SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by turnsout on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:05PM (#43407599)

It’s too bad there isn’t more momentum in the Mac emulation scene. It seems like it stalled out with SheepShaver and Basilisk II. The only new thing is “make it run in JS.”

I would love to see an emulator that could run later OS versions like Tiger.

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Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by cosmic_cheese on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:18PM (#43407673)

qemu-ppc can run PPC versions of OS X. This is a good place to get started: https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/qemu

I’ve personally run as new as Tiger with it. Takes a little bit to start up but after that it’s reasonably responsive.

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Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by tengbretson on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:47PM (#43407805)

For Tiger and beyond wouldn't the hackintosh images in VirtualBox give you what youre looking for?

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Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by compton93 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:15PM (#43407653)

PearPC?

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Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by lproven on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:21AM (#43409764)

> I would love to see an emulator that could run later OS versions like Tiger.

UTM.

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

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Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by helfire on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:09AM (#43413022)

Very active new PPC emulator project https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc

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Re:SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emu... by turnsout on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:36PM (#43414250)

Follow-up: Thanks for all the links, everyone! I haven't been keeping up, but it looks like there's more momentum than I realized.

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