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Old March 13th, 2007, 03:08 PM
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Is there a way to have a virtual Power PC on my intel mac so that I can run classic versions of Mac os?
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Old March 13th, 2007, 03:11 PM
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There's a project called SheepShaver that will allow you to do this. However, you need a valid PowerPC Macintosh ROM for it to work.

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/sheepshaver/
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Getting SheepShaver to actually work is quite a chore. This tutorial should make it a lot easier: http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/08/7352/
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