OS ROM Update

For SheepShaver, use the Mac OS ROM Update 1.0, provided by Apple.

None of the other Apple-distributed software-based New World ROMs, nor the Old World ROMs Ive extracted from my own Macs have worked.

However, to use this ROM, I think youll need at least System 8.5 (I couldnt get it to run on OS 8.1; maybe older systems dont support New World ROMs).

These extractors are themselves Classic apps, so youll need access to a Mac capable of running Classic or older to get the ROMs.

Additional emulators exist, but I havent tried them: Executor and SoftMac.

So, I use SheepShaver running OS 9.04.

But, that is not without difficulties.

Using SS 2.3, build 0.20060121.1-OSX.i386, under OS X, I have to start up OS 9 with extensions off (hold down the shift key when launching SS), or else I get some sort of display problem after the OS 9 boot sequence.

So, ironically, I run SS in Windows (XP Home Eddition, Service Pack 2) in order to use my Classic Macintosh applications (Photoshop 4 and Matlab 5, because Im cheap and they are still perfectly good versions).

If you get an.hfv disk image (created in Windows, such as the starter disk mentioned above), you can rename it with the.img extension for mounting under OS X.

B2 and SS are capable of mounting CDs, but I use DMG images for everything.

Starting up with a different disk (eg, an installer CD or the starter disk image mentioned above), and mounting the problematic startup disk image in B2 or SS, then simply opening its System folder fixes this.

Mounting the disk image on a Mac booted into Classic would probably also work.

This feature is a bit buggy, too, so if you do this, dont make your root OS X user directory the shared folder.

I use a disk image to transfer files (but mounting disk images in both the host OS and in the emulator simultaneously is risky, so dont do that either).

You might also consider keeping your Classic applications on a separate disk image from the startup disk image.

If you are going to do so, I recommend a good backup first, just in case.

From now on, SS will boot the emulated Mac without video problems.

Most of the performance increases seen in the new machines have little to do with the main processor, but rather with the FSB, DDR2 RAM, PCI Express, SATA, c.

Its the last one that Im really going to miss on an Intel Mac.

The devices may still be in use but the control computer has failed.

In my case, I dont want to carry around an old laptop to occasionally configure an older device.

Os X Classic Emulator Serial Adaptor Thanks

Does anyone know if a classic app running in these emulators can use a USB-serial adaptor Thanks.

Os X Mac Classic Emulator