Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

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ThomasvanW
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Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

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Dear fellow enthousiasts,

Since a couple of days I cannot open Sheepshaver anymore. I think I accidentally turned fullscreen on while playing Simcity 2000. Forgot to turn this off.

I searched for solutions but I cannot seem to find it. I’m working on a Macbook Pro 2018 with Big Sur installed.

Second I want to say I appreciate this forum and Sheepshaver in general. I’m a frequent user, mostly games from my childhood. It’s amazing.

I cannot seem to get every game to work. With the mounting etc, but I am planning to buy an iMac G4 800mhz for that.

Thanks guys in advance.
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Ronald P. Regensburg
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Re: Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

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You turned fullscreen on while playing Simcity 2000? Does that mean that you used control-return to switch from window mode to fullscreen mode? That should not change the setting to startup SheepShaver in window mode, so I see no connection with problems at startup.
If you changed settings to start up SheepShaver in fullscreen mode, that by itself should also not crash SheepShaver.

1. Which SheepShaver build (build date!) do you use? Did that same build work before?

2. Post here the content of your prefs file:

Launch Terminal (in /Application/Utilities/) and type at the prompt

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open ~/.sheepshaver_prefs
followed by a return.
The file will open in your default text editor. Select all content and copy and paste it here in your reply.
ThomasvanW
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Re: Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

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Thanks for the reply. I will keep you updated tomorrow.

I think the problem lies in the preferences.
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Re: Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

Post by Ronald P. Regensburg »

If you happen to use the 31 January 2021 build: It freezes when launched full screen. Replace it with a more recent build.
ThomasvanW
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Re: Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

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disk MacOS9.hfv
cdrom /dev/poll/cdrom
extfs /
screen dga/1200/800
windowmodes 0
screenmodes 0
seriala
serialb /dev/null
rom /Users/Thomas/Downloads/Apple Mac OS 9.2.1/macos_921_ppc.iso
bootdrive 0
bootdriver 0
ramsize 536870912
frameskip 0
gfxaccel true
nocdrom false
nonet false
nosound false
nogui false
noclipconversion false
ignoresegv true
ignoreillegal true
jit true
jit68k false
keyboardtype 5
hardcursor false
hotkey 0
scale_nearest false
scale_integer false
cpuclock 0
yearofs 0
dayofs 0
ether
keycodes false
keycodefile
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
ignoresegv true
idlewait true


I tried to change 'windowmodes 0' into '1' but it didn't work
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Re: Sheepshaver crash booting fullscreen

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Update: it worked!
I changed Screenmode into '1'.
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