SheepShaver in Full-Screen Mode: Whoah Dude!

[Hardcore SysOp]

I've been running the SheepShaver Mac PPC emulator for I guess about a month now. I use it to run my old Hermes II BBS, as well as my old Hotline server.

However, it wasn't until a few minutes ago that I got curious and decided to up the screen resolution to "maximum" in both height and width.

I discovered that if you do this, you have to shut down SheepShaver, and restart it, in order for the new resolution to take effect. In other words, just using the "Restart" option under the "Special" menu doesn't work apparently. You have to choose "Shutdown" instead.

Also, when you do this, you may possibly also have to type the following in the OS X Terminal in order to delete your current ethernet bridge:

sudo ifconfig bridge0 destroy

Once you do that, if you are using a shell script to launch SheepShaver, go ahead and fire it up, and then just look at that big beautiful OS 9 desktop running clear across your 24" or 27" iMac screen. For a minute, you'll think that you are running native!

Hey, but it is really just emulation.

Take that Apple, for removing Classic mode from your newer machines!!! 

 

[Powertrip]

Nice!

 

[Hardcore SysOp]

Here is a little trick that I recently learned over at the emaculation.com forums:

In SheepShaver, you can toggle between full-screen mode and regular window mode, just by typing Control-Return. Not only that, but when you do this, there is no need to restart SheepShaver.

 

[Cory5412]

In the bad old days of Mac emulation, on a 486 PC with a 640x480 display, full screen was the only reasonable way to do it. For a while, I had a machine that I pretty much exclusively used for Mac emulation, under either Windows 95 or NT 4.0. (Not a very long time, but a brief while.)

How reliable are Basilisk and SheepShaver these days? Does anybody have any experience with them on Windows? It might be slightly more convenient (and physically reliable) than digging out a disk for the TiBook.

 

[markyb86]

I use Basilisk on Windows 8.1 (been using on on 7 SP1 as well.) I'd say it works pretty good, however it has it's random lockup, which also locks the disk image you have booted from. I've been thinking of making a read only boot disk for it, and then having the applications on another disk. The only way I have found to unlock the disks is to open them up in HFVExplorer. 

Now the thing with Windows is, you can't use the ethernet emulation on 64-bit Windows. For that, I have not found a solution.

 

[Cory5412]

Hm... good to know. This almost sounds like a great use case for one of the many inexpensive Windows tablets on the market these days, which usually have 32-bit Windows on them.