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There are only a small number of preconfigured applications in the Mac OS 9 instance you get this way, and oddly, given how this whole thing started, Appleworks is NOT one of them(!), but you can install more, just as you can with a real Mac OS 9 installation.

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Here is a screen shot of Chubby Bunny running Mac OS 9.0.4 (Mac OS 9.0.4 is the highest version of Mac OS 9 supported by Sheepshaver) on my Mac OS X Mavericks 3.4 GHz 27” iMac (click the image to get the full size screenshot). That’s pretty much it! Launch Classic.app and Mac OS 9 pops up in all its glory. Installing Chubby Bunny is as simple as dropping its executable into your Applications folder (the application is called Classic.app, and it sports the “classic” Classic.app icon – a nice touch) and placing one of the three included disk images into your /Users/Shared folder. There are a LOT of curiously named applications in this post! 🙂 “Chubby Bunny” is a pre-configured version of Sheepshaver, with all of the setup already done. This is where another curiously named package came to the rescue. I won’t comment on the effort required to install and set up Basilisk II – I found the idea of an emulated PowerPC Mac far more attractive than the idea of an emulated 68K Mac. I looked into installing and setting up Sheepshaver on my Intel iMac and quickly found that the number of steps involved, and the amount of work involved in each step, was daunting to say the least. Sheepshaver emulates a PowerPC Macintosh Basilisk II emulates a 68K Macintosh. Sheepshaver is followed closely by the equally oddly named Basilisk II.

The curiously named Sheepshaver application is the best supported Mac emulator currently out there. Installing and setting up either of the two major Mac OS emulators presently available is a bit of a chore. Sounds simple, right? Well, it turns out to be anything but simple. If you have an older Appleworks based document that you need to regain access to, how do you do this if you don’t have an older Mac to facilitate that access? The answer? Run a Mac OS 9 emulator on your modern Mac, install Appleworks into the emulator and then use it to recover full access to the document of interest. The “Appleworks problem” turned out to be fairly easily stated. What WAS “the Appleworks problem” and how DO you solve it? Following links in the comment, I stumbled upon an article about solutions to the “Appleworks problem”. You can find compatible ROM files when you search the web for redundant robot sheepshaver.Recently, a reader of this blog submitted a comment regarding an earlier post.

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After that, I can copy the folder to Snow Leopard's /Application and 6.2.9 updater should be able to install on it. To be able to create a 'working in OS 9' AppleWorks folder, we need OS 9 system and then install AppleWorks 6 on it. Now it's the time we need the OS 6 system. Even if you still have the AppleWorks original installation disc, you can't install it on your Snow Leopard, it pops up a error message saying 'Classic Environment not supported'. The latest AppleWorks 6.2.9 updater can be easily downloaded from Apple, but it needs the original AppleWorks, say Apple Works 6 or 6.2.

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What if your customer just wants to stick with 10.6.8? The earliest OS X version LibreOffice can supports is Lion 10.7, plus your customer loves AppleWorks.

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That's true! You can open it with LibreOffice and even better LibreOffice is free(check out previous post Free Microsoft Office alternatives). It's not a big deal to open those AppleWorks documents. Some people might ask why bother? Well, it's not just because of good old memories like the Windows 95/98 or even before, there are rare cases that your customer has brought in a good iMac but still running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with heaps of old AppleWorks 6 documents.