Re: [B2-devel] How do I play games in SheepShaver?

[Frank T. <fra...@gm...>]

As Ronald mentions, this list is not really for general support. From an
implementation perspective, though, I do have a few suggestions.

If you are trying to run software that was also available for Windows, I
would advise that you instead try running the Windows versions of Baldur's
gate in Wine or in a Wintel emulator. SheepShaver and other Macintosh
emulators are still a bit rough and do not have full hardware graphics
acceleration.

If you do need a working copy of SheepShaver for 10.6 or later, try
installing this (
http://www.4shared.com/file/WZkaMsut/SheepShaver-23-Chicago-2012061.html )
in /Applications. You will need to supply your own boot volume image at
/Applications/SheepShaver-2.3/Support/Classic_Drive_1.img. The SheepShaver
Assistant generates a profile for you.

I have a few notes below as well. In order to keep the list uncluttered, it
might be best if you posted any additional responses just to me instead of
to the list.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Pål Hart <mon...@ya...> wrote:

> Sorry to bother you, but this email is listed under support on the
> SheepShaver official website. Emaculation forum is also listed but its
> complete garbage; It says my email is already used so I can't register but
> it has no way to recover my username/password and it has no support and I'm
> not willing to make anymore effort than that to use their website.
>
> So, I did a search the other day for an OS 9 emulator, specifically for
> the purpose of playing Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, and a couple other
> OS 9 games I miss playing. I found this video (
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrT9_4Jdbs) which contains a link to a
> RapidShare dl of SheepShaver. I've heard of SheepShaver before, but the
> Download link on the official website doesn't have a link to download the
> app in this way, and its not worth additional effort so I never got the
> program.
>
> The problem is there's only half a gig on the disc image that the program
> boots from.


You can rectify this by generating a new system boot volume or by adding an
additional volume. Use dd if=/dev/zero (with other options such as count
and bs as necessary) in order to make an empty disk image of the size
desired. Add that image as a disk line to ~/.sheepshaver_prefs (preferably
after the original drive). Launch SheepShaver. Tell it to initialize the
new volume. You can then copy stuff to it, including the System folder. If
you make the new disk bootable, you can remove the old one from
~/.sheepshaver_prefs.

Alternatively, you can install stuff into UNIX directories. (This works
better on Mac O.S. than on Linux for reasons that I have not had the
opportunity to explore.)

Now, I can add 1 game to it (Baldur's Gate Tales of The Sword Coast in this
> case) however it requires a disc to play, and the disc mounts on my OSX
> desktop which isn't acknowledged in the OS9 environment.


As Ronald mentions, Lion seems to have some problems with this.


> I tried making a disc image, but it can't be put onto it because of space
> limitation. Navigating to it through "Unix" I couldn't run the dmg anyway.
> So I downloaded a little program called Disk Copy 6.4 that claimed to allow
> OS9 to run .dmg, however when I try I get an error -50.
>
> Dump the disk into a flat image file via dd. (You can determine the device
name of the disk in Disk Utility; it is probably /dev/disk1.) Copy that
file (so that the original never gets modified), and mount it in
SheepShaver. SheepShaver ought to allow you to drag-and-drop disk images
for mounting. If that does not work for you, you can add the disk to your
configuration file at ~/.sheepshaver_prefs as mentioned previously.


> I'm running Lion in a late '09 MBP (I also have an '07 24" iMac AL) but
> I'm upgrading to Mountain Lion tomorrow. I use my iMac as my
> desktop/storage comp so I have a 2.5TB drive on it so I'm going to make a
> partition and install SL on it, so I can run PPC games and apps using
> Rosetta. Will SheepShaver run better on SL?


Aside from the CD-ROM issue, I have not seen a difference in stability or
performance.


> Both my comps are intel otherwise I'd install Tiger on a partition too.
> Thank you for taking the time to read and reply to this message.
>
>                         Sincerely,
>                                 -Pål Hart
>
>
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