Each time I access old documents, I export those drawings as PDFs so that they can be easily referred to in future, but it would be so much better if those files remained editable. When I need to service or modify that equipment, I obviously need to refer to those design drawings and schematics. The files concern equipment that I designed and built. I keep two old Macs laptops ( one and a spare ) solely so that I can access Freehand files that I created anything up to twenty years ago. I’m more interested in having a version of Rosetta ( PPC emulator ) that will run on current Macs. Apple’s OS6 was like Fort Knox compared to that piece of “crapware”. I swear you could’ve hit the screen with a feather and the whole system would crash. I’d have to do a full system reboot to get everything working. In 1992 I was the only person in the office who had any experience with computers and every Friday when our receptionist was doing a backup the system would spectacularly crash. Now that was a dog of an OS…oblique and unstable. However it was far more stable than Microsoft’s 3.1 (which was better than 3.0). Ah the early days of “desktop” computing…minefields, problems and OS6. I phoned my head teacher and explained what happened (in a panic) and she immediately understood what was going on. Then there was the time when OS6x decided to delete half of my overheads for a class that I was teaching that evening.

I still remember trying to work out how to eject the OS floppy after it got stuck in the drive on my Mac Plus. The interface is like a step back in time. The name of the emulator is a reference to ShapeShifter, a Mac II emulator for AmigaOS. Builds based on those contributions are listed on this site and in the SheepShaver forum. Development at that time was driven by Gwenole Beauchesne, who ported the emulator to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.īeauchesne suspended his work on SheepShaver in April of 2008, although volunteers have contributed bug fixes and features since that time. In 2002, following the commercial decline of Be, SheepShaver was released as an open-source application. At that time, SheepShaver was a commercial product developed by Christian Bauer. SheepShaver began life in 1998 as a MacOS emulator for BeOS. SheepShaver is considered a good replacement for the Classic Environment which is not available in the most recent versions of Mac OS X….

Builds of SheepShaver are available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Using SheepShaver (along with the appropriate ROM image) it is possible to emulate a PowerPC Macintosh computer capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4. SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator.

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