SheepShaver

SheepShaver was originally commercial software when first released in 1998, but after the demise of Be Inc., the maker of BeOS, it became open source in 2002.; however, it runs more slowly on an x86 system than on a PowerPC system, because of the translation between the PowerPC and Intel x86 instruction sets. SheepShaver has been ported to both Microsoft Windows and Linux. As free software, a few variants exist to simplify the installation process on Intel-based Macs: • 'Sheep Shaver Wrapper' is built off of Sheep Shaver but it does some of the bundling work for the user. • 'Chubby Bunny' also simplifies the set up process of OS 9 visualization on Intel Macs running OS X. SheepShaver was "incredibly popular within the vintage Macintosh software community" according to Wiley's 2016 Companion to Digital Art. ==Features==

SheepShaver is capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4), and can be run inside a window so that the user can run classic Mac OS and either BeOS, Intel-based Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows applications at the same time. Although SheepShaver does have Ethernet support and CD-quality sound output, it does not emulate the memory management unit. This precludes support for versions 9.1 through 9.2.2, the final release. While adding MMU emulation has been discussed, the feature has not been added because of the time and effort required in implementing it. == See also ==