Hopefully some people here know about SheepShaver and can help me.Īlso here is my SheepShaver_prefs file: disk C:\Users\name\Documents\Mac OS 8_6.isoĭisk C:\Users\name\Desktop\SheepShaver\SheepShaver\Mac OS 8_6.hfv In Serial/Network, make sure 'slirp' is the Ethernet interface. It's packed into the ISO with everything else. In Keyboard/Mouse, turn off 'Use Raw Keycodes' and set 'Mouse Wheel Function' to your liking if you have a mouse wheel (which isnt recognized by OS 9 so SheepShaver has to do something else to pretend).
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I don't know how to use that with SheepShaver. Something else of interest is that I did download a rom from somewhere for OS 8.6, but in the process of copying files from the mac I noticed that there was a rom in the system folder. I'm not sure what that means or if it even applies to OS 8.6 (the post is about OS 9). Choose a memory (RAM) size for your virtual machine, then click the Miscellaneous tab, turn on ‘Use Raw Keycodes’ and browse to the keycode file in the SheepShaver folder. When one selected an OS9 System Folder as the Startup Disk in OS X and the hard disk does not have OS 9 Drivers installed, same situation will happen upon reboot and the only way to recover booting to OS X is to use Open Firmware console or a valid external OS 9 boot disk with latest version of Startup Disk control panel.
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Mac OS X doesn't need any disk driver partition to work, but Classic OSes always need driver partitions in order to boot from non-floppies. Open Firmware has successfully loaded the Mac OS ROM, but the CD does not contain OS 9 drivers. When I try to start the emulation, I get met with a gray screen with a gray floppy disk icon with a blinking question mark, and it hangs there.įrom here I read that that floppy disk symbol means I followed the rest of the guide to the letter. I just copied everything from the mac onto a usb flash drive and then packed it all into an ISO.īy following the sheepshaver tutorial I made two volumes, one using the ISO I created and the other as a hard file named Mac OS 8_6.hfv.
I'm not the most familiar with using bootable disk images (or OS 8.6 for that matter). I dug out the old IMac G3 with OS 8.6 today, and I'm trying to make a disk image of it so that I can boot it on my windows pc.