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<H1>Setting up SheepShaver</H1> |
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In the "SheepShaver Settings" window that pops up when you double-click on |
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the SheepShaver icon, you can configure certain features of SheepShaver. |
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When you click on <B>"Start"</B>, the current settings are saved to disk and will be |
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available next time you start SheepShaver. |
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<P>The settings are divided into four groups: Volumes, Graphics/Sound, Serial/Network and Memory/Misc. |
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<H2>Volumes</H2> |
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<P>The main part of the volumes pane is a <B>list</B> that contains all volumes to be mounted |
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by SheepShaver. If this list is empty, SheepShaver will try to detect and mount all HFS partitions |
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it can find. CD-ROM drives are always automatically detected and used. |
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<P>SheepShaver can use HFS partitions, whole HFS formatted drives, and it can also |
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emulate hard disks in single BeOS files ("hardfiles"). |
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<P>To add a Mac volume to the list, mount it on the BeOS side, click on <B>"Add..."</B>, go to the "Disks" |
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level in the topmost popup menu of the file panel, click once on the volume you want and |
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click on "Add". A line beginning with "/dev/disk/" should then appear in the volume list. |
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After adding volumes to the list, you should unmount them on the BeOS side again.To remove |
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a Mac volume, select it in the list and click on <B>"Remove"</B>. |
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<P>You can create a new, empty hardfile by clicking on <B>"Create..."</B>. Enter the file |
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name and the size of the hardfile and click on "Create". The hardfile will be created (this may |
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take some seconds) and added to the volume list. The so-created hardfile will have to be |
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formatted under MacOS before you can store something in it. If you start up SheepShaver, |
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the Finder will display a message about an "unreadable" volume being found and give you the |
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option to format it. |
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<P>Double-clicking on an entry in the volume list will add or remove a "*" in front of the |
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device name. Volumes marked with a "*" are read-only for the MacOS under SheepShaver. |
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<P>SheepShaver will show a "BeOS" disk icon on the Mac desktop that allows access to BeOS |
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files from Mac applications. In <B>"BeOS Root"</B> you specify which BeOS directory will |
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be at the root of this virtual "BeOS" disk. You can enter a path name here or drag and drop a |
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Tracker folder onto it. The default setting of "/boot" means that the "BeOS" icon in the MacOS |
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Finder will correspond to your BeOS boot volume. If you want to access files on other BeOS |
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volumes, you should enter "/" here. The "BeOS" disk will then contain folders for each BeOS |
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volume (among other things). The MacOS will create files and folders like "Desktop", "Trash", |
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"OpenFolderListDF" etc. in the directory you specify as "BeOS Root". If they annoy you, you |
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can delete them. |
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<P>To boot from CD-ROM, set the <B>"Boot From"</B> setting to <B>"CD-ROM"</B>. |
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The <B>"Disable CD-ROM Driver"</B> box is used to disable SheepShaver's built-in CD-ROM driver. |
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This is currently of not much use and you should leave the box unselected. |
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<H2>Graphics/Sound</H2> |
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<P>WIth <B>"Window Refresh Rate"</B> you can set the refresh rate of the MacOS window. |
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Higher rates mean faster screen updates and less "sluggish" behaviour, but also require more CPU time. |
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<P>The <B>"QuickDraw Acceleration"</B> box should always be enabled. It allows for faster graphics in |
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full-screen modes. But if your machine uses the "IXMicro" BeOS video driver, you have to disable the |
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QuickDraw acceleration or full-screen modes won't work (this is because of BeOS bug #981112-032247). |
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<P>The main part of the window is occupied by a list of checkboxes that allows you to select |
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which <B>graphics modes</B> are available for displaying the MacOS desktop. You can, for |
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example, disable the modes that your monitor or graphics card can't display, or disable the |
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window modes when you want to run some Mac programs in full-screen mode that would otherwise |
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erroneously switch to a window mode. The actual mode to be used is selected in the "Monitors" |
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control panel under MacOS. |
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<P>The <B>"Disable Sound Output"</B> box allows you to disable all sound output by SheepShaver. |
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This is useful if the sound takes too much CPU time on your machine or to get rid of warning |
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messages if SheepShaver can't use your audio hardware. |
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<H2>Serial/Network</H2> |
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<P>You can select to which ports the MacOS <B>modem and printer ports</B> are redirected. |
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This doesn't make much sense on a PowerMac, but on a BeBox you can assign the modem |
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and printer ports to any of the four serial ports (or com3/com4) or even parallel ports of |
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the BeBox (useful for printing if you have Mac drivers for parallel printers, like the PowerPrint |
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package from <A HREF="http://www.gdt.com">www.gdt.com</A>). |
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<P>If you don't want SheepShaver's Ethernet support to be enabled for some reason, you |
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can use the <B>"Disable Ethernet"</B> checkbox to disable it (this will also get rid of the annoying |
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"no network hardware" messages if your Mac is not equipped with Ethernet). |
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<H2>Memory/Misc</H2> |
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<P>With <B>"MacOS RAM Size"</B> you select how much RAM will be available to the MacOS |
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(and all MacOS applications running under it). SheepShaver uses the BeOS virtual memory system, |
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so you can select more RAM than you physically have in your machine. The MacOS virtual memory |
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system is not available under SheepShaver (i.e. if you have 32MB of RAM in your computer and |
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select 64MB to be used for MacOS in the SheepShaver settings, MacOS will behave as if it's running on |
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a computer that has 64MB of RAM but no virtual memory). |
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<P>The <B>"Ignore Illegal Memory Accesses"</B> option is there to make some broken Mac |
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programs work that access addresses where there is no RAM or ROM. With this option unchecked, |
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SheepShaver will in this case display an error message and quit. When the option is activated, |
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SheepShaver will try to continue as if the illegal access never happened (writes are ignored, reads |
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return 0). This may or may not make the program work (when a program performs an illegal access, |
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it is most likely that something else went wrong). When a Mac program behaves strangely or hangs, |
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you can quit SheepShaver, uncheck this option and retry. If you get an "illegal access" message, |
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you will know that something is broken. |
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<P>If the <B>"Don't Use CPU When Idle"</B> option is enabled, SheepShaver will try to reduce |
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CPU usage to a minimum when the MacOS is doing "nothing" but waiting for user input. This doesn't |
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work with all programs and it may confuse the timing of some games but in general you should |
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leave it enabled. |
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<P><B>"ROM File"</B> specifies the path name of the Mac ROM file to be used. If it is left |
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blank, SheepShaver expects the ROM file to be called "ROM" and be in the same directory as |
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the SheepShaver application. |
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