

Your best bet is to stay with Mac OS X 10.4.11 running on a fast G5. In the end, if you need serious interaction with a Classic application, That all these solutions are free to try, so you are not out any money if you

For these reasons, we will focusĮxclusively on SheepShaver and Basilisk from this point onward. Each of the remainingĮmulators we reviewed have serious defects, making them unworthy of furtherĬonsideration: The current versions of SoftMac and PearPC do not work properly on the Mac, Executor and Mini vMac emulate very ancient Macintosh computers, and Mac-on-Mac and PearPC do not run Classic at all. Run on PowerPC-based Macs, Intel-based Macs and Windows. Basilisk behaves very much like SheepShaver with the exception that it is a 68K emulator. Can you give me a summary of the emulators you reviewed?Įmulator which can run Classic, making it the most important one to consider. I have received the most email on these articles, so this month, weĬonclude by summarizing our findings and handling some Q & A.ġ. Of additional emulators, such as Mac-on-Mac, PearPC, Executor and SoftMac. We explored optimization settings for these, as well as discuss the viability We examined three open source applications: SheepShaver, Basilisk & Mini vMac, detailing OS X 10.5 Leopard user who wishes to continue running Classic applications. Running Classic on Leopardįebruary 2008 by Jonathan the past two months, we have been investigating solutions for the Mac
