lofstudio wrote:
Save2600-- have you tried SheepShaver for classic emulation?
Multiple times I have tried running SheepShaver on my Intel Mac at work. It just crashes and crashes. I have plenty of experience with ShapeShifter and Fusion on the Amiga, as well as with actual 68k and PPC Mac hardware, so I'm pretty sure the instability of these two apps is just the fault of the apps themselves. One of them I got to "chime" but it would crash when I asked it to boot from CD.
There is very little reason to run SheepShaver or Basilisk II on a PowerPC Mac. Just run 10.4 and use Classic mode. If you need 10.5, partition your drive and have 10.5 on one partition and 10.4 on the other. If you need to run Classic, be under 10.4. If you have some piece of software which requires 10.5, boot into 10.5.
My guess is you'll be running under 10.4 more often... 10.5 is still kind of buggy and does indeed "feel" a little pokier on PowerPC hardware...
The only reason you'd want to run the emulators is if you have some software which won't run in Classic because it is too old, like some software which has been broken since System 7 came out, or since the PowerPC transition. If that is really a sticking point with you, eBay an SE/30 or something.
- t
