Disable the “Update hard disk drivers” box in the Options sections of the Mac OS 9 installer or the installer will hang (this is mentioned in the setup guide but I managed to miss it the first time around).
It defaults to assigning 16MB of RAM to the created virtual machine, be sure to increase it to something more than 32MB.
EAZYDRAW UPDATE INSTALL
Follow the SheepShaver setup guide to install Mac OS 9 and set up a shared directory with your Mac.
Download the Mac OS 9.0.4 installer image from Macintosh Repository (SheepShaver doesn’t work with anything newer).
Download the full New World ROMs archive from Macintosh Repository, extract it, rename the - Mac OS ROM 1.1.rom file to Mac OS ROM and drop it into the SheepShaver folder.
You need an official “Mac OS ROM” file that’s come from a real Mac or been extracted from the installer.
EAZYDRAW UPDATE ZIP FILE
Download the latest SheepShaver and the “SheepShaver folder” zip file from the emaculation forums.
Fortunately, there’s a Mac OS 9 emulator called SheepShaver that came to the rescue. I originally started out with my Power Mac G4 that I’ve posted about previously but unfortunately it seems like the power supply is on the way out, and it kept shutting down (people have apparently had success resurrecting these machines using ATX power supplies but I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet). The very first hurdle was getting access to Mac OS 9 to begin with. I ended up going down quite the rabbit hole in getting set up to bring them forwards into a modern readable format, and figured I’d document it here in case it helps anyone in future. This was all in 1996 and very early 1997, I even still have all the old files sitting in my home folder with the original creation dates and everything, but didn’t have anything that could open them as they were a combination of ancient Microsoft Word writings - old enough that Pages didn’t recognise them - and ClarisWorks drawing documents - ClarisWorks had a vector-based drawing component to it as well as word processing. Prior to building way too many websites, I’d been introduced to the Warhammer 40,000 and Dune universes when I was 13 and had immediately proceed to totally rip them off get inspired and write my own little fictional universe along the same lines. The only one missing is the very very first one… The Dire Marsh news updates are from early 1998, but I’d copied most of the layout from the previous site as evidenced by the (broken) visitor at the left that says “ half-crazed Myth fanatics have visited this site since 21/12/97”. I finally got around to doing that over the weekend, and they’re all up on ! Some are the original HTML source, some are just the Photoshop mockups, but that now contains the almost sum total of every single website I’d created (and there’s a lot of them). Three years ago I posted about how I’d gone back and recovered all my old websites I’d published over the years and packed them up into a Docker image, and last year I’d idly mused that I should go back and recover the multitude of websites that I’d designed but never actually uploaded anywhere.