Re: [B2-devel] Thoughts on SheepShaver and Basilisk II

[Charles S. <bas...@ch...>]

On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Frank Trampe wrote:

> SheepShaver is not a consumer tool for several reasons.
> 
> One is that there are already good products for most of what it does. Most people can find Windows or 68K versions of the games or applications that they need, so SheepShaver is not necessary for them. Other applications run nicely in the classic environment for O.S. X, so one can put 10.4 in a PearPC wrapper and run the stuff there.

Well, that’s not really true. The only other major Mac emulator is Mini vMac, and while it’s extremely good, it's mostly limited to very old applications from the 80s for the original black-and-white hardware. The support for Mac II, and color in general, was still quite unfinished the last time I looked at it, and there’s no support for the 68030 or 68040 at all. For a lot of early 90s Mac stuff, the only emulator that has a serious chance of working as it stands is Basilisk II/SheepShaver.

The other thing is that, as I understand it, the classic environment does not run in PearPC, so wrapping it in such a manner wouldn’t work.

Charles