Help with SheepShaver?

po lu

I recently installed 2 copies of SS onto 1 computer and 1 copy says: Cannot map RAM: No error and when I restart it is OK but after another restart it does it again :evil: :evil: what is wrong? Any help?
Copy NO.1 PATH: \SHEEPSHAVER
Copy NO.2 PATH: E:\SHEEPSHAVEROS8 (MOVED TO E:\SHEEPPOO)
Thanks.
-Po Lu

TCPMeta

After a quick google search I found your answer. SheepShaver reserves the memory that you select for the emulated system. In other words if you have say 1GB of physical memory in the computer and you want SheepShaver to use say 128MB you need 128MB free that the system isn't using. Also this error happens when you quit SheepShaver and restart it after another program has entered into that reserved memory space.

So you have three options. Kill programs in the background you're not using to free up memory. Use less memory in SheepShaver or add more memory to your PC.

po lu

TCPMeta wrote:

After a quick google search I found your answer. SheepShaver reserves the memory that you select for the emulated system. In other words if you have say 1GB of physical memory in the computer and you want SheepShaver to use say 128MB you need 128MB free that the system isn't using. Also this error happens when you quit SheepShaver and restart it after another program has entered into that reserved memory space.

So you have three options. Kill programs in the background you're not using to free up memory. Use less memory in SheepShaver or add more memory to your PC.

NO. Only restarting helps! Also go >>Here (Emaculation forums)<<

TCPMeta

If you have to reboot to re-run a program then that is a issue that should be addressed.

calvinb

SheepShaver does extremely hacky tricks. Modern Linux kernels are becoming incompatible with the way it handles memory.

It's a shitshow of an emulator. I'd wait until QEMU gets mature Power Mac support.

TCPMeta

If it's PPC emulation you want I would use PearPC.

calvinb

PearPC (poorly) emulates only enough to start OS X.

Bry89

Then in that case... would QEMU be any good? I am aware it's more complicated to use than the other two but it's worth a shot. I've been wanting to emulate the Mac stuff too but never got round doing it, even with QEMU.

I wish VMWare or VirtualBox had full Mac support

po lu

Then in that case... would QEMU be any good? I am aware it's more complicated to use than the other two but it's worth a shot. I've been wanting to emulate the Mac stuff too but never got round doing it, even with QEMU.

I wish VMWare or VirtualBox had full Mac support

SheepShaver is good as long as you open it up in some editor and change something. :+)

po lu

Bry89 wrote:

...Qemu...

(Seems like dJangoBB Does not work with phpBB) :-(
I don't use use anything without a GUI

calvinb

> I don't use use anything without a GUI

You're not getting far.

QEMU is still being worked on for PPC. Wait.

dosbox

Which version of Sheepshaver where you using? I'm using the one from the e-maculation forums and I've had no issues so far.

garirry

Bry89 wrote:

I wish VMWare or VirtualBox had full Mac support

Apple's policies actually do not allow OS X virtualization on non-Apple computers, so there won't be any "big" programs on Windows or Linux that can virtualize it easily, you'll have to do some weird stuff to get it to work.

calvinb

It does with a patch, but OS X is painful without full HW accel. And if you mean classic Mac OS, absolutely not happening.

po lu

dosbox wrote:

Which version of Sheepshaver where you using? I'm using the one from the e-maculation forums and I've had no issues so far.

I'm using the same.

Bry89

garirry wrote:

Bry89 wrote:

I wish VMWare or VirtualBox had full Mac support

Apple's policies actually do not allow OS X virtualization on non-Apple computers, so there won't be any "big" programs on Windows or Linux that can virtualize it easily, you'll have to do some weird stuff to get it to work.

Yes, I know that. Hackintoshes they call it.

dosbox

ampharos wrote:

It does with a patch, but OS X is painful without full HW accel. And if you mean classic Mac OS, absolutely not happening.

I used the unlocker patch tool for wmware player 12, and I tried running OS X El Capitan in a VM but it kept crashing.

BlueSun

I run an El Capitan VM on ESXi and performance is actually not that bad. Better than Yosemite. Not as fast as real hardware, but certainly usable.

OS X still sucks though. :P

dosbox

BlueSun wrote:

....OS X still sucks though. :P

True, but that doesn't keep me from being curious though.

garirry

I'm genuinely curious why you dislike OS X (and no answers like "because it's a pile of shit" or "because it sucks").

TCPMeta

I can do pretty much the same things in OSX as I can with Windows and Linux.

po lu

TCPMeta wrote:

I can do pretty much the same things in OSX as I can with Windows and Linux.

Hey, guys, was this thread about Sheepshaver or OS X?
Meanwhile, problem solved by E-Maculation Forums.
And I now have 15 copies of SheepShaver.

TCPMeta

Both......

garirry

garirry wrote:

I'm genuinely curious why you dislike OS X (and no answers like "because it's a pile of shit" or "because it sucks").

Hmm, two weeks and still no answer. I wonder why...

calvinb

u wot m8 fite me irl

My problems with OS X are bad resource management, which I hear has been fixed on El Cap. There's a few papercuts in the UI as well.

Bry89

Maybe those are the same reasons BlueSun despises it too? Well personally, I never had any problems with OS X other than it running like crap under PearPC. Then again, I primarily used it during my college days.

And considering Po Lu's problem had been solved a while ago, I think this thread no longer serves a purpose other than some of us talking about something slightly off-topic.