![]() Sheepshaver is permanently locked to using a G4 processor. The best hope is for MAME/MESS to better emulate the PowerMac soon. This also means that early PowerMac support is nonexistent. Only a select number of ROMs can actually run within Sheepshaver. In fact, Old World ROM support is generally better than New World ROM support. There's not much in the way of genuine hardware emulation, aside from the CPU core itself (maybe).Īs a result of these patches, it best works with the Power Mac 9500 ROM. Sheepshaver relies a lot on RAM and ROM patches to get anything working at all. This can be really jarring when trying to play a sequenced music file.īecause Basilisk II and Sheepshaver share the same code base, a lot of it results in the two emulators having many of the same flaws. ![]() In a lot of newer builds, the sound phases out every other cue. This is likely because it is causing the emulator to reach FNaN, but I don't have the hardware to test this out. It will frequently crash even when the extension is turned off. This can be demonstrated by installing the extension "Gravity" into the Mac OS extension folder, rebooting the OS and trying to use the desktop. The aforementioned FPU can be very glitchy. It only can do a limited range of OSes and largely those that are either universal or designed for Power Mac 8500/9500 computers. It's to the point where some of it is the same between the two emulator and the two generally have loads of similarities.įor all of its advantages, Sheepshaver is very limited. It shares a lot of similarities to Basilisk II, which isn't surprising since that too was worked on heavily by Christian and Gwenole. The CD-ROM support may be broken on 64-bit machines, but the newest unofficial builds fix this glitch. There is sound, networking and CD-ROM support. It's easy to fix this, such that other applications can run within Sheepshaver. It does an OK job with 2D graphics, since there is a limited reimplementation of QuickDraw 2D. ![]() Altivec support was added, giving it some G4 support. It can run a variety of applications ranging from productivity to design to games, although not always accurately.įPU support is included.but not quite right (see below). Mac OS Classic runs OK in it, which isn't surprising as it uses the Mac OS ROMs in order to run. Since then, people have contributed a number of patches, but nothing ground-breaking. However, due to real-life obligations, he stopped work in 2008. Gwenole Beauchesne then proceeded to improve it massively over the next couple of years. It was released as an open-source program in 2002, as Bauer was unable to make further progress, Mac OS X was rapidly gaining acceptance and Sheepshaver was too limited for the new market needs. It was originally sold in BeOS stores for a small price, but it was sufficient enough to run PowerPC Mac stuff on the BeOS. Originally written for PowerPC BeOS computers, Sheepshaver was originally coded by Christian Bauer in 1997. It also is partly based on Basilisk II, so some coding practices and even some features (CD drivers, audio and ADB) are shared between these two. Needless to say, it hasn't progressed as well as it could have since 2006. Indeed, it can run Mac OS 7.5.x to Mac OS 9.0.x. Sheepshaver was the first PPC emulator I used, mainly because it was focused on Classic Mac OS. Due to a technical flub on Blogger's side, the stuff for Sheepshaver was accidentally overwritten with Classix's article. I apologize in advance for the sudden deletion of Sheepshaver's post.
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