So I found out about MacintoshGarden, and was interested in trying a couple of the games. I had a (not very) good time setting up the emulator (as someone who’s not super familiar with Mac history or anything), and thought I’d write it down here.
Grab the source code, I used kanjitalk755’s repo, for no real good reason except the main guide I was looking at used it.
Run the commands as listed in the Linux/SheepShaver section, I needed to
install libsdl2-dev as well.
When running make after configuring, I got
undefined reference to symbol 'XDisplayName', which you can fix by sticking
-lX11 on the end of line 23 of the makefile:
LIBS = -lpthread -lm -lSDL2 -lX11
At this point make succeeded, but I needed a ROM. I grabbed the
newworld86.ro At this point make succeeded, but I needed a ROM. I grabbed
thenewworld86.rom.zipfrom [Redundant Robot's guide][4], as well as
OS9.0.0.iso` (you could probably go straight for the installer, but I
ran the pre-installed image first for testing and stuff).
First run: Cannot map Low Memory Globals: Invalid agument error, this can
be fixed temporarily by running sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr="0" as root
I ran SheepShaver --rom newworld86.rom, and got
ERROR: Cannot obtain appropriate X visual., the forums didn’t really help,
got the usual ‘run it as sudo :)’ fix (which didn’t work anyway). The error
message seems to only be used once, at video_x.cpp:923. A bit of poking
around in that file made me realise I should probably recompile with the
DEBUG macro set to 1. When I did that… it worked…, I think maybe the
build failing had somehow borked it? I disabled debug, cleaned and ran again
and I got a window with a laggy cursor!
Now run SheepShaver --rom newworld86.rom --cdrom OS9.img
Oops, apparently there isn’t enough ram available to run Shutdown, better
fix that (and also the cursor): SheepShaver --rom newworld86.rom --cdrom
OS9.img --ramsize 1000000000 --harcursor true
(1 GB seemed sufficiently more than the average user would’ve had)
just gave it a gb /shrug).
Now to install the OS ourselves
Grab the Mac OS 9.0.0.toast image from MacintoshGarden
Create a (10gb) disk image with this command
dd if=/dev/zero of=OS9_drive.img bs=1032192 count=10000
Run with --drive OS9_drive.img --cdrom Mac\ OS\ 9.0.0.toast
You’ll get a prompt about formating the drive (I’m glad it’s not running
as root!).
Run through the installer, I added in the japanese language pack under options
Reboot without --cdrom, with --disk OS9_drive.img
You can edit preferences at ~/.sheepsaver_prefs, I suppose sheepshaver
automatically sets it at first run, here are the lines I set myself
hardcursor true
scale_integer true
scale_nearest true
rom /home/djl/doc/emu/mac/newworld86.rom
disk /home/djl/doc/emu/mac/OS9_disk.img
ramsize 1000000000
I still haven’t got networking or sound to work… but I’m going to bed for now ;)
I’ll update this when I get that stuff working
– $ djl@bruce.dlom.cc $ 2024-07-23 11:05 AEST $