Field notes on Mac OS 9.2, New World ROMs, and Apple Silicon

🫧 Open on Bubbles SheepShaver is a legendary Mac OS emulator (fast, compatible, beloved), but it cannot boot Mac OS 9.2. Iirc, you can coax it to run 9.2 through hacks , but you still won't get all the features. I really wanted SheepShaver + 9.2 back in the early 2000s. Twenty-five years on, it is still a nope. You can use QEMU (on Apple Silicon, UTM is the best practical option for 9.2.2 today), but that is not SheepShaver, and you can feel it when using it. What I still want is SheepShaver's particular tr