[B2-devel] Sheepshaver on a G5

[Eric A. H. <eah...@lo...>]

Hi there,

I've acquired a G5 somewhat recently, and discovered that, yes indeed, 
Classic isn't as compatible as all that.  So, having had pretty good 
luck with SheepShaver in the past, I tried the pre-compiled OSX version 
that Gwenole has available for download.

Well, it does work!  Pretty much.  The application unexpectedly quits 
when I launch it, except it doesn't...MacOS boots right up in a window, 
though the SheepShaver menu doesn't work, so it has to be force-quit if 
you want it to stop.  The graphics in 800x600 mode are messed 
up...completely so if I have OSX running in millions of colors, 
partially so in 256 colors, and SheepShaver won't run at all if I'm 
using thousands of colors.  With 640x480, everything is fine.

I haven't tried compiling from source yet to see if that gets rid of 
any of those problems.  Sound support would be useful, but so far this 
is looking quite promising as a more compatible replacement for Classic 
on recent Macs.

--Eric