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SS and OS 7.5.x

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:55 pm
by ShosMeister
Alright guys and gals. After finally buying a new Mac - Black MacBook - I've learned the same thing everyone else has; no Classic. Yes, I, like a lot of other users, have a few old applications that I just can't do without.

I've managed to get vMac (mini) working with 7.0.1; not that I really need anything that old, but, wanted to prove that I do know what I'm doing.

Trying to get SS running is proving to be more of a pain. To verify I have at least some valid files, I setup Basilisk II and that works with my Quadra650 ROM and a 7.5.5 startup disk image (.dmg). When I try to use the Mac OS ROM and the same image (not at the same time) on SS, I get the message that it's not compatible with this machine. I'm guessing it's the ROM that it's seeing and figureing it can't run 7.5.5. Since I don't have my old CD's or floppies, I'm stuck with just the images. I thought SS could handle 7.5?

Also, is there a way to get out of SS without having to force quit? Quit doesn't work :( :(

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:45 am
by Ronald P. Regensburg
SheepShaver emulates a PPC Mac and needs a different ROM file than BasisliskII that emulates a 68k Mac. A Quadra ROM file will not work.

A ROM file that will work is the one that can be extracted from "Mac OS ROM Update 1.0" using Tomeviewer.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60408
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4561

SheepShaver will run MacOS 8.5 through 9.0.4

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:24 pm
by ShosMeister
That should be the ROM that I'm using but I'll double check. As for the OS versions, according to the site (http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/):

"SheepShaver runs MacOS 7.5.2 thru MacOS 9.0.4"

So I'm not sure why you say it's only 8.x and up.

Thanks!!!!

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:02 pm
by Ronald P. Regensburg
ShosMeister wrote:"SheepShaver runs MacOS 7.5.2 thru MacOS 9.0.4"

So I'm not sure why you say it's only 8.x and up.
The Mac version only runs 8.5 thru 9.0.4

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:05 pm
by ShosMeister
So stick with B2 if I need to run 7.x then I guess.

Thanks!!!

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:08 am
by Silver9990
I've had 7.5.3/7.5.5 running just fine in SheepShaver.

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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:16 am
by Stephen Coates
7.5 will run fine in the Windows version of SheepShaver.

The Mac version of SheepShaver will only run MacOS 8.

I've no idea why.

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:27 am
by yksoft1
do you have any pre-beige G3 OldWorld ROM which is 4MB in size?
I managed to run 7.5.3 with a ROM from a Power Mac 9600 on both Windows and PowerPC MacOSX versions of SheepShaver.

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:41 pm
by ShosMeister
I don't think so. I have an old Classic I'm trying to get running, but, I'm guessing that's too old. I'm going to try to copy the ROM out of there before I turn it into a fish tank :)

Thanks for the input though!!!

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:43 am
by yksoft1
You need an OldWorld Power Mac with PCI.
at present only SoftMac accept Classic ROM

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:40 pm
by Clemenseken
To Stephen

(maybe my post is a little outdated - sorry if so...)

thanks to your great site i started to look for ways to get my old (beloved?) sys 753 from years ago onto my also quite old ibook G3 -
because i am thinking about buying an intel mac soon.
os 9 was easy to run. in order to run 7.5.3 i had to "acquire" a beige (PPC9500) ROM.

but now the old 7.5.3 runs along. i won't use it to do heavy work, so an occasional crash doesn't matter too much to me.

sheepshaver with me will only run in a window, and i had to select "ignore illegal memory access" (or a similar formulation i don't remember...).

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:51 pm
by gedgar
Stephen Coates wrote:7.5 will run fine in the Windows version of SheepShaver.

The Mac version of SheepShaver will only run MacOS 8.

I've no idea why.
SheepShaver on my Mac G5 is running MacOS 7.5.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:54 pm
by Ronald P. Regensburg
gedgar wrote:
Stephen Coates wrote:7.5 will run fine in the Windows version of SheepShaver.

The Mac version of SheepShaver will only run MacOS 8.

I've no idea why.
SheepShaver on my Mac G5 is running MacOS 7.5.
Apparently, it depends on the ROM whether 7.5 will run.

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:46 pm
by mhmyers
I have Sheepshaver running 7.6, 8.6, and 9.04 in my Intel Macbook.

The Startup Disk Control Panel would not work to select a different OS with the ROM update 1.0 so I harvested the ROM from my G3.

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:49 pm
by MetalSnake
On my G5 I'm able to run OS 9 and the free System 7.5.3
The first rom I had wouldn't work with 7.5.3 but then I found another which works.

When I open the Startup Volume control panel in either 7.5.3 or OS 9 SS crashes. Is that "normal" as in, everyone has this problem?

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:06 pm
by Cat_7
Yes,

The Startup Volume CP doesn't work. You can change the startup disk by changing the order in which the disks appear in the settings GUI.

Best,
Cat_7

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:10 pm
by mhmyers
Cat_7 wrote:Yes,

The Startup Volume CP doesn't work. You can change the startup disk by changing the order in which the disks appear in the settings GUI.

Best,
Cat_7
It works fine for me if I use the G3 ROM file