16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
7:07 p.m.
The worst part is, SheepShaver was a commercial
product.
Oh, I know. I *know*. I have the commercial SheepShaver running on the BeBox!
The problem is that the BeBox really isn't up to the task, at least not OS
8.6. I did get some more RAM for it and I'm going to try to tinker with
the settings, but it's pretty glacial and it pegs the core(s). They're just
603s and that's probably why.
I've been really
tempted to look into an old enough PowerBook that it will run something in
the System 8.0 to 8.6 range. That would run all the Classic software I want
just fine. It wouldn't even need much RAM. Basically my needs are
ClarisDraw, the original Master of Orion and Warlords 2. For those games
the Mac versions are vastly superior to the PC versions since they allow for
larger video resolutions. Warlords 2 is the tricky one, it stopped working
right sometime during 8.x or 9. My only Mac laptop is a PowerBook 540c
which is 640x480, and I'd like something with higher resolution. I bought
it used as it was cheaper than getting the screen on my 520c fixed.
I bet an early G3 iBook would do the trick. You could run 8.1 on that, like
a Rev B blueberryBook or something. I have exactly that, with 576MB of RAM,
and it's *very* happy in OS 9.2.2. :) My primary OS 9 machines, though, are
a dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD and a 867MHz TiBook G4. They do very, very well! :-D
If there were
an Amiga PPC laptop, I'd buy it today. I was really impressed
with the ports to OS 4.1, and Origyn covers the Internet aspects.
For me the software isn't there. Anymore I have two options, Windows or Mac
OS X since my main apps are Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Besides the
price to performance ratio on the Amiga's is whacked. I didn't realize 4.1
was out. Any new hardware?