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ROM file I used the technique described in a different tutorial, where you download the Mac OS ROM Update disk image and use AppleвЂ™s Tome Viewer utility to extract the ROM file from it. YouвЂ™ll also probably need a machine that can run Classic, in order to obtain a YouвЂ™ll need a generic (not hardware-specific) installation CD for the system youвЂ™d like to run (I used a Mac OS 9.0.4 installer that I had lying around). The best way to get started is through the resources at the E-Maculation Web site, which provides a particularly good step-by-step tutorial (as well as forums where I have received very courteous and accurate technical advice). I must warn you that setting up SheepShaver is not for the faint of heart, and giving detailed instructions is beyond the scope of this article. (There is another program, BasiliskII, with a parallel history, that emulates a 68000 processor and lets you run System 7.5 through Mac OS 8.1, but I havenвЂ™t tried it.) Unlike AppleвЂ™s Classic environment, which integrated its windows with Mac OS XвЂ™s windows, SheepShaver displays all the older systemвЂ™s windows inside its own single application window, as if SheepShaver were acting as the monitor of an old Mac you shouldвЂ™t find this at all inconvenient or disconcerting, especially if youвЂ™ve ever used screen sharing under Mac OS X. SheepShaver lets you run any older system between Mac OS 8.5 and Mac OS 9.0.4. (Versions that run on Windows and Linux also exist.) The Mac version of SheepShaver is a universal binary, so it runs natively on an Intel-based Mac. It started life over 10 years ago as a commercial application for BeOS, but it is now open source and free, and is a clear testament to what the dedication of a few knowledgeable volunteers can accomplish. SheepShaver is a PowerPC emulator that runs under Mac OS X. But even there вЂ“ even on an Intel machine, even under Snow Leopard вЂ“ I can run an older Mac OS, enjoy my older applications, and read and edit my older documents, by using SheepShaver. But all of that is a lot of trouble, because IвЂ™m not usually using those machines IвЂ™m usually using my Intel-based Mac mini, and running Snow Leopard. I also have two PowerPC-based Macs that run Tiger and therefore have Classic. For certain applications that wonвЂ™t run properly even under Classic, I have several ancient (by computer standards) machines that can actually boot into Mac OS 9. If, like me, you still have an older application or document that youвЂ™d occasionally like to open, what can you do? I actually have three different approaches.

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Classic reached the end of its life in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger later versions of Mac OS X donвЂ™t include Classic, and Classic doesnвЂ™t run on Intel machines at all. But this solution was fated not to last forever. To solve this problem, Apple tided its users over with Classic, an environment that emulated Mac OS 9 within Mac OS X. Were users doomed to lose access to all their older applications and documents? Recent Mac OS 9 applications that had been вЂњCarbonizedвЂќ might run natively under Mac OS X, but older applications certainly would not.

Mac OS X was a completely different operating system from its predecessors (Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, System 7). In the run-up to the original release of Mac OS X, users were justifiably worried about compatibility.

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