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. SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator.
