Classic Mac (OS 9) Emulator for OS X?

[lazydays]

Ok, I've got sheep shaver 2.3 installed and os 9.0.4. No internet yet though. Fun fun fun.

[Forrest]

I've tried SheepShaver for OSX and run into some problems. I never got networking working, and printing seems a bear to setup. I've also seen it crash often enough that I wouldn't use it for serious work.

[bazookaman]

Forrest wrote:
I've also seen it crash often enough that I wouldn't use it for serious work.

For that true OS9 feel.

[mikebw]

Finding a ROM file wasn't a big deal when I decided I wanted OS 9 again for my CompyMac X86. Of course I only used it a few times to play Age of Empires and nothing else.

[lazydays]

Where's oscar the grouch? He used to come out of my trash can... ;-)

[rz]

setting up Sheepshaver isn't too hard. I did it for my sister several years ago for some accounting program she needed. I think she still uses it on occasion.

I have it setup on my machine as well, but haven't used it in years. I'll probably delete it someday.

[p8712]

Doesn't chubby bunny use powerpc code? You have to use an intel compiled build of sheepsaver for lion.

[Chakravartin]

p8712 wrote:
Doesn't chubby bunny use powerpc code? You have to use an intel compiled build of sheepsaver for lion.

'Don't recall. But it'll have the ROM.

[Rolando]

The WordPerfect version I have has the ROM built in. I then added 2 virtual drives. I rebooted the Sheepsaver Mac from a Mac OS 8.5 CD and installed 8.5 on it. So I have a dual booting Sheepsaver Mac! Printing is setup to produce a PDF which gets directed to your installed printer.

[mrlynn]

I downloaded Chubby Bunny from here:

http://www.macwindows.com/OS9_on_Intel_Mac.html

installed the folder on my MBP, double-clicked 'Classic.app', and OS 9.0.4 booted right up. It thinks it's running on a Power Mac 9500 series machine. It was a puzzle figuring out how to get any files into it, until I read a ReadMe document, which said that an empty drive called 'Unix' on the OS 9 desktop was mapped to the Shared folder in Users on the MBP.

It's pretty cool, actually. MacMoney looks like it runs, and my USB numeric keypad even seems to work—there doesn't seem to be an embedded keypad on the MBP's keyboard, unlike my older Mac laptops.

The Chubby Bunny installation comes with Word Perfect 3.5 installed—why, I don't know, but there is a coterie of WP fanatics out there who used to lament its demise. After putting the MBP to sleep by closing the lid, Sheep Shaver hung and required a Force Quit to get rid of.

The developer is quite frank about the questionable legality of Chubby Bunny, but since I have several OS 9 install disks, and a bunch of vintage Macs with intact ROMs, I don't think I'm infringing on any copyright rules.

Still, it's a bit of a kludge, and I'm not sure whether I'm going to use it to keep MacMoney going on this trip, or whether I will spring for a new personal-finance program (someone on another thread recommended Fortora Fresh Finance, which looks interesting—though oddly that post seems to have been removed: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1329129 ).

But many thanks, Chakravartin, for the Chubby Bunny tip. Sure is a lot easier than trying to extract a usable ROM from a running Mac.

/Mr Lynn