You can name it whatever you want, such as “Mac OS 9.hfv”, and add the extension HFV. This creates a disk file of that size in the SheepShaver directory. Set the Size to 500 minimum or 1000 (1GB) for more storage.This allows you to access your Windows PC files from within the emulated OS. Once you set everything up, you can run SheepShaver.exe directly. If you try to run SheepShaverGUI.exe without the GTK Runtime files, it will error with “The program can’t start because is missing…” So install these files by running gtk2-runtime-2.24.10-ash.exe.The Mac checks to see if the ISO is read only and errors if it is not. Make the Apple MacOS 9.0.4.ISO file read only: Right mouse click > Properties > Read Only.Copy the Apple MacOS 9.0.4.ISO file to the SheepShaver directory.It creates a Apple Mac OS 9.0.4.ISO file.

Use 7zip to unzip the Apple Mac OS 9.0.4.7z file.

Rename the newworld86.rom to “Mac OS ROM” with no extension.

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