16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
6:52 p.m.
A few people in our lab needed access to an OS 9 era
program called
StatView on their Intel-based Macs (currently running 10.6.1) so I
installed SheepShaver (specifically something called "Classic on
Intel") which provides a Classic-like Mac OS 9.2.2 environment. So far
everything is working perfectly. In fact, the users are quite pleased
because StatView runs considerably faster under ShapeShaver on their
current Macs than it did on the hardware it was originally run on.
Using an older, non-supported version of OS X just wasn't an option.
SheepShaver is great *for those apps that work with it*. The problem is there
are a lot of apps that just don't, and it has no MMU, so apps requiring 9.1
and 9.2 need not apply. It also has quite a number of crash bugs.
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