Hi Ronald - you are so kind to respond to me. Even before this, I owed you a debt of gratitude for all the helpful advice you've given others on this forum that helped me figure things out! I would have never been able to understand enough about emulation to make the jump if not for this awesome community and the moderation team
I was in a pretty bad living situation when I was a teen but thank goodness had a Mac; I think my brain just crawled up into our Performa and never left, meaning now I have a very hard time wanting to organize anything on OS 8 or newer. I have been using real Mac hardware running 9.2.2 for years, but I really like OS 7.6.1 and it seems plausible that I could have a better experience using OS 7.6.1 on my M1 Pro full time rather than just using the Mac as a fancy terminal.
Unfortunately, on my M1 Pro MacBook I keep having weird issues with the emulators I've tried. I'm also having trouble with a commercial Electron app, and the issues seem to be similar, so I was just about to wipe the MacBook and do a fresh clean install.
Since I have no idea between the emulators I tried to set up and the various commercial software I had installed, I was just hoping to get an idea of what was best for OS 7.6.1 setups in the current macOS / M1 environment.
Unless I'm off base, it sounds like for now SheepShaver would be the ultimate in flexibility for a 7.6.1 setup. I'll plan on keeping tabs and beginning to test Qemu 68k as soon as I can wrap my head around it.
My thanks to you again for even reading this, much less all the rest you've done for us Classic types around here.