emulators?

nitsuj98 · Post by **nitsuj98** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:23 pm

is there an emulator that you can boot you computer directly into(not through windows) that will run Mac OS 9?

Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:09 pm

There is nothing like that and there cannot be anything like that. An emulator is a program and needs, like any other program, a operating system that runs on the hardware you want to use.

On your PC you can probably use a version of Linux instead of Windows and run SheepShaver for Linux on it instead of SheepShaver for Windows.

nitsuj98 · Post by **nitsuj98** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:22 am

what about booting an emulator in DOS? like from a CD?

Post by **Cat_7** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:52 am

That might be possible, but you would sooner use an USB stick, as the operating system and emulator would have to be able to write to the device.

Or start with a cd with dos, and use the emulator from the hard disk.

There is the vMac Mac OS emulator that runs from the dos prompt.
But it only emulates Mac OS up to version 7.5.5.

Best wishes
Cat_7

nitsuj98 · Post by **nitsuj98** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:19 am

yeah, ive heard of vmac, but I need to run OS 9.
I really like sheepshaver, but I wish it could boot into DOS.....
what are the chances of there being a port to DOS?

Post by **Cat_7** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:58 pm

My guess would be: not very much more then zero.

Best wishes,
Cat_7

iMac600 · Post by **iMac600** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:01 pm

SheepShaver uses WinAPI, KDE, Mac OS X's CoreImage, OpenGL and DirectX to do it's heavy graphics lifting.

Unfortunately, none such run under DOS.

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:35 pm

You may be able to use Fusion PC is you wanted to run up to OS8.1 on 68k emulation, but still no PPC emulation in MSDOS.

Mr. Saturn · Post by **Mr. Saturn** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:12 am

Maybe you could boot from Linux, and have it immediately run full screen emulator.