Help with running Starship Titanic on Mac OS9 SheepShaver

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Dinktosh
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Help with running Starship Titanic on Mac OS9 SheepShaver

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Hello,

I am very new to the world of SheepShaver and Mac emulators so please forgive me if I have silly or obvious questions!

I am desperately trying to get Starship Titanic to run on my Mac book pro (its OS X version 10.9.5). I have managed to install SheepShaver and can now run a Mac OS 9 desktop on my laptop. I used this this guide to get it up and running. https://youtu.be/Qqgw4z_r2sE

I have also downloaded this copy of Starship Titanic
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/starship-titanic-3xu
but I can't for the life of me work out how to make it run in the emulator!
I have set up a working share file so I can physically get the Starship Titanic disk files into the Mac OS 9 emulator and I also downloaded a OS 9 version of StuffIt to attempt to unpack the disk files in the emulator but it just unpacks for 10mins and then comes up with error messages. The .sit files just don't seem to be recognised!

I have also tried following the instructions posted here
http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Pos ... y-Go-Wrong
but I get stuck what asked to open the 'SheepShaverGUI' because that button just won't click for me, the little sheep icon has a circle with a line through it and comes up with the message 'You can't open the application "SheepShaverGUI" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.' so I'm just not sure what to do next!

This has been driving me mad and I'm so frustrated at my own lack on knowledge on how to fix this so any help getting this up an running would be amazing and greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance
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Ronald P. Regensburg
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Re: Help with running Starship Titanic on Mac OS9 SheepShave

Post by Ronald P. Regensburg »

1. Better check your settings against our setup guide, they may differ from what the YouTube movie tells you to do. http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/she ... os_x_setup

2. If you used the disk image with installed MacOS9 that can be downloaded from Redundant Robot: Note that that image file should not be locked in the OSX Finder (as opposed to a install CD image) and that its volume is too small in size for any major additional installations.

3. The disk image files of the game should not be imported in SheepShaver, but added to the volumes list in SheepShaver preferences. The next time SheepShaver is launched, they will mount on the OS9 desktop.

4. You may have considerable difficulty in getting sound of this specific game to work properly in OS9 in SheepShaver. See the discussion in this topic about the issue and solutions: http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewto ... =20&t=8525
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