[rescue] suggestions on the ultimate Mac OS 9 system?

Nemo cym224 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 20:15:55 CDT 2011


On 16 March 2011 16:48,  <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:
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>
> Depending upon what you want, you can run MacOS up to 9.0.4 on Intel systems
> using SheepShaver. Just about everything works, but some of the
> specialty graphics don't.
> Performance is the usual for an emulator, you get about 200mHz of emulated
> PPC speed for each gHz of Intel speed. SheepShaver will multithread, so if
> you have a multicore system, it will run faster.

Now that is interesting.  At some point, we will have to give up our
beloved G5s but we are not too keen on buying new s/w to replace the
working OS 9 stuff.  What do you mean by the speciality graphics?


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