#Old Emulator Skin Their Mac#

The curiously named Sheepshaver application is the best supported Mac emulator currently out there. Installing and setting up either of the two major Mac OS emulators presently available is a bit of a chore. Not only can you share code across the Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS platforms.Sounds simple, right? Well, it turns out to be anything but simple. If you have an older Appleworks based document that you need to regain access to, how do you do this if you donвЂ™t have an older Mac to facilitate that access? The answer? Run a Mac OS 9 emulator on your modern Mac, install Appleworks into the emulator and then use it to recover full access to the document of interest.Apple will let you emulate old apps and run iOS apps on ARM Macs. Part 1: Downloading and Compiling 1) Open a new terminal window, and cd to any directory you like, this will be where the BasiliskII and SheepShaver source will be stored.The вЂњAppleworks problemвЂќ turned out to be fairly easily stated. Here is where Mac OS 7.5.3 is located: Download Here is where the Mac OS 7.5.5 update is located: Download.

What a great idea!Installing Chubby Bunny is as simple as dropping its executable into your Applications folder (the application is called Classic.app, and it sports the вЂњclassicвЂќ Classic.app icon вЂ“ a nice touch) and placing one of the three included disk images into your /Users/Shared folder. There are a LOT of curiously named applications in this post! рџ™‚ вЂњChubby BunnyвЂќ is a pre-configured version of Sheepshaver, with all of the setup already done. I wonвЂ™t comment on the effort required to install and set up Basilisk II вЂ“ I found the idea of an emulated PowerPC Mac far more attractive than the idea of an emulated 68K Mac.This is where another curiously named package came to the rescue. Sheepshaver emulates a PowerPC Macintosh Basilisk II emulates a 68K Macintosh.I looked into installing and setting up Sheepshaver on my Intel iMac and quickly found that the number of steps involved, and the amount of work involved in each step, was daunting to say the least.

The three supplied disk images are standard Mac OS X. The rest of this post concerns the resolution of these two issues.Installing a larger disk image into Chubby Bunny turned out to be quite easy. The virtual screen size was limited to 1024Г—768 (I wanted 1280Г—1024) and the maximum disk image size you could use was limited to just 1.2 GB (a wee bit small for a well-stocked Mac OS 9 system in my opinion вЂ“ I wanted something much larger). Two things didnвЂ™t quite meet my needs. I was delighted to learn all of this, and wanted to pass it along to you, the readers of this blog.HOWEVER, I wasnвЂ™t entirely pleased with the configuration of Chubby Bunny.

Dmg file using Disk Utility. Dmg file name, I created a 12 GB. Banking on Chubby Bunny not checking anything but the. Dmg file in /Users/Shared with one of the names it recognizes, it mounts it as a disk into your Mac OS 9 instance and that is that.

This was a much harder nut to crack. First problem solved!Below is screen shot showing a Chubby Bunny Finder window open on the 12 GB disk.Now onto the screen resolution. Chubby Bunny happily mounted the 12 GB disk image into my Mac OS 9 instance and all was well.

Regrettably, my confidence was misplaced вЂ“ the virtual desktop still came up at 1024Г—768. Well, this is going to be easy, I thought! I entered 12 and confidently restarted Chubby Bunny. One of those is screen resolution, and the menu allows you to enter pretty much any two numbers you want.

There, he indicated, you could adjust video resolution and lots of other things as well.Excellent. Sheepshaver_prefs, which is created in your home directory when you run Sheepshaver. He suggested directly editing the file. I was not hopeful of getting a response, but much to my surprise and delight, Jon got right back to me. I repeated this exercise several times to be sure, but the result was always the same.Stymied, I reached out (via email) to Chubby BunnyвЂ™s author, one Jon Gardner, and asked him if there was any simple way to make preference changes вЂњstickвЂќ across restarts.

Some experimentation revealed that no matter WHAT changes I made to. I tried this a few times as well, to be very sure the behavior was always the same, and it always was. Once again I was wrong! Chubby Bunny stubbornly came up at 1024Г—768 again, and didnвЂ™t even reflect my newly edited selection of 1280Г—1024 in the available preferences.

If this sounds complicated or dangerous, donвЂ™t worry, it is not. SO, to fix my problem, all I had to do was find that internal copy and make my changes there. Sheepshaver_prefs with this internal copy each time it ran. Sheepshaver_prefs INSIDE the Chubby Bunny Classic application file, and the app had to be overwriting the existing. Clearly, there had to be a copy of.

Following my instincts, I repeated this step on the COI.app file that you see in the above view. The below screen shots show this selection for Chubby BunnyвЂ™s Classic.app, and the view that results:HmmmвЂ¦ no. App file in a simple directory/file paradigm. App file and does exactly what the name suggests вЂ“ it shows you the contents of the. Select вЂњShow Package ContentsвЂќ, and Finder opens the. This is visible whenever you right click a.

Second (and last) problem solved.OK, this then IS now the end of the post. Success! The virtual desktop came up at 1280Г—1024 and now even included 1154Г—862 as a possible selection between 1280Г—10Г—768. I closed up COI.app and then Classic.app and crossing all my fingers and toes, re-launched Classic.app. Sheepshaver_prefs! I had found what I was looking for.I edited the 1024 and 768 numbers, making them 12 respectively and saved the file back. What exactly was THAT file? I dropped it into my favorite Mac OS X text editor (I use the excellent Smultron) and voila! I was rewarded with nothing less than a full copy of. HOWEVER, there was a curious looking file there, simply titled вЂњhih1вЂќ.

Chubby Bunny incorporates a fully configured copy of Sheepshaver (the COI.app you saw in the steps above includes Sheepshaver.app, with the whole thing renamed to reflect вЂњClassic On IntelвЂќ). If you want a larger disk, or a larger screen, the notes above should provide the guidance necessary to achieve those results.Now just before you trundle out and do that, a note about legality. If you are happy with the defaults, you are вЂњgood to goвЂќ.

I will leave that to your good judgement. For you however, gentle reader, I cannot say whether this is an issue or not. We literally have almost a dozen or more old Macs in legal residence, two of which are running Mac OS 9. Practically speaking, this requirement is satisfied in full if you have an old pre Mac OS X Macintosh lying around loaded with Mac OS 9.Here at the Happy Macs lab, this is not an issue. You MUST have legal access to both of these yourself if you are to be on the right side of the law when using Chubby Bunny.

Old Emulator Skin Their Mac

SoвЂ¦ Shape Shifter, Sheep ShaverвЂ¦ they both sort of do the same thing, at least from a very abstract perspective. It not only reskins the GUI, it takes it back 15 years or so, give or take a year or two here or there. Sheepshaver sort of does the same thing, but with a twist. I have read that it is a play on the name вЂњShape ShifterвЂќ, a well-known Mac OS X application that allows users to completely reskin their Mac GUI if they wish to.

Old Mac Os Emulator