In the meantime, I'm going to go put my aluminum foil hat to make sure that Matt stops reading my mind. If you're up to the challenge and fun of setting up SheepShaver on a Snow Leopard Mac, be sure to take a look at both Matt's post and the E-Maculation website. While my client loved the solution I was able to provide to her, running Classic under Snow Leopard might be a better (and more fun!) solution for other Mac users. Matt pointed out a website, E-Maculation, that is dedicated to Mac emulators and how to get them up and running. Neuburg does a good job of explaining the process of getting a ROM image, then using a Mac OS 9 installer CD to get SheepShaver up and running. This oddly-named application is a PowerPC Mac emulator, one of several that are available for both Mac and Windows. Yesterday I was looking at posts over on the venerable Mac website TidBITS, and blogger/author Matt Neuburg had written a post about SheepShaver.

Being the forward-looking guy I am, I suggested that we just move the data from her old HyperCard stack over to Bento (simple), and then see if we could find a replacement for the other application into which her employees could re-enter the old data. All of the Pearl Linux releases are modeled from Mac OS X Snow Leopard addition. Pearl Linux 3.5 32 bit will install on most new and used desktops, laptops, notebooks and netbooks. Well, imagine my surprise when I copied the iso to a USB stick, stuck it into my 2008 MacBook Pro and it worked beautifully. The complete OS X styled operating system ready to go with the best open source software available today. Having seen the negative reviews, I thought Id give it a go and see what happens. I'm beginning to think that some other writers on the Mac beat are reading my mind.Ībout two weeks ago, one of my consulting clients was asking if there was any way that she'd be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard and still be able to run two legacy applications in Classic, one of which was HyperCard. Snow Leopard is the gateway to update your Mac to a newer operating system via Apple Purchases.

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