Apple’s OS6 was like Fort Knox compared to that piece of “crapware”. I swear you could’ve hit the screen with a feather and the whole system would crash.
I’d have to do a full system reboot to get everything working.
In 1992 I was the only person in the office who had any experience with computers and every Friday when our receptionist was doing a backup the system would spectacularly crash. Now that was a dog of an OS…oblique and unstable. However it was far more stable than Microsoft’s 3.1 (which was better than 3.0). Ah the early days of “desktop” computing…minefields, problems and OS6. I phoned my head teacher and explained what happened (in a panic) and she immediately understood what was going on.
Then there was the time when OS6x decided to delete half of my overheads for a class that I was teaching that evening.
I still remember trying to work out how to eject the OS floppy after it got stuck in the drive on my Mac Plus. The interface is like a step back in time. The name of the emulator is a reference to ShapeShifter, a Mac II emulator for AmigaOS. Builds based on those contributions are listed on this site and in the SheepShaver forum.
Development at that time was driven by Gwenole Beauchesne, who ported the emulator to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.īeauchesne suspended his work on SheepShaver in April of 2008, although volunteers have contributed bug fixes and features since that time. In 2002, following the commercial decline of Be, SheepShaver was released as an open-source application. At that time, SheepShaver was a commercial product developed by Christian Bauer. SheepShaver began life in 1998 as a MacOS emulator for BeOS. SheepShaver is considered a good replacement for the Classic Environment which is not available in the most recent versions of Mac OS X….
Builds of SheepShaver are available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Using SheepShaver (along with the appropriate ROM image) it is possible to emulate a PowerPC Macintosh computer capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4. Your users will thank you.SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator. And the emulators are free! So get testing already. In addition to providing current device emulation, they also provide a way to test on previous OS versions. Platform emulators provide a great way to really test your web applications without buying "a metric shit-tonne" of devices. You can visit the URL below to see the available keyboard commands. Many of the functions, like screen rotation, require hidden keyboard shortcuts. It will take a good amount of time to launch, and the emulator itself feels slow in practice.
The Android emulator is relatively easy to use, albeit, missing some features. Holding down OPTION while click-dragging simulates two-finger pinch (not available in the Android emulator). It features menu options for switching device types and simulating events like shakes, rotation, and more. You could even modify the workflow to prompt the user for the appropriate AVD before launching it. change my_avd references to My_New_AVD), duplicate the workflow, and save it as its own app. Then navigate through this folder structure:Īt this point you can edit the BamAndroid.workflow file to point to the new AVD (e.g. Once installed, if you simply want direct access to the simulator, right click on the Xcode application and choose "Show package contents". You can download Xcode from the Mac App Store. How to Test iOSĪpple provides a free developer app named Xcode, which allows users to build, test, and profile their apps. If you have Mac running OS X 10.6 or later, you can use emulation to try out a great number of variations of the two dominant platforms. So instead of calling all of your friends to look at your new website project on their phones, I bring good news. Even though there are currently two dominant mobile platforms (iOS and Android) whose web browsers are based on Webkit, it's still nearly impossible to have all of the mobile devices your audience may be using. Mobile browser testing is not only tedious and awkward, it presents a unique problem: access.
One of the banes of a web developer's existence is browser testing.