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The front end requires 32-bit support and definitely doesn’t build on 10.14.

Well... poop. That's what I get for staying up to date.

I've wanted to run Mac OS 8 on my current Macs for a while now, but the current batch of emulators have been far too complicated for my casual uses. This will hopefully be the key, once it's brought up to 64 bits.

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You may wish to try out SheepSaver if you haven't already. There are some tutorials that make the process relatively simple, booting to Finder in a few minutes.

You may wish to try out SheepSaver if you haven't already

I have. I lost half a day trying to make it work and gave up. This was while ago. Maybe it's better now.

You have to upgrade the libraries and recompile it. A friend did it for me for Windows 10. It runs MacOS 8 but the web browser is out of date. I think there is a pay one named iCab that works.

There are some really great self contained pre-built SheepShaver OS9 appliances. I don't suggest building your own unless you need to.

Columbia University offers this one: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html

Direct download: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/Mac%20OS%209.zip

You can have an OS9 VM up and running in minutes.

These support networking: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/7751-sheepshaver-ppc-emu... https://www.macintoshrepository.org/15339-sheepshaver-packag...

I'll try the Columbia one. Macintosh Repository doesn't allow those files to be downloaded without signing up for an account, and I'm not all that interested in signing up for yet another account unless I know it's worth it.

Even better, the latest QEMU can now run Mac OS 9.2.2 with sound, networking, and excellent speed.

On 10.13, tried to build, bit by: 'CarbonSound/CarbonSound.h' file not found

Appears, from a quick Google search, to be a common deprecated-SDK issue.

Can you send me or post the build errors? As a guess, you could try commenting out includes of <Sound.h> and calls to SysBeep().

I'll try again when I get home this evening.

Have you tried qemu? It works great if you're okay with Mac OS 9 instead of 8.

I was able to build it fine on 10.14.2 ‍️

That was unexpected, but great news. Did it run?

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