Are there any third-party programs to run MacOS 9/Classic applications on Intel Macs?
When Apple made the decision to no longer support MacOS 9/Classic applications, EveryMac.com was hopeful that an easy to install and use commercial application would become available and allow use of legacy applications and documents on the Intel-based Macs. As the market for MacOS 9/Classic compatibility solutions is not growing, and as it has been quite some time since the switch to Intel processors was announced, it seems doubtful that a commercial solution will become available. Software like Parallels Desktop for Mac makes it easy to run Windows on Intel-based Macs, but no such equivalent for MacOS 9 exists. Where the commercial market has failed, the open-source community has made an effort to respond with the oddly titled “SheepShaver”. SheepShaver began life as a MacOS “run-time environment” that made it possible to run MacOS applications within the BeOS. The name itself is a play on “ShapeShifter”, a 68k Mac emulator for the AmigaOS. The hardworking open-source programmers beh
