XYMer's Home away from Home

I was in the mood for some nostalgia over the weekend, so I figured I'd try to get Phantasmagoria running in Sheepshaver. Now, bear in mind that I have NEVER been able to get SS running reliably. Well, it looks like SS might FINALLY be getting some stable and less buggy builds, because after grabbing the latest one from the forum...lo and behold, it works! Using an early PPC ROM, I got it booting OS 9.04, 8.6, 8.1, and 7.6.1. Phantasmagoria flat-out wouldn't run in 9 or 8.6. 7.6.1 (There was a torrent out there for it!) wouldn't recognize the optical drive. But 8.1 did the trick! Granted, this game was always flaky about whether it wanted to launch or not, but it worked as well as it did on a real classic machine and had no performance issues. I'm kinda stoked. I actually have a functional SS install!

Out of curiosity, does anyone have an older copy of Altivec Fractal Carbon? I don't think Power Fractal will run under OS 9 and I want to get an idea of how fast the emulated PPC is. It boots in less than 5 seconds, so it's pretty darned fast.

I'm not sure if Altivec Fractal Carbon would work in 8.1 or not. The earliest G4s had 8.6 on them, so I'd guess that Altivec support wasn't added to Mac OS until then.

I'm pretty sure this is an OS9 or earlier version...

http://web.fastermac.net/~bdaqua/AltiVe ... Carbon.hqx

I would be using it in the OS 9.04 image, not 8.1.

And thanks BD, that looks like it. 2001 and it actually runs under Snow Leopard! Score is way too low, but I'm surprised it even worked.

Turns out Dauger Research still has the latest OS 9 version. Got it running and landed 341 megaflops. I think that's about the score you'd get on a fast G3, maybe 600-700mhz. Not bad. Now, if Sheepshaver would just support multiple cores to make OS 9 multi-processor...

...nostalgia just ain't what it used to be...

Pfffffft. I'd be happy to just have SheepShaver WORK. Period. I. WANT. MY. WARLORDS.

This latest version crashed as Extensions started to load, twice, next time I held the Shift key down & it booted up & ran, subsequent boots didn't need the Shift Key... no idea what that was because Extension Manager never came up!?