I keep SheepShaver around for the times I need to access old CDs or disk images, and occasionally WordPerfect for Mac files (I learned of Edward Mendelson’s excellent work from the WordPerfectMac Group). However, instead of manually configuring SheepShaver and installing classic MacOS, it’s much faster to download Edward Mendelson’s pre-packaged system which includes everything ready to run as a single application (now universal for Intel and Apple Silicon). The software is cross-platform and can be used on a variety of operating systems. That said, since both are RISC-based processors, someone might make some sort of compatibility layer for it, but I highly doubt it. It runs natively on systems with a PowerPC processor, and can emulate a PowerPC processor on systems without one. While I do not know for 100 certainty, I do not think there is a way to run PPC code on an M1 ARM chip. SheepShaver builds for Mac OS X, links and downloads - E-Maculation SheepShaver is an open source runtime environment which virtualizes a PowerPC -based Macintosh computer. NOTE: If you are using a mac with the Apple M1 chips please see the. Current builds of SheepShaver are listed here: For others, theres SheepShaver, a PowerPC emulator capable of running Mac OS 9. Instead of requiring gigabytes of space for a MacOS X installation, the entire emulator+OS will likely come in at around 1 gigabyte. This will probably be a lot faster, and it is relatively lightweight. Sadly, neither of these options is very convenient if you just want to read a few files from a CD-ROM or a CD image.Ī third option which might give the most faithful view of a Mac OS Standard/HFS filesystem is to use SheepShaver, which emulates a PowerPC Mac running classic MacOS (and allows copying files to the modern Mac host). Note that hfsutils does not actually mount the volume like a normal file system, but does provide a command-line mechanism to walk through a volume and read/copy files. Use the open source hfsutils software package. Mount the ISO file or optical disc from there. Install macOS 10.14 or older in a virtual machine or an emulator.
If you need to access the content of an HFS volume on Catalina or later, there are two options I can think of: Starting with 10.15 (Catalina), HFS volumes are not mountable at all. Support was officially dropped in macOS 10.12 (Sierra), but unofficially kept working until 10.14 (Mojave). Disk Utility says it’s formatted as Mac OS Standard, so maybe Big Sur (or Catalina, I didn’t try it there) dropped support for Mac OS Standard?īingo! “Mac OS Standard” is Apple’s name for the old HFS (not HFS+) file system.Īpple started the process of dropping HFS support in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) - volumes could only be mounted read-only.
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