SheepShaver

SheepShaver is a free Apple Power Macintosh emulator for various operating systems and processors. The name SheepShaver is an allusion to ShapeShifter, a 68K Macintosh emulator for the Amiga. ShapeShifter was originally written by Christian Bauer, the lead developer of the later 68K Macintosh emulators Basilisk Basilisk I and II. ShapeShifter was replaced by Basilisk II. SheepShaver is in turn the successor of Basilisk II SheepShaver is based inter alia on Basilisk II

SheepShaver currently supports Mac OS 7.5.2 through 8.6 as a guest system, and experimental versions of Mac OS 9.0.4. Mac OS X is not supported.

SheepShaver is available since 1998. You can download the compiled versions for the host systems Linux / PPC or BeOS, Darwin OS from the homepage. Unofficial versions support the G4 AltiVec emulation and the host platforms including Microsoft Windows (x86 and AMD64/EM64T ), Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.

SheepShaver was until 20 December 2005 ( the new version 0.4.0 of PearPC is now available with G4 processor and AltiVec support ) the only one available on the market emulator with G4 and AltiVec support. In addition, the just- in-time emulation runs at 1/8 the speed of the original machine. SheepShaver runs on Pentium 4 processors since November 2003. He is currently the only way to run compiled for PowerPC Classic applications on Intel Macs.