Classic on Intel Macs

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How to run Classic (pre OS X) apps on Intel Macs

 

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...14879&lsrc=osxh

 

Do you use an Intel-based Mac but still have a few essential Classic (pre-OS X) Mac applications you want to run? Recent universal compiles allow you to use SheepShaver (SS) or Basilisk II (B2) to run Classic software in emulation on Intel Macs under Mac OS X directly -- or under Windows via dual-boot or Parallels virtualization. B2 emulates an old 68K Macintosh, while SS emulates a PowerPC Mac.

 

What you need:

 

1. An old Mac OS (up to OS 8.1 for B2, or OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4 for SS). You can get OS 7.5.3 for free from Apple. E-Maculation has a downloadable OS 7.5.3 starter disk already prepared (4.3MB download).

2. A Mac ROM. For B2, you must extract a ROM file from an old 68K Mac that you own. Use CopyROM or ROM-grabber for the extraction. 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 I've extracted from my own Macs have worked. However, to use this ROM, I think you'll need at least System 8.5 (I couldn't get it to run on OS 8.1; maybe older systems don't support New World ROMs?). Extract the ROM from the updater with TomeView. These extractors are themselves Classic apps, so you'll need access to a Mac capable of running Classic or older to get the ROMs.

3. To run SS or B2 under Windows, you'll also need: a) the Win32 Runtime Library of Simple DirectMedia Layer and the Gtk+ Win32 Runtime Library. Just extract the contents of the downloaded files into the same directory as the SS and B2 .exe files.

 

Additional emulators exist, but I haven't tried them: Executor and SoftMac. Both run under Windows. Executor is commercial, but does not require a ROM.