Hello, all. I am now embarking on the adventure of migrating from my trusty PowerMac with OS 9 and WordPerfect to an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with Snow Leopard...
... The SheepShaver Prefs window expands; the volume.dmg can be put anywhere your user account can write to, e.g. your Home or Shared folders. ... First,...
... I just tried this build, but it bounces once in the dock and quits, which is less successful than the 1/4/08 build in SS-WP 1.1 that at least gets to a...
I am so frustrated by the same things happening over and over again, I am about to drop Wordperfect from my life and get Word for Mac. Does anyone have any...
Ricki, I have Sheepshaver running WordPerfect adequately well but it did take quite a bit of tinkering. I think I have about five different virtual disks from...
Update on my first attempts at SheepShaver: I was originally working with the 10/18/2009 build and the SS-WP 1.1 installation instructions. When I read that...
John, First off, thanks for your help. When Mac OS X 10.6.2's Disk Utility tries to repair the disk it says: Verify and Repair volume “SheepShaver” ...
... This happened on my system after I had opened the Sheepshaver volume.dmg in Mac OS X. I quit Sheepshaver, dragged a new copy of the Sheepshaver.dmg from...
I, too, have an error noted when disk doctor works, showing 0, 0 block problem. Have for years, on several computers. It has never caused a problem. Alexander...
I can no longer get a response from SheepShaver when using my mouse buttons. I work on a MacBook Pro and the behavior is true from both the extenral mouse and...
Going by your "Install ReadMe.pdf", when I double-click the Installer icon the SheepShaver folder is installed properly in my Home folder. But I don't get any...
When trying to install system software after configuring SS (i.e., setting the prefs), I get the message from within SS: "This startup disk will not work on...
... You won't. Originaly the ROM file could only be obtained by reading the ROMs from a real computer. By the time MacOS 9 came out the ROMs were so far out of...
Until John posts his automated installer for SheepShaver, you might want to try this less ambitious system that runs WP in another emulator, Basilisk II. It...
I've updated the installer of my automatically-installed Basilisk II Mac emulator with WPMac installed on the system. The download is still at the same...
Corel Holdings scoops up cash-strapped Corel Corp <http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/ corel_holdings_buys_corel_corp/> Corel was bought out by its...
... Only sort of. Word Perfect was developed by Satellite Software Inc, of Orem Utah. When Word Perfect became their most famous product (does anyone remember...
Does this offer any hopes that they might develop or sell to someone willing to develop an updated WordPerfect for Mac? One can dream! Cydne -- Life is not...
... There hasn't been any hint of this in the news. I would assume that there will be very little in the way of new development for a while until the company...
What are you talking about? When did Microsoft ever give away Word for free? Last I checked it was still over $100 as a stand alone. I know it's pirateable....
Randy: What do you mean by "the premier natural media art program"? "Art" programs (generally) 'fall into' one of three categories: Painting, Drawing, or...
At the beginning. It may have been the first time they did something like that, and the practice ultimately got them in all kinds of hot water. I don't...
