Okay, so it's not quite 2020 yet, but fairly close. <-- Wow. The editor saved this unfinished post; evidently, I intended to post this a long time ago.
I am curious what are the best options for emulating older Macs oncurrent Macs macOS Catalina?
I have had good luck running Basilisk II version 1.0 (Mac OS X port 19) under Mac OS X 10.6.8. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is sound. Also, I use Virtual ][ for Apple IIe emulation. (I've also run Virtual ][ on a machine with macOS 10.13 but I can't seem to get it to run as well as the version that works under 10.6.8.) I also use Mini vMac, but that has been the least stable of them. Sweet16 also seems to work well for Apple IIGS emulation, but I can't say that I've done a lot with it.
Basically, I use the following:
Apple IIe: Virtual ][
Apple IIGS: Sweet16
Mac Classic (pre-System 7): Mini vMac
Mac Classic (System 7, 68030 or 68040): Basilisk II
I don't have anything to emulate a PowerPC Mac which I will probably need/want at some point.
I have seen QEMU mentioned in another thread along with SheepShaver. I thought maybe I tried SheepShaver once, but I don't remember for certain.
The problem I have had with Mini vMac is that it seems to crash a lot and, when it does, it makes any .dsk that were mounted within it unusable. So, each time I use it, I have to make sure to have a backup of each and every .dsk image I want to use in it. This has been with the 3.4.1 version; don't recall if I've tried newer versions under macOS 10.13.
I am curious as to what emulators people are having success with under Catalina. I'm checking through all my apps to see what will run under Catalina, so thought I'd solicit some feedback on how emulators are doing on it.
Thanks!
I am curious what are the best options for emulating older Macs on
I have had good luck running Basilisk II version 1.0 (Mac OS X port 19) under Mac OS X 10.6.8. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is sound. Also, I use Virtual ][ for Apple IIe emulation. (I've also run Virtual ][ on a machine with macOS 10.13 but I can't seem to get it to run as well as the version that works under 10.6.8.) I also use Mini vMac, but that has been the least stable of them. Sweet16 also seems to work well for Apple IIGS emulation, but I can't say that I've done a lot with it.
Basically, I use the following:
Apple IIe: Virtual ][
Apple IIGS: Sweet16
Mac Classic (pre-System 7): Mini vMac
Mac Classic (System 7, 68030 or 68040): Basilisk II
I don't have anything to emulate a PowerPC Mac which I will probably need/want at some point.
I have seen QEMU mentioned in another thread along with SheepShaver. I thought maybe I tried SheepShaver once, but I don't remember for certain.
The problem I have had with Mini vMac is that it seems to crash a lot and, when it does, it makes any .dsk that were mounted within it unusable. So, each time I use it, I have to make sure to have a backup of each and every .dsk image I want to use in it. This has been with the 3.4.1 version; don't recall if I've tried newer versions under macOS 10.13.
I am curious as to what emulators people are having success with under Catalina. I'm checking through all my apps to see what will run under Catalina, so thought I'd solicit some feedback on how emulators are doing on it.
Thanks!