Also used this page for reference:

http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup

Thanks for the instructions and resources.

1. I can’t increase the window size above 1024×856

2. SheepShaver Preferences don’t show to allow adjusting window size there.

Anyone know how to do that? I’d like to increase to 1280×1024.

I had another thought, Martin. Get COI and that really will solve your problem; but alternatively, I noticed that you are doing all this on a G4 iBook that presently has X.5.8 installed.

So, do you still have the install/restore discs that came with your machine? They should be 10.3.x or 10.4.x, and as such they will have the Classic Environment as part of the install (if you no longer have those discs, copies of retail Tiger 10.4.x can be found on various “Share-the-Wealth”{STW} sites {Codez4mac; MacBB, others} via direct anonymized links to free file-hosting services; BitTorrent has them also, I’m sure, but the STW sites are much faster and more trustably free of the newer malware, and what you DL from them can be relied on to actually run fully & properly).

Go ahead and make a partition {which you can do non-destructively in Leopard} on your main HDD if you have space (or an external USB/FW drive, even a large USB flash or SD card/USB reader would go great also) for just the OS, with your 10.3.x or 10.4.x installer, being sure to enable/install all Classic/9 support (like HD drivers, etc.).

You can dump your ?9.x apps/games/files into a folder on your main (Leopard) partition and it will work fine. That seems like a better, easier solution if you can do it. It would be faster and less buggy/twitchy than the most optimized Sheepshaver/COI/Basilisk setup in the world. I am in the Intel-only world now myself, which is why I don’t do this myself. It will be a number more years before Apple puts 9.x out in the free domain, and even then they wont exactly advertise the fact (as the deeply buried hard to find FTP directories that have Systems 6 and 7, 8.0/8.1, and various complementary & supporting files proves well. Apple moves this stuff around and it won’t usually come up in a Google or Apple search. Look at it my way: I say it isn’t really piracy at all, not even. No income or profit is being denied them or anyone, since these products have not been for sale anywhere in more than 10 years. And they aren’t competing with any version of OSX (beyond the ‘public’ beta, yuck yuck) either, since any document, image, audio file, video file, of any kind at all can be handled and/or directly imported into ‘modern’ apps and OSX (sometimes with some effort, but no work product of 1998 is lost without ?9.x and its apps, no sir.

So have at it! I have nice discs and/or disc images of every major Mac OS release from 9.2.2 back to 6.0.8 (and System 5 and System 2 as well, but lord help me should I ever need to install them on a 512K or SE! Anyone got any 400K floppies they can spare

Good luck to you!

Good luck to you!

If you still have not had any luck getting SS up and running, let me recommend an alternative called “Classic-over-Intel” (also known as “Chubby-Bunny”) which is more than just another build of Sheepshaver, but the whole shebang configured and setup. Just install, follow instructions to mount a blank disk image of your choosing, and to install your apps and games (that YOU do provide), and you are set (some of the last builds of SS won’t run properly under SL, and possibly not under later Leo updates; it is generally a pretty fussy emulator)

You can find “COI” via bittorrent, and also from shares on a number of Mac file-sharing/file-hosting forums, like MacBB, Codez4Mac, and others. Sheepshaver can be customized and optimized to suit, but I have used COI for a year and a half, runs absolutely everything 8.1 and newer from my old PBG3 Wallstreet w/9.2.2, and some older as well. Not tried net or printing on COI, but why would I? I can cmd-tab over to SL and do whatever I need to there! Try this, it will solve your problem, and quickly. Good luck!

It strikes me this program is just about as hair-teary frustrating as it could possibly be. But to have OS9 on later Macs that won’t accept it is vitally important for all the legacy work one has done on it over many years. It is essential. What is needed is a complete working package with all required bits in it that really works. I am using an iBook G4 1.42 GHz 14″ with OS 10.5.8.

I gather that its inventor Gwenolé Beauchesne is no linger involved, but it is freeware, so presumably someone else can develop a proper working package.