SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

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  1. infinite-mac

    A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want

    Those are all really old builds. Strongly recommend one of the following alternatives:

    - On Mac or Linux, building version 3.6 from the SourceForge repo (r1603 is a good revision): https://sourceforge.net/projects/previous/

    - Using one of my Windows builds from here: http://rhetori.ca/next/

    - If you just want to gawk, see the WASM port here: https://infinitemac.org/ (also WASM ports of Basilisk II, SheepShaver, Mini vMac, and PearPC)

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. macintosh.js

    🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry.

  4. SoftDorothy-CasadyGreeneProjects

    Disk images (intended for emulators) containing code and tools for building the early Casady & Greene commercial games.

    I love playing with SheepShaver (and BasiliskII and MinivMac).

    I created disk images for the various 68K/PPC Mac emulators that have not just my early game sources but the compilers, tools to compile and build them (if you're into that sort of thing).

    The commercial games are here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-CasadyGreene...

    But I have a repo with the shareware games and two more repos of games that were never completed (and probably a third one coming when I get time to put it together). They're easy enough to find if you're interested with the above link as a starting point.

  5. UTM

    Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

    > I would love to see an emulator that could run later OS versions like Tiger.

    UTM.

    https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

  6. dingusppc

    An experimental emulator

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