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It seems to be a day for nostalgia. As Woz & the original Apple I team got together, the Internet Archive has put online a web-based emulator of the original Macintosh from 1984. The emulator. Another all-time great from the era and probably one of the most recognizable Mac titles from the era, too. This includes versions 1.0, 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0. Scroll up for “Cairo Shootout,” another great game by the same author.
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— Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive. This pair of compilation hard drives contains a full copy of MacOS 7.0.1, along with a range of games, applications, utilities and toys to demonstrate the experience of using an early Macintosh computer. System Programs: HyperCard, Macintosh Basics, Control Panels.
Applications: BBEdit Lite, MacDraw, MacPaint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, Orion, Pagemaker, ZTerm. Games: Risk, Cannon Fodder, Shufflepuck. Utilities: HD Setup, Disinfectant, Disk Copy, ResEdit, TeachText.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 5 reviews ). System 6 (also referred to as System Software 6) is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers. It was released in 1988 by Apple Computer and was part of the classic Mac OS line of operating systems. System 6 was shipped with various Macintosh computers until it was succeeded by System 7 in 1991. The boxed version of System 6 cost $49 when introduced.
System 6 is classed as a monolithic operating system. It featured an improved MultiFinder, which allowed for. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ). Developed by Silicon Beach Software, Inc. Released 1986 Platforms Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, CD-i, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, Macintosh Genre Action Gameplay Platform Setting Fantasy Description The Black Knight has brought misery to the land, and the end way to end this is to enter his haunted house to slay him.
You are the brave adventurer taking on this quest through 14 increasingly-tough zones. The bulk of the game is side-viewed, involving single screens to pass through, which. Favorite favorite favorite ( 8 reviews ). MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications.
Using the mouse, and the clipboard and QuickDraw picture language, pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted into MacWrite documents. Pictures could also be cut from.
( 1 reviews ). From the Flight Simulator Website: In 1982 Microsoft released the first version of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC. Like all other versions this one too was created by subLOGIC. Essentially this was the true predecessor of our current version with a more or less complete panel and a 3D out-of-the-window view above. The next comparable release was FS II for the Apple II in 1983 by subLOGIC itself, followed by similar releases for the Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800. In 1984 Microsoft released an.
This Internet Archive emulated item contains a 25MB Macintosh formatted disk image with an install of Mac System 7.5.3. From Wikipedia: 'System 7.5.3, a major bug-fix update that also included Open Transport for other PowerPC-based machines as well as some 68k-based machines. 7.5.3 also made several improvements to the 68k emulator, and added translucent dragging support to the Drag Manager. It was also the first version of Control Strip for all Macs. This was also the first version of Mac. Favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh.
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon 's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 3 reviews ) Topics: Oregon Trail, Macintosh, Apple Mac.
Published by Psygnosis Limited Developed by DMA Design Limited Released 1993 Your task is to rescue the Lemmings across 120 levels of fast-paced puzzling. These creatures simply walk blindly through the world in the hope of reaching safety at the end of the level - unfortunately these levels include steep drops, gaps in the ground, barriers and rivers amongst other hazards. You are in control not of any individual Lemming, but of a cross-hair, which can be moved over any of the Lemmings. Favorite ( 1 reviews ). Published by Silicon Beach Software, Inc. Developed by Silicon Beach Software, Inc. Released 1984 Platform Macintosh Genre Action Perspective Gameplay Shooter Critic Score 100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
Description From a technology standpoint, Airborne! Was a somewhat pioneering game as it was the first Mac game to use digitized sound (most notably for the symphonic rendition of 'Ride Of The Valkyries' during the opening screen), but gameplay-wise, it's. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ). Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based mainframe systems as a freely-distributed executable (Public domain software). It was later included in the official Berkeley Software Distribution 4.2 operating system (4.2BSD).
Commercial ports of the game for a range of personal computers were made by Toy, Wichman, and Jon. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ). Published by Aegis Development, Inc. Developed by Aegis Development, Inc. Released Feb 21, 1985 Platform Macintosh Genre Action Perspective 1st-person Pacing Real-Time Setting Fantasy Description Pyramid of Peril is a dungeon crawler although it lacks RPG elements like experience points and levels. The player is on an archaeological expedition in search of a sacred idol.
To find it the player has to make his way through the pyramid, which consists of six randomly generated levels, while at the. MS BASIC for Macintosh was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh. It was one of the first Microsoft BASIC variants to have optional line numbering, predating QuickBASIC. It was provided in two versions, one with standard binary floating point and another with decimal arithmetic. Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC by Microsoft and the first high level programming language available for the. Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Developed by Sir-tech Software, Inc. Released Sep, 1981 Platforms Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, FM-7, Game Boy Color, Macintosh, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, PC Booter, Sharp X1, WonderSwan Color Genre Role-Playing (RPG) Perspective 1st-person Pacing Turn-based Setting Fantasy Description The Mad Overlord Trebor was once only power-mad, but went off the deep end after he acquired a magical amulet of immense power, only to have it stolen from him by his nemesis, the. Favorite ( 1 reviews ). The legendary first game of the Civilization series, it defined a new genre of turn based strategy. When Sid Meier's Civilization was released in 1991, it single-handedly changed the strategy video game market forever. Its format has since been copied by a number of 'turn-based' games, and the basic plot of the game was to build an empire.
Once this had been successfully established, the aim of the game was to get your civilization to grow and flourish. The game itself covered a wide period of. Topics: Civilization, Macintosh, MicroProse, Apple Mac. MacWrite was a WYSIWYG word processor application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984.
Together with MacPaint, it was one of the two original 'killer applications' that propelled the adoption and popularity of the GUI in general, and the Mac in particular. When the Mac was first being created, it was clear that users would interact with it differently from other personal computers. Typical computers of the era booted into text-only DOS or BASIC command line. Favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ).
After launching the emulator (ensuring that sound is unmuted), allow the Mac OS to boot and then. After one minute of inactivity, After Dark will kick in. This emulated Internet Archive item contains version 2.0 of After Dark, the software that kicked off the screensaver craze of the 1990s. Additionally, the expansions 'More After Dark' and 'After Dark - Art of Darkness' have been added to the install. Navigate to the After Dark control panel via the Apple. Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: After Dark, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, Screensaver, Flying Toasters.
'Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom is a collection of 33 computer games from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom, and the top 6 winners of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition, released in 1996. It was available as a single cross-platform CD-ROM, which included PDFs of all the Infocom games' instructions, maps, and hint booklets. Infocom was closed in 1989 by its then-parent company Activision. Still holding the copyright to nearly all the past Infocom titles, Activision. ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Infocom, Masterpieces, Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. 'I've just spent a cheerful hour of my time writing a program on my computer that will tell me instantly what the volume of the mound was.
It's a very neat and sexy program with all sorts of pop-up menus and things, and the advantage of doing it the way I have is that on any future occasion on which I need to know the volume of a megapode nest, given its basic dimensions, my computer will give me the answer in less than a second, which is a wonderful saving of time. The downside, I. Topics: Megapode, Douglas Adams, last Chance To See, Macintosh, Apple Mac. The BeerStack is a useful reference guide for home brewers. Included in this stack are recipes and information about different styles of beer. 'Beer is one of the most complex beverages that you can drink.
It is, among other things, good-tasting, social, and in too high a quantity intoxicating. To me, beer is more than a glass of light brown liquid with alcohol and a foam head; it is the ultimate topic to discuss among friends or enemies and a very peculiar fluid indeed.
Many people I know. Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: The BeerStack, Apple Macintosh, HyperCard, Macintosh. Macintosh Basic, or MacBASIC, was both a comprehensive programming language and a fully interactive development environment designed by Apple Inc. For the original Macintosh computer. It was developed by original Macintosh team member Donn Denman, with help from fellow Apple programmers Marianne Hsiung, Larry Kenyon, and Bryan Stearns,as part of the original Macintosh development effort starting in late 1981. MacBASIC was released as beta software in 1985, and was adopted for use in places such. The Dungeon Revealed is a popular dungeon crawl computer game created by John Raymonds and published by Woodrose Editions in 1987.
A demo and shareware version of the game entitled The Dungeon of Doom were released in 1986 and 1987 respectively to promote the commercial release of 'The Dungeon Revealed' which came in 1987. Both were released for Mac OS, and were compatible with versions as late as System 7. 'The Dungeon Revealed' can still be played with Mac OS 10.4.10 in.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: The Dungeon Revealed, Macintosh, Apple macintosh, Shareware. Excerpt from 'A Short Guide To Shadow Keep v1.1' by Bob Nordling: 'Only the elder knights of Shadow Keep remember the Great Battle with the Evil Overlord, a battle in which The Black Sword, his powerful magical weapon, was lost by him in the heat of battle and his forces routed. Not Even in the dark corners of taverns do they whisper his name, especially not in the darkness. But through childhood tales, all in the kingdom have heard of that evil knight/magician, and his uncanny. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Shadow Keep, Mac, Macintosh, Apple Mac.
From Flushed with our success from Ishido, we decided to do it again, but bigger this time! The game would be the first in a trilogy, filled with new mind games of all sorts and wisdom from throughout the ages. More people joined the team, including Scott Kim, puzzlemaster, and Mark Ferrari, artist extraordinaire. It was an amazingly wonderful, creative experience, and I believe it shows through in the game. Original Version On the Web: You can. Topics: Apple, Apple Mac, Macintosh, Heaven & Earth.
This emulated Internet Archive item contains various HyperCard stacks recovered from a collection of Macintosh floppy disks owned by Richard Wanderman. With the assistance of Phillip Remaker, the contents of the floppies were extracted and placed on to Macintosh disk image files for digital preservation. All of the stacks are the original creations of Richard Wanderman. He was assisted on Ziggy Gets Out by Emmy Pellico (illustrations) and on Confusing Words, Word Parts, and Phonics Workout. Topics: Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Apple Mac, HyperCard. From Ishido was my first commercial software project, a contemplative solitaire game played with tiles. Michael Feinberg designed it and Brad Fregger, the producer, was nice enough to take a chance on me, an untried 17 year-old, to program it.
I ended up contributing much more than just programming to the game, and I'm still quite proud of it. Near the end of development, the publisher (Epyx) suddenly went bankrupt. Undaunted, we took the game. Topics: Ishido, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. You are Cap'n Lance Magneto, of the Intergalactic Rangers. You have been assigned to investigate the disappearance of several commercial trading ships in the vicinity of Rigel IV.
These disappearances are of more than ordinary concern. The 'Crown of Control', an archeological relic of an advanced ancient race, has recently disappeared and has been traced to the Menturg, an intergalactic criminal who makes his headquarters on a small planet orbiting this sun. It is believed that the.
Topics: Cap'n Magneto, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. This Internet Archive emulated Macintosh item contains two disk images; one 25MB boot volume with Macintosh System 7.5.3 installed, plus HyperCard 2.4 and Simpletext, and one 45MB Macintosh disk image containing a folder full of HyperCard stacks. Note: If icons within any given folder are piled on top of each other so as you can't see what they are or what the contents of the folder are, go to the 'View' menu in the toolbar and select 'By Name' to list the contents of folder.
Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, HyperCard. Requested/submitted by John Peterson, as follows: 'This is Iago, and what makes it interesting is it's one of the very first pieces of game shareware distributed independently of normal (professional) developer channels. It was obviously done as a labor of love, as there's very little attribution within the app itself. I distinctly remember playing it in 1984, just weeks after the very first 128K Macs came off the truck. It also followed all the rules as apps go, and kept running until. Topics: Iago, Macintosh, Apple Mac, Mac. This emulated Macintosh item contains two disk images; one boot disk with System 7.0.1 installed, and one 110MB disk with the first 35 MacFormat magazine cover floppies.
Much of the content of the floppies, particularly on the later ones, may not work with the emulated Mac Plus, requiring colour, higher processor than the first generation Macs, more RAM, etc. Don't fret over this; embrace it! It's the exact experience of helpless obsolescence millions of computer users would have experienced. Topics: Apple, Apple Mac, MacFormat, Macintosh. A wacky interactive cartoon where you play Sean, a character that seems to continuously find himself in bad situations.
New version includes a way to save the game to a file, a menubar, and other minor bug fixes. Now runs on Hypercard Player. From a forum post: 'This is a MacOS 9 emulator (for OSX - so I guess I'm mostly looking at Riff and Hotstuff). It has a few hoops to jump through to get it working. Drag the 'hypercard.sheepvm' onto 'Sheepshaver' to launch Hypercard in. Topics: Adventures Of Sean, HyperCard, Macintosh, Apple Mac.
TidBITS is an Apple Macintosh ezine, launched in 1990 by Adam and Tonya Engst. Tidbits has been published weekly since April 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. Adam announced the launch of TidBITS on 23rd April 1990 to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.mac: From: [email protected] Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: TidBITS - A HyperCard-based news journal. Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 90 16:14:58 GMT Distribution: comp Lines: 79 Posted: Mon Apr 23 17:14:58. Topics: TidBITS, Apple, Apple Mac, Macintosh.
Scarab of Ra is a graphic adventure game, long considered one of the classics of Macintosh shareware. Become an archaeology student, following the great explorer Mississippi Smith on his most challenging expedition! Scarab of RA combines a simple point-and-click user interface with a complex, long-lasting, and challenging game. It features three-dimensional, point-of-view graphics and full on-line help. It has been favorably reviewed in both Macworld and MacUser magazines, and is often selected. Topics: Macintosh, Apple Macintosh, Shareware, Scarab Of Ra.
Published by Ann Arbor Softworks, Inc. Developed by Ann Arbor Softworks, Inc. Released 1985 Platform Macintosh Genre Action Perspective Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Description At Alphie's Galactic Bar and Grill humans are not welcome. According to house rules those who enter has to compete in an electronic game called Grid Wars. If the player wins, the reward is to buy drinks to everyone in the bar and if he loses he's thrown out. There are fifteen levels in total each. About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM) was an Apple Macintosh oriented e-zine, first published in 1995.
Originally published in DocMaker self-contained reader format before transitioning to PDF and HTML/web formats during volume 5. This emulated Internet Archive item contains two disk images; one 25MB boot image with Mac System 7.5.3 installed and a second 50MB image containing all DocMaker editions.
Be patient whilst these images download. Pictures and graphics in each issue may not display. Topics: About This Particular Macintosh, ATPM, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, ezine. Ken Winograd is President and Founder of Space-Time Associates, a Merrimack, New Hampshire computer consulting company. In addition to computer and Internet consulting, Winograd is a programming specialist, who has authored programs such as TinyBooks Pro, Hangman Pro, Brickles Pro as well as a growing number of shareware, freeware and commercial programs Prior to founding Space-Time Associates in 1982, Winograd held various positions in the computer industry as Test Design Engineer, Software.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ). Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future' (1991) Five Floppy Here is a link to an online version (greatly expanded upon the original): www.streettech.com Here is an excerpt from the preface: 'When we began Beyond Cyberpunk! (BCP), there was no such thing as the World Wide Web. Hypermedia programs like Apple's HyperCard were the only way to inexpensively deliver hypertext with linked sounds, images, and animation.
We saw in HyperCard the opportunity to create a. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Beyond CyberPunk, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. IMPORTANT NOTE: This in-browser emulation system runs these games kind of slowly (they take a while to start, too - don't worry, they'll get there) and does not currently preserve modifications (such as creation of save files) between sessions. A modern Mac version of one of the games, A Mess 'o Trouble, with save support and other features besides is currently available for purchase for only 5$ here (bugfix info here ) with ports of the others (and to other systems) planned. A Macintosh System. Topics: mac, macintosh, mac classic, classic mac, ray dunakin, world builder, worldbuilder, william c. TidBITS is an Apple Macintosh ezine, launched in 1990 by Adam and Tonya Engst.
Tidbits has been published weekly since April 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. This emulated Internet Archive item contains issues 101 to 147 of TidBits (it was meant to be up to issue 150 but the final three issues I had were corrupt.), in Setext format. Setext can be viewed using the Easy View app, which is included in this item. Usage: Once the emulator has booted, open the. Topics: TidBITS, Apple, Apple Mac, Macintosh. Sid Meier’s Pirates!
Is a video game created by Sid Meier and developed and published by MicroProse in 1987. It was the first game to include the name 'Sid Meier' in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's earlier games, most of which were combat vehicle simulation video games. The game is a simulation of the life of a pirate, a privateer, or a pirate hunter in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Is set in the Caribbean. Playing field. Topics: Sid Meier, Pirates, Macintosh, Apple Mac.NOTE. This game has a copy protection feature.
When you start a game, you will be asked to enter a code, scans of the four codesheets are here: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4. SimCity lets you be the mayor of a city. Through careful planning, you can watch your city grow from a small village to a thriving metropolis. While SimCity 2000 was miles ahead of its precursor, the original SimCity still provides plenty of fun, and will even run on a Mac Plus. SimCity was published in 1989. Topics: SimCity, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. II in a Mac was the first Apple II emulator.
The emulator ran on a 512K Mac and was released in November 1985. Initially it could run Apple II+ programs, but later evolved to include IIc and IIe software. This was long before the appearance of the 1991 Apple IIe Card for the Mac LC. The emulator was created by Computer Applications, Inc., based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The company still seems to exist. User Manual - 45pp (17mb; high resolution PDF) ' Emulator Lets Apple II Programs Run. Favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Apple II, Mac, Macintosh, Emulator.USAGE NOTE: System sound is set at zero on boot, so before launching the game, open the Sound Control Panel via the Apple Menu and turn volume up!
This is a, hopefully, temporary bug. Please be advised that updated versions of Spelunx, Cosmic Osmo, and The Manhole for modern operating systems are available to purchase at the Steam Store, so please consider doing so; 'A magical, open-ended children's world, designed by the brothers who.
Topics: The Manhole, Macintosh, Apple, Apple Mac, HyperCard. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction video game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name.
It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, CP/M, MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari 8-bit family and Atari ST. It is Infocom's fourteenth game.
The game loosely mirrors a portion of the series' plot, representing most of the events in the first book. Arthur Dent wakes. Topics: Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Macintosh, Apple Macintosh. Lemmings is a puzzle - platformer video game originally developed by DMA Design and first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. The game was programmed by Mike Dailly and David Jones, and was inspired by a simple animation that Dailly created while experimenting with Deluxe Paint. The objective of the game is to guide a group of anthropomorphised lemmings through a number of obstacles to a designated exit.
To save the required number of lemmings to win, one must. Topics: Lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings, Macintosh, Apple Mac.USAGE NOTE: System sound is set at zero on boot, so before launching the game, open the Sound Control Panel via the Apple Menu and turn volume up! This is a, hopefully, temporary bug. Please be advised that updated versions of Spelunx, Cosmic Osmo, and The Manhole for modern operating systems are available to purchase at the Steam Store, so please consider doing so; Cosmic Osmo was created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who went on to. Topics: Cosmic Osmo, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh.
It’s a strange quirk that software becomes obsolete much quicker than hardware. You can still buy an for less that will read disks created on a Macintosh Classic from 1990. And yet there are apps written for that won’t run in just seven years later. Documents that you access regularly naturally survive the passage of time because they get migrated from one format to the next, as you upgrade your Mac. But the dusty box of floppy disks with that unfinished first novel in MacWrite and your father’s carefully researched family tree in an old version of FileMaker Pro are unreadable binary detritus on a modern Mac. Being able to run old software is the best way to rescue these files, but old Mac apps can be fun too. Even though we undoubtedly live in a golden era of computer and video games, there are still some genuinely worthy classics from the ’80s and ’90s.
And you don’t need to lovingly restore an actual Macintosh Plus just to play Lode Runner. Modern Macs easily have enough horsepower to emulate the older Mac operating systems. Many of the old 8-bit games are still surprisingly playable Virtually a PowerPC Let’s start with OS X.
A lot of apps originally developed for 10.5 Leopard or 10.6 Snow Leopard won’t run on later versions. Snow Leopard was also the last version of OS X to support PowerPC processors.
So, if you have any software that originally ran on a G3, G4 or G5 Mac, that’s as far as it could be upgraded. Unfortunately, running Snow Leopard isn’t as simple as just taking the original install DVD and putting the system on an external drive. An operating system from five years ago doesn’t have the right drivers for lots of the hardware on a modern Mac, such as a Retina display or USB 3.0 ports. Instead, you should use either. Either of these can create a virtual machine that runs within your existing OS and allows you to install and run a completely different operating system on top of that. The virtualisation software takes care of interfacing with your modern hardware, so it works even with older operating systems. The only tiny complication is that Apple’s licensing agreement doesn’t allow the regular edition of Snow Leopard to be installed on a virtual machine, so you need to buy a copy of Snow Leopard Server instead.
This works just the same as the regular edition of Snow Leopard (apart from some system administration features that you’ll never use) but handily, it will also install correctly under Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. You can pick up a copy of on eBay for about £50/$60/AU$85, as long as you avoid getting a copy with unlimited licences. Dark Castle was released in 1986 Perhaps you need to roll the clock back even further and run software designed for Mac OS 9? If you still have a Mac running 10.4 Tiger, you might be able to run them using the Classic environment, but this will only work on a Mac with a PowerPC processor. You can’t run the Classic environment on an Intel Mac, even if you’re running 10.4 from within Parallels or Fusion. For that, you’ll need to download. This curiously named utility emulates the PowerPC hardware so that you can install OS 9 – or even OS 8.
Because it’s emulating a different hardware architecture, SheepShaver needs to use the system ROM files from one of the older Macs. These are copyrighted by Apple, so you can’t legally use them unless you also own the physical Mac they came from.
ROM files for various older Mac models are available for download though, so you don’t need to go through the rigmarole of copying off the system ROM from that old G3-powered Mac in your loft. Once you have OS 9 running inside your emulator – see the walkthrough on the next page for step-by-step instructions – you’re ready to install some apps. Even if you no longer have the original disks for your software any more (or perhaps even a drive that will read them!) there are lots of apps that are classed as abandonware. This is a legally grey area whereby very old software that’s no longer available commercially is distributed for free by enthusiasts. It’s technically still software piracy, but the original copyright holder either can’t be traced or chooses not to enforce their copyright.
For software that’s 20 or more years old, some would argue that downloading it is an ethical act of software preservation. Maintains an extensive library of Mac abandonware, including some classic games from the ’90s. Apple’s Classic environment is an emulator of Mac OS 9 that was included with OS X up to 10.4 Tiger Installing old software Although you can download apps directly from the web browser running in OS 9, you’ll find it generally much easier to download the files in OS X and then move them across to the emulated OS 9 environment. SheepShaver uses a shared folder for this purpose; files you you place in that folder from OS X will appear in a virtual disk called ‘Unix’ on the OS 9 desktop. When you add a new file, you’ll need to close and reopen the Unix folder in OS 9 to see the changes. Most software you find online will in the form of ‘.sit’ files, which have been compressed using the StuffIt utility, and so you’ll need to enable you to double-click a sit file in OS X to expand it; you’ll then normally see a ‘.img’ disk image.
Mount these in the emulated OS 9 by adding them to the list of disks in SheepShaver’s preferences. When you quit SheepShaver and restart it, the disk image will appear on the OS 9 desktop, and you can open it and run the app’s installer. Back in ’94, Alone in the Dark scared the bejesus out of us Step back further in time Finally, if you want to get really retro, there are apps written back when Macs used the Motorola 68000-series of processors, before even the PowerPC chips. These models ran System 7 and earlier. Modern Macs have so much more computing power than these that you can run a faithful emulation of. This is a great way to give you a feel for what you’re letting yourself in for, but only a few apps and games are available this way.
To run anything else, you’ll need to install. As before, you’ll need to own a copy of the OS and the system ROM that you’re emulating.
Think of this as a more convenient way to access the software on an old Mac you already own, rather than a way of getting a whole extra virtual computer. Emulating your old Mac’s OS is also a great way to get at software on a Mac that no longer works – it’s a sort of virtual repair. Basilisk II can emulate a Macintosh Classic or a Macintosh II, and it can theoretically run operating systems all the way back to version 1.0 from 1984. In practice, System 6 is usually the furthest back you need to go. This ought to run virtually all software from the mid ’80s and has much better memory management than earlier versions.