- #MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 MAC OS#
- #MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 WINDOWS 7#
- #MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 ZIP#
- #MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 FREE#
#MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 MAC OS#
To do this legally, you need to get a copy of your Mac's ROM, a disk image of your Mac OS install disk or bootable hard drive, and that's about it. It's very cool, and i recommend it to anyone with a need or curiosity.
#MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 WINDOWS 7#
It takes a lot of fiddling but i now have Mac OS 9.0.4 running on my Windows 7 desktop, with a 1 GB HDD, access to my Windows filesystem, internet access, etc. But what i needed was SheepShaver, a PowerPC-based variant of Basilisk. A comment by username below mentioned Basilisk, an open source classic Mac (68xxx) emulator for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. So now that i have my old Mac files on Windows, what do i do with them? Some are usable by Windows software, but not all of them. Upvoting other good answers but accepting this one. Some of the files moved to my Windows system are useless-in the cases where it's a proprietary application format.
After all this, i'm toying with just buying a newer used or refurbished Mac to deal with file format issues. It's apparent that sometimes a solution to the problem at hand isn't a solution to the real problem. Thank goodness for NameCleaner.Ī note to anyone in a similar situation. So, in the end, just manually futzing around, renaming and moving the files. Followed several online guides on making AppleShare work with Windows systems and it was a bust. I also messed around with File Sharing with no success.
#MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 ZIP#
I've tried various zip solutions with no success-various frustrating problems that led me further into the weeds without solving the problem.
What i'm doing is continuing with the ftp approach, but doing it by manually rooting around, dragging the files to NameCleaner set to fix the names (changes invalid chars like / to valid chars like !, etc.), then dragging the files to Fetch 4. Okay, there has got to be a better way, but i haven't found it. Update: added info on SheepShaver to the bottom of this answer.
#MAC OS EMULATOR ON WIN 7 FREE#
If you just want to get the files into SheepShaver, and you have enough free space on the old Mac's hard drive for another copy of the files you want to transfer, the easiest way to get all the original file names and resource forks across intact is to use a disk image file: Can I make Win7 way more flexible with filenaming, or is this failing because of an FTP convention?Įdit: Once the old Mac files are on the Windows system, is there a Mac OS 9 emulation solution for Windows? It'd be nice to be able to use the Mac files. I am not a Mac or networking wizard, so maybe there's a way to share files that I'm missing. Is there some setting I can use to make this work better, or maybe another method of transfer? Or, am I stuck with the hit and miss tedium of doing this bit by bit? I'm using Fetch 4 on the Mac and FileZilla server on the PC. Though I can copy a file at a time or select a bunch and copy them, I would like to select entire folders without getting "501 Syntax Error" errors and invalid filename errors on some file tucked in some folder deep in the trees. The Mac is running OS 9 and, after some fiddling around for a while, I am able to copy files over to Windows via FTP. Today I fired up a PowerMac 9500 that's been sitting dormant for 10 years, and I want to copy the data files over to my Windows 7 system (NTFS).